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A Breakthrough in Service Delivery for Data Center Workloads
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This event is now available on-demand.
Original air date: June 25, 2009
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Success on the new smarter planet demands reduced cost of ownership, more collaboration, higher profitability and increased reinvestment into your IT infrastructure. Transforming the data center into a cloud infrastructure can lower the cost of data center service delivery and improve service levels.
Our clients are increasingly recognizing the need for a cloud computing solution but tell us that deploying one is time consuming and expensive. IBM is responding by helping companies like yours transform data centers into Dynamic Infrastructures with cloud computing quickly and cost-effectively to reduce costs, manage risk, and improve service quality.
Join IBM on Thursday, June 25 at 11:00 am ET for a complimentary webcast in which we will reveal a new offering that can sustain ongoing cost reduction while improving service levels over the long term.
After the June 25th webcast, you'll receive a complimentary "Cloud Computing Starter Kit," which will include new analyst reports, client testimonial videos, a demo and more!
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Vice President of Marketing, Service Management and Tivoli Software
IBM Corporation
Doug is the Vice President of Marketing for the Tivoli brand of the Software Group at IBM. He was named to this position in December, 2007.
His most recent previous assignment was Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Marketing Programs for the IBM Software Group. Prior to that he was Vice President of Infrastructure Solutions Marketing for IBM, an initiative that integrated marketing among three of IBM’s business units; Global Technology Services, Systems Technology Group and Software Group. Doug has also held other executive marketing positions in IBM’s Software Group including Vice President of Product Marketing for the WebSphere brand, Vice President of Industry Solutions Marketing and Director of Product Marketing for the WebSphere process integration product line. Prior to these IBM Software Group roles, Doug held IBM marketing leadership positions in industry marketing with concentration in financial services.
Doug joined IBM in 1980 as a systems engineer in Richmond, Virginia. He has held various sales and sales management positions with specialization in serving large enterprise clients.
Doug holds a BS in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He served three years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps before beginning his career at IBM.
Doug resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Urban League. He is currently the President of the Parents Association Board of Directors at Bucknell University.
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Vice President of Strategy and Market Management, Tivoli Software
IBM Corporation
Chris O’Connor is the Vice President of Strategy and Market Management for the Tivoli brand within IBM Software Group. He has been active in the IT Industry for the past 20 years both within IBM and at other industry software providers. His team’s mission is to direct the end to end Tivoli product portfolio strategy and investment composition. This responsibility includes directly measuring worldwide market capabilities and also directly supporting customer adoption with an advanced technology team. His team is composed of expertise from around the world of key leaders from IBM, its recent acquisitions and the industry.
Mr. O'Connor also plays a lead role in advancing IBM's green and energy conservation product strategy and offerings, to which IBM has committed a $1 billion annual investment. He leads "Software for a Greener World" which includes offerings from each of the key IBM software brands, including Tivoli, Information Management, WebSphere, Lotus and Rational.
Previously within Tivoli, Mr. O’Connor led the Availability, Application and Business Service Management development organization, building monitoring, transaction management, event management and service management software. This also included architecting the acquisition of Collation, Candle and the Micromuse Corporations. As an IBM executive, Mr. O’Connor has previously led the IBM Company’s product security strategy, and led networking hardware and software development, design and market management positions.
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 | | Don Thomas
Offering Manager, Cloud Services, Global Technology Services
IBM Corporation
Don has over 22 years of technical and management experience in the high technology industry and has been at IBM since 2000. In his current assignment, Don is the Market Offering Manager for the IBM Global Technology Services Middleware Services team, specializing in Cloud services, Service Management and SOA. He currently manages the IBM Implementation Services for Cloud Computing, CloudBurst and WebSphere Portal offerings. Don is ITIL certified and brings his experience in data center operations to the cloud computing environment, coupling the flexibility of the cloud paradigm with solid service management processes and principles.
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