Making Sense of the Next Generation Government Data Center and Migration to the Cloud Conference

In today's data center, the rapid growth of compute capacity and increased data volume demand a high-performance and scalable data center network infrastructure.  Unfortunately, the complexity and inflexibility of today's legacy data center network architectures inhibit scalability.  And data center managers are under constant pressure to meet ever-tighter budgets, comply with new regulations, provide access to more resources, improve utilization rates, and deliver transparency.

Some government agencies are leveraging virtualization and convergence technologies to improve server and storage utilization and increase operational efficiency to gain business agility and drive costs down.   And while "modern data centers" continue to evolve, government agencies cannot afford to sit idly by as the computing demands and network requirements continue to grow exponentially especially with the administrations Cloud First Policy.

This half-day event discussed how to achieve a fundamental improvement in both user experience and economics for the next-generation data center, by eliminating complexity through collapsing the data center network into a more economically efficient, dynamic, and easier to manage any-to-any connectivity system.

Attendees who participated:

• Explored the fundamentals of the Next Generation Data Center and how it can benefit government agencies both now and in the future
• Discussed where data centers need to go, what the most effective models are, and how to make a seamless transition in a cost-effective way
• Reviewed tools available to seamlessly migrate workloads from physical to virtual machines while maintaining existing security policies to ensure compliance

Executive Insight Interview

Read DGI's Executive Insight Interview with Mark Medovich, Director of Business Development, Next Generation Infrastructure, Juniper Networks, on the next generation government data center.  Mark was the speaker at the conference session on The Vision and Benefits of the Next Generation Government Data Center.

What Attendees Enjoyed Most

... about the event:

• "Addressing the status of where many agencies are and realistic benefits of visualization by level of security."
• "Presentation of practical approach to moving to cloud."
• "Speakers were very informative, presented good data to audience."
• "Enjoyed the subject matter of topics on Data Centers and what the future of Data Centers are going to become."
• "Knowledgeable speakers, very informative. They kept presentation interesting."
• "The opportunity to hear different perspectives from interesting leaders currently engaged in dealing with the issues of Cloud Computing."
• "Very Well run. Smooth, intelligent speakers and topics."