Next Generation Datacenters in Financial Services
Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings

A solution-driven resource for senior IT management in financial services on re-purposing and developing data centers that align with enterprise business goals.

Tony Bishop (Author)

9780123749567

Paperback, published 2 September 2009

312 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

Tony brings together a rare combination of business alignment and IT discipline to solving the crisis firms face with their datacenters. His proven track record resonates throughout the book with sound, logical advice for firms to implement transformation in a consumable building block manner. The strategy blueprint laid out methodically in the book can be best summarized for readers as business differentiation through IT transformation.--George A. Vega, CIB Managing Director, Global Markets & Investment Banking Technology

Financial markets are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the availability of data, and the firms that survive will be able to leverage this information to increase their profit and expand their opportunities in a global world. Large firms must build their own datacenters to manage this data. In such an environment, the CIO’s ability is crucial to lead an effective data strategy to capture, process, and connect data to all the relevant lines of business. At the core of this strategy lies the datacenter – the repository of all information. While there are books that discuss the mechanics, hardware and technicalities of datacenters, no book has yet made the connection between enterprise strategy and datacenter investment, design and management. Next Generation DataCenters in Financial Services is a solution driven book for management that demonstrates how to leverage technology to manage the seemingly infinite amount of data available today. Each chapter offers cutting-edge management and technology solutions to effectively manage data through datacenters.

Chapter 1: The Accelerating Need for Data CentersChapter 2: Challenges in Legacy Architecture Chapter 3: Meta-IT: Align Business and IT for Results Chapter 4: Design from the Top-DownChapter 5: Implement the Right Choices from Hardware to SoftwareChapter 6: Extreme Optimization and Eco-fficiencyChapter 7: Manage for Scale and Evolution Chapter 8: Leading Vendors and Service Providers

Subject Areas: Financial services industry [KNST], Business mathematics & systems [KJQ], Banking [KFFK]