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Disruption rules.

Today, every industry is experiencing disruption at some level. Business leaders must keep pace — often looking to the CIO and IT

organization to bring technical innovations to the table.

Business leaders want fast solutions and true partnership. If your team can’t deliver, they’ll build it themselves or buy it externally.

Business Wants:Speed and Partnership

“More than 25 percent of overall IT spend is controlled by or managed outside the IT

organization for 19 percent of CIOs surveyed.”

— Harvey Nash CIO Survey 2015

If IT can’t provide what the business wantsor give an equally viable option, the businesswill purchase solutions externally.

Business Wants:Choice

Business users expect technology to stay outof the way of work. They want to pick upa device to get to their data — easilyand securely.

Business Wants:Simplicity + Security

Exceedingly complex systems have put CIOsin a bind. Chief Information Officer issometimes equated to Chief InfrastructureOfficer. You know you need to deliveron consumer-like experiences thatwill make the business flow.How do you do it?

From Infrastructureto Innovation

Become the ChiefInnovationOfficer.

It’s the Cloud Economy.

You can clear the way to innovation with a software-defined approach, or cloud economics.

Realize its benefits in four key ways.

Separating applications from the underlyinginfrastructure (compute, storage, and networking) lets you keep the entire network-distributed application together in a segment. As a result, you can move and deploy it without having to tinker with its internal configuration from a networking perspective.

Cloud Economics:Virtualization

With applications in virtual segments — whether that segment is a virtual machine, a virtual network, or a virtual storage type — you radically simplify the number of different types of things that must be managed in your data center.

Cloud Economics:Simplified Management

Instead of needing to automate the life of 3, 4, or 5,000 different applications, you need to automate the lifecycle of only a few segment types. And by automating the lifecycle of an individual segment, you can automate the lifecycle of all the applications you put into that segment.

Cloud Economics:Automation

Once the application — and all that goes with it — is separate from the infrastructure, you can choose to run it in the cloud. That cloud doesn’t have to be a private cloud or a public cloud. You can deploy a hybrid cloud for flexibility and manage it as a single, unified cloud, using the same people, processes, and tool sets.

Cloud Economics:Choice

Why software-defined?

The simplification realized by the software-defined approach gets you closer to what you want IT to be: self-service, instantly provisioned,

pay per use, elastic, and cost-efficient. It also frees up IT budget to be redirected to innovation that will drive your businesses’ top-line growth.

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