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For instance, Ashish Khanna, Corporate Manager-IT Infrastructure, The key objective of the convex EIH Ltd., said, “Inflexion was to find answers to four 2013 is a very nice concept important questions that are which invites IT leaders and top-of-the-mind for technolbusiness leaders together to ogy professionals. brainstorm on a particular They included: topic. What do business leaders This year’s theme on want? * How can technology ‘Cloud: The Easy Next Step’ deliver what your business has given a lot of insights needs? * How do you choose to CIOs and has answered and implement the right many unanswered questions technologies? * How do you from OEMS directly. take a leadership position The key takeaway was in both professional and to help in identifying areas personal spaces? where the Cloud can help The convex attempted to and fulfill our business capture various perspectives needs.” on the Cloud through According to Khanna, workshops, hands-on sessions the convex addressed many on how to get things done, key concerns around cloud Buyer’s Meet, opportunity computing like: Security to participate in one-on-one practices, Opting model, sessions with technology which is Private vs. Public or vendors to find cloud hybrid cloud, Maintaining solutions to specific business compliance and audit while needs, Leadership sessions using public cloud, Cloud - with industry leaders and vendor selection strategy. experts sharing their best Khanna feels assured of practices, CEO Debate – where the fact that both private and business heads shared their public clouds are very easy views and thoughts on what to deploy but it is dependent they expected from the Cloud on application compatibility and how it would impact their and migration strategy, business models. which determine the ease Ashish Khanna of deployment. Cloud Handbook Corporate Manager-IT Infrastructure, EIH Ltd Inadequate maturity of The IT Next team embarked vendors on this technology on a cover feature, ‘Cloud and lack of standard computing handbook,’ based frameworks available for on the messages and perspecdeploying and managing cloud are major deterrents in cloud tives that each of the speakers brought to light, and on the technology deployment in any organisation. next easy steps to the Cloud in their own understanding. He believed that cloud deployment in any organisation The story gleans insights from CEOs of IT companies debatshould be a journey and the enterprise must start small ing on the Cloud and its offerings to stakeholders, the Keyand first deploy non critical applications on the cloud and note speaker’s perspective on the Cloud and why customers then move critical applications. The high performance should adopt the Cloud, how the Government is encouraging intensive applications should be taken at the end. and implementing working cloud models to empower the cit“A standard framework is a must for organisations to guide izens of the country, and the cloud leadership Awards which them about a methodological approach of moving to the was given to IT teams for having implemented successful Cloud; in case of non-satisfaction with the existing vendor, cloud models within their enterprise. it will also guide organisations on how to separate from this vendor and move to a new vendor without user disturbance”, Key Takeaway points Khanna. Senior IT executives had useful takeaways from the Convex.
“The convex addressed many key concerns around cloud computing like: Security practices, Opting model, which is Private vs. Public etc., and also vendor selection”
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