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Beyond the Data Center - Virtualizing your remote and distributed IT workloads

Most organizations have a significant percentage of the company's workloads and hardware running in close proximity to their end user. Examples include: sales offices; customer retail stores, restaurants and banking branches; and service locations such as supply chain distribution centers and warehouses.
Physical servers and desktops residing outside the data center have traditionally been hard to manage, difficult to protect and costly to maintain. Many of these workloads are in fact very 'customer critical' due to the transparency of any failures and unavailability to the end users, even though they have never been considered Tier 1 applications.
Virtualization's benefits of cost savings, increased availability, and simplified provisioning are not limited to traditional data center workloads. It is rapidly transforming the way organizations manage these distributed, fringe, or edge workloads and locations.
How can your organization extend virtualization beyond the data center, and gain increased visibility and control over IT resources in remote locations? How can Virtualization help rapidly deploy new servers and desktops in the form of virtual machines in minutes and scale to the growing needs of your remote and branch offices in a cost-effective manner? How can I build a business case and cost model for Virtualizing remote facilities?
This Customer Panel will review the challenges, requirements, and benefits of adopting virtualization for your remote offices. We will share considerations for centralization of workloads, guidance on connectivity and backup, and fail-over options, and how to formulate a business case and cost model for virtualization of your remote workloads.

Technology & Architecture

Panel Session

Data Center, remote, workloads, connectivity, backup, fail-over

1 Hour

Mariano Maluf, IT Architect, Home Depot
Michael Kollar, Chief Architect, Siemens