Sponsor: Cisco Systems
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Milind Govekar, Christopher Kenessey
Type: Video (34 minutes)
Automating job scheduling is a requirement in today's complex data center environments. But there are challenges. The integration between IT applications, databases and file sharing platforms using only their native tools or using systems-based schedulers must be custom coded or left undone. Neither scenario is optimal: Custom integrations are time consuming, error prone and need constant maintenance and revisions. Leaving integrations undone forces the data center operations team to manually manage complex job scheduling workloads - increasing the risk for errors and expensive downtime. Both of these choices are a real threat to the quality of your service levels.
A planned approach to job scheduling and workload automation-leveraging a holistic view of the entire enterprise with its multi-application, multi-system, heterogeneous computing environments - not only eliminates these risks and inefficiencies, but reaches across diverse environments to deliver an integrated service delivery platform.
Gartner Research Vice President, Milind Govekar and Director of Worldwide Sales for Cisco's Intelligent Automation Business Unit, Christopher Kenessey examine the reasons behind the longevity of job schedulers, the role of adapters in the modern data center, how system events factor into enterprise scheduling, and what the future holds for job scheduling. They also offer expert advice on where you can turn to meet your enterprise job scheduling needs.
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About Christopher Kenessey, Director of Worldwide Operations, IABU, Cisco Systems
As Director of Worldwide Sales for Cisco's Intelligent Automation Business Unit, Christopher Kenessey is responsible for building global sales operations and delivering Cisco's industry-leading Automation solutions to market. Prior to Cisco, he was Worldwide Vice President of Sales at Tidal Software as well as Managing Director of EMEA Operations based out of the United Kingdom.
Prior to his international assignment, Christopher was Vice President of Sales for the Americas and was responsible for the overall sales function. Christopher has also held several operational roles that have directly impacted sales, product development and customer satisfaction. Before joining the company, he held various positions at Compuware and Platinum Technology. Christopher holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus.
About Milind Govekar, Research VP, Gartner
Milind Govekar is a research vice president with Gartner Research. He is part of the virtualization and cloud infrastructure service, with a focus on cloud computing management, workload automation, application management, performance and capacity management, IT financial management technology, and IT service management.
Mr. Govekar has more than 25 years of experience working in the IT industry in management and technical positions for end-user organizations and software companies. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Govekar worked as a design authority for the electricity deregulation project in the United Kingdom, where he covered a wide range of areas, including aligning and certifying IT processes with business processes and IT infrastructure management. He has experience in managing IT operations and software projects, and in developing IT strategies. He has worked in systems management, account management, consulting and systems support, as well as in developing communication and commercial software.
