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David Deakin

The IT journey to “Anything” as a Service

 

The concept of “Anything as a service” is becoming more of a reality as more infrastructure, services and applications shift to the cloud. While this new service delivery model offers many potential benefits and opportunities, IT managers must first address the implications and any challenges of moving IT into the cloud. This practical session will outline three key steps that IT managers can consider on the journey to ‘anything as a service’ within their organisation.

  • Foundation: Firstly, it’s critical to establish the technology building blocks for the organisation. How do you get started?
  • Transformation: Secondly, transitioning to this new IT environment requires many disparate systems clouds to be linked seamlessly, particularly as most organisations move to hybrid cloud environments. What do you need to consider as part of this transformation?
  • Enablement: Finally, for anything as a service to translate into tangible benefits, IT managers will need to review their IT operation. How can you leverage cloud to change the delivery of IT services internally within the organisation, and services outside the organisation?

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David Deakin's Biography 

David Deakin is Group Manager, Data Centre and Cloud Solutions at Optus Business. The group’s focus is to provide organisations with next generation on-premise, off-premise and hybrid cloud technologies that can help reduce cost, optimise performance and improve service levels while enabling greater access to data centre infrastructure. A 20 year veteran of the IT industry, David has a broad range of IT skills and expertise, ranging from engineering, sales, project management, principal architect to practice and group management across multiple technologies. David holds industry accreditation through SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), TOGAF and Enterprise Architecture Framework) and ITIL.