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First Question for discussion: Garter has said that most organizations spend over 60% of their budget keeping the lights on and around 15% on innovation. Thoughts?

Phil Dunn

Is there a presentation you'll be presenting or just a discussion based on your questions?

John Furrier this is discussion open forum I'll post questions and feel free to post your own

Jeff Frick Why IronMan? Sure there's a story.

Jeff Frick
seems like a very high number

Oracle Hardware
There isn't a formal presentation. We'll just be discussing points of view and responding

Oracle Hardware
We also look forward to questions from the crowd

Crowd Captain
I think that scale out on commodity hardware is something that is gaining traction but it's not always optimized lots of innovation still needed in that market. Purpose built systems are winning with software driving value

Harish venkat
How can business innovate keeping this equation for IT resources? We have to re-balance this equation where we can free up resources that are used up for "Reactive, keeping the lights on" type of activities to "proactive and innovative"

Phil Dunn

So do you think that’s why everyone is looking to go to the cloud? To reduce OPEX?

Oracle Hardware Cloud is a means to an end to obtain agility at a low cost so you can quickly respond to changes in requirements, changes in customer attitude. Agility and responsiveness are the issues, not where the system resides.

Mohan Desai - cloud is part of most people's IT strategy but it doesn't replace integrated systems- both have their place in modern DC

Harish venkat
Here's a video that brings context to what we are discussing today.

Harish venkat

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Oracle Hardware
Complexity is the enemy of the efficiency, insight and flexibility which is needed to be responsive to changing conditions. Simplifying IT puts you in position to shift your resources to more innovative efforts.

Dave Vellante
there's an IT labor problem - all that non-differentiated heavy lifting is killing IT organizations

Kate Islas
Is Gartner advising clients on how to create new/better KPIs to measure the impact of IT to the business? ie. beyond just typical OpEx (support, environmentals, admin)