Three Executives to Participate in Four Panels Over Two Days
Nov. 2, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that three executives in the company's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit will participate in four panel discussions at Interop. The business technology conference will be held in New York November 16-20, 2009.
Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy, will participate in a discussion entitled "Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer?" on Wednesday, November 18 at 4 p.m. ET. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates.
The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly 75
percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo, and
that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don't make
some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new
value-added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both
improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made
only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of losing control
over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit
functionality IT organizations can safely automate.
Elliot will also participate in a panel entitled "The People, Process And Technology Of Next Generation Data Centers" on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. ET. Following is summary of the session, which will be moderated by Doug Washburn, analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research.
Technologies like virtualization and automation tools are cornerstone
to the next-generation data center (NGDC)--but without the proper
processes and staff skills to manage them, tomorrow's data center will
be no better off than today's. Likewise, even the right people and
process fall short without sufficient technology investment that can
minimize labor-intensive tasks. With that in mind, the NGDC is a
collection of people, process and technology that support one another.
This panel discussion will identify the key people, process and
technology considerations to help data center managers plan for the
NGDC today.
Derick Wong, senior director of product marketing, will participate in a discussion entitled "The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation" on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m.
