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FOUR CLOUD INSIGHTS FROM LIGHT READING’S BIG TELECOM EVENT

Chicago, IL

June 17-18, 2014

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John Considine on the State of theEnterprise Cloud

Verizon Terremark CTO John Considine remarked that the cloud can break the ‘Catch 22’ IT faces when trying to both secure and innovate by solving connectivity and security issues, leaving room to innovate.

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John Considine on the Changing Dynamic Between IT and Cloud

Considine added that business divisions used to go around IT to deploy cloud – ‘shadow IT’ as it’s known – but now IT departments are heavily engaged in cloud computing evidenced by the growing popularity of hybrid models.

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John Considine on SDN and the Cloud

Considine commented that there are layers of virtualization and a recognition that as more becomes virtualized, additional control and automation of that infrastructure is needed which is where SDN (Software Defined Networking) comes into play.

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John Considine on the Future of Cloud

“We are working very hard to make it possible to run virtually anything in the cloud.”

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