The votes are in! Top 10 IT Priorities for 2011
More than 400 IT professionals at multinational companies responded to Virtela’s recent survey on top IT infrastructure priorities for 2011 and improvement areas for managed service providers (MSPs), and the results provide an exciting glimpse into the year ahead.
Topping the list of priorities are infrastructure management, security, data center consolidation, application acceleration and cloud solutions. Not surprising, really. Having just come back from PTC ’11 where cloud services seemed to be a recurring topic of conversation amongst our global partners, to the customers we speak to on a daily basis, cloud solutions are in high demand given their ability to deliver better, cheaper and faster ways to meet security, application acceleration and other needs. And with today’s IT leaders being tasked with security and compliance initiatives on top of the ongoing management and monitoring of networks, data centers, application speeds and overall business efficiency – it’s no wonder they ranked these as their top priorities for 2011.
Virtela “Cloud” Hits Waikiki Beach
Virtela’s Global Network Operations support for our customers “follows the sun”. So does its Global Strategy Access Strategy team. We follow the sun even to picture perfect Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. In Aloha shirts and clutching a wad of business cards, we had a mission at the annual Pacific Telecommunications Council’s 2011 conference (PTC 2011).
Led by Andy Funk, our Vice President of Global Access Strategy, the team underpins Virtela’s partnership with global carriers as a platform for supporting cloud services and superior customer experience. We take time to meet with global partners, share industry perspective, discuss on-going and future business, strengthen industry ties and discover new partners. The Hawaii venue of this annual event lends itself to strong participation from Pacific Rim and North American carriers.