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Achieving a Real-Time Infrastructure with Application Virtualization Achieving a Real-Time Infrastructure with Application Virtualization Sponsor: DataSynapse,
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
The future of business is agility. Companies must be able to adapt to new market conditions, new technologies, new regulations, and new customer expectations. A key element of this transformation is real-time infrastructure. Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders at DataSynapse Inc., as they examine real-time infrastructure and the rising influence of application virtualization. > What are the benefits of real-time infrastructure? > What are the challenges of real-time infrastructure, and how do you overcome them? > How will real-time infrastructure enhance your business continuity efforts? To find out the answers to these questions, watch this new program now. What can application virtualization do for you? Here is just a sampling. 1. Application virtualization decouples applications from the highly inefficient dedicated data center infrastructure 2. Application virtualization aggregates and allocates server capacity on demand 3. Application virtualization automates service level management, which allows for a radical improvement in application performance Want to learn more about application virtualization and its effect on real-time infrastructure? Watch this program now. ********** About Donna Scott Donna Scott is a vice president, distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. She is responsible for real-time infrastructure, business availability and business continuity/disaster recovery at Gartner. She focuses on best practices for IT operations management and architecture, end-to-end IT service management and 24x7 availability. Prior to her career in research, Ms. Scott spent 10 years in management consulting, managing medium- to large-scale business process engineering and business application implementations, including enterprise resource planning and financial systems. I love my job for many reasons, but most notably the intellectual stimulation and the client interaction, and knowing that I provide value to our clients. Years of Experience 10 years with Gartner 24 years in IT industry Professional Background DH Brown Associates, Research Director, 3 years Ernst & Young, Senior Manager, Consulting, 9 years Interactive Information Systems, ERP Software Trainer, 3 years Education B.S., Applied Science, cum laude, Miami University M.B.A., University of Bridgeport About Peter Y. Lee Peter Lee co-founded DataSynapse in March of 2000. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lee leads the strategy and operations for the company. Prior to founding DataSynapse, Mr. Lee served as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Lee has worked on a wide range of capital markets and investment banking transactions based in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, where he built and managed the firm's Asia Pacific Telecom/ Media/ Technology investment banking group. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Lee worked in the Strategic Planning Group of Deloitte & Touche International. Mr. Lee holds a joint MBA/MA degree from The Wharton School/Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in Entrepreneurial Management/International Affairs, and earned an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University. Mr. Lee has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Outstanding Asian-Americans in Business” awards. About John Nallin John Nallin is the former Vice President of UPS Information Services responsible for Business Continuity, Corporate Repositories, Technical Architecture and Customer Technology for UPS worldwide. Prior to his retirement in March 2007, Mr. Nallin was co-chair of the UPS Information Technology Governance Committee, which oversees the direction of UPS technology and aligns it with the company's business vision and strategy. UPS invested $16 billion in technology during John’s career, which began in 1987 as Systems Manager for Delivery Information Systems. During his tenure with UPS, Mr. Nallin was instrumental in providing the technical expertise and leadership to build UPS’s technology infrastructure, application development, billing and airline systems, customer-facing technologies, telecommunications, and many other aspects of our IT organization. Mr. Nallin has more than 30 years of experience in the field of information technology. He began his career at AT&T as an engineering associate and managed a data center while proudly serving in the United States Marine Corps. He studied business administration and computer science at Seton Hall and Rutgers universities and held management positions with Asbach Consulting, American Cyanamid and Tenneco Chemicals prior to joining UPS. About Ryan Bagnulo Ryan Bagnulo has been in the IT industry for 14 years. For the past year Mr. Bagnulo has been the lead SOA Enterprise Application Architect, Utility Computing and Security IT Architect for the technology division of Wachovia Corporate and Investment Banking. Mr. Bagnulo is focused on building mass-customized and rapidly consumable, secure, highly performant and best-of-breed virtualized server runtime solutions, that integrate high performance computing grids of compute resources with thin and thick clients, rich internet application (RIA) environments via the CIB Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Mediation Framework of services. Mr. Bagnulo works for the CTO of Wachovia CIBT, and is focused on building solutions that are consumed by each CIB business line, including Global Capital Markets (e.g. Equities, FX, Structured Products, Credit Lending, Vertical Mortgage Integration), CIB International (e.g. LoCs, DDA, IFTs/SWIFT), Credit Risk and Treasury Services business lines. Prior to joining Wachovia Mr. Bagnulo was the chief security and infrastructure architect for the Business Transformation Outsourcing division of IBM Global Services, and was the leader of the IBM Global Services Grid Computing Community of Practice.
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