Predictive Change Management For Utility Computing By Assaf Levy, Onaro, Inc.
•White Paper: Change Management For Utility Computing
Utility computing promises to bring new efficiencies to organizations by providing on-demand applications, computational power and storage to business units. The flexibility and efficiencies that will be derived from the dynamic allocation of resources promise to generate competitive advantages and reduce IT costs.
Establishing the successful delivery of utility computing depends on the control and reach of the storage networking environment. The most critical component in this process is the management of the storage area network (SAN). SANs facilitate data center and organizational consolidation, and if they're well-managed, can also supply the infrastructure to support dynamic storage changes through centralized storage practices and control.
Utility computing's on-demand delivery of applications cannot take place without an underlying storage networking infrastructure in which:
- Changes can be made quickly and accurately.
- There is full control over the change process to attain 100 percent availability of the SAN during any change, for example, adding a switch or reconfiguring a server.
•White Paper: Change Management For Utility Computing
Assaf Levy has more than 15 years of experience in market-driven product and
software development management. As co-founder and vice president of
product management for Onaro, Inc., he works closely with customers,
partners and Onaro Sales and Field operations to assure that Onaro's
innovative "roadmap" for product expansion meets market demands.Prior to co-founding Onaro, Mr. Levy served at Algotec Systems, a software firm acquired by Eastman Kodak, where he was responsible for Algotec's OEM alliances with Toshiba and other Japanese firms, and for relationships with U.S. customers and vendors. Previously, Mr. Levy initiated and managed the product requirements and development of several products at Algotec, including solutions for image distribution, archival and integration.