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Optimising current and future data centre investments

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 27 May 2016

ITWeb Data Centre Summit 2016

Meet Mai Moodley at the ITWeb Data Summit 2016 at The Forum, Bryanston on Wednesday 20 July 2016 and chat to him about his thoughts revisiting the value proposition of data centres. For the most up-to-date agenda, click here. To register, click here.

As organisations contemplate both their use of and their investments in data centres, it becomes necessary to unravel the hype from the factors that do impact on the value proposition presented by them.

So says Mai Moodley, head of department for financial systems and processes at the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), who will be presenting on 'Revisiting the value proposition of Data Centre's at the ITWeb Data Centre Summit 2016 on 20 July at The Forum in Bryanston.

According to him, as data centres grow in popularity, an element of data centre consolidation will inevitably arise. "Coupled with the potential of data centre consolidation is the need to accommodate the growth in data, and big data."

At the same time, the extent to which bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon has increased the demands which CIOs have to address as part of promoting the 'always-on, always available' alignment between IT and the lines of business, becomes a factor.

Because of this, Moodley says there is a need to drive more value out of the company's IT expenditure that is compelling CIOs to re-look at what other benefits, beyond potential savings, can be delivered through their data centres.

Mai Moodley, head of department for financial systems and processes at the State Information Technology Agency.
Mai Moodley, head of department for financial systems and processes at the State Information Technology Agency.

In his presentation, Moodley will be looking at the variables which critically impact on an organisation being able to successfully unlock the value proposition of data centres. "As part of this presentation, I will also be examining the conditions which an organisation needs to actively manage in order to optimise their current investments in data centres."

Delegates attending his talk can expect to have an understanding of the factors that affect how they optimise their own data centres and what factors should be considered when evaluating how to optimise their current and future data centre investments.

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