In this exclusive interview, Logicalis’s Datacenter Business Development Manager, Alan Watson offers practical advice on the basics of platform choice and workloads within your organisation.
Alan explains that workload is the amount of effort an application has got to do to run a business application, this workload has to be turned into a platform and therefore the hardware that it runs on, workload is all about turning business requirement into applications that can then turn into hardware.
This video also introduces virtualisation and explains how it can be used to move workloads around with ease to improve performance and reduce cost. Alan also clarifies why virtualisation should not just be thought about in terms of virtualising the servers and why you need to consider virtualising the whole environment including servers, storage and the network in order to get the most out of it.
Alan Watson, a Datacenter Business Development Manager at Logicalis has 25 Years of IT expertise including, World Wide Systems Manager for Coutts Bank, Technical Director for a European Managed Services Company and experience of IBM, HP, Sun, NetApp, VMWare, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft and many of the business applications they support.
Alan is driven by the view 'IT should not be a business expense more an enabler.'