Green Storage Journal

Everyone is virtualizing, but are they realizing any of the promised savings? This overview of IBM's new virtualization optimization solutions will show you how integrated Cloud Solutions like SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can deliver the savings virtualization promises.

Organizations are using intelligent management and analytics to provide the insight needed to optimize their virtualized infrastructure and dramatically improve availability, reduce data storage footprints and streamline patch management. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], IBM's Dan Carr will review lessons learned from real-world experience.

Speaker Bio:
Dan Carr is an Executive IT Architect in IBM Software Group’s Cloud Computing Client Engagement team. In this role, he works across the globe with a number of large enterprise and government organizations to implement first-of-a kind Cloud Computing solutions. Using his customer experiences, he works closely with IBM’s product groups providing direction for IBM Cloud software and services portfolio.

He has over twenty years of experience working across a number of industries including: Internet, Financial Services, Utilities, Automotive, Telecommunications, and Consumer Products. His technology delivery experience spans both infrastructure and application architecture areas with a focus over the last three years on emerging Cloud Computing technologies.

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