IDC's Rona Shuchat - Forecast for the future of IT services

12:35 | editor | Jan 29th, 2007 8:00am |

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Rona Shuchat, research director, IDC, shares her unique perspective, gained through the study of the strategic impact of telecommunications and web hosting. She discusses what’s interesting in corporate networking, such as deep packet inspection, the use of web-based portals to administer internal networks, and the use of web optimization techniques. She also addresses how corporations will see advantages in bundling the elements of their IT Services, including IP bandwidth, storage, software, security and systems monitoring, to lower their overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Finally, Rona discusses the value of virtualization and utility computing and forecasts the future of IT services.

Transcript:
Host: Jim Leach – SAVVIS
Guest: Rona Shuchat – IDC

Jim Leach – SAVVIS
Welcome to this edition of Thought Leaders, where, we bring you candid conversations with the people whose research and writing are guiding the buyers and suppliers of IT Solutions. I’m Jim Leach. Today we are pleased to welcome Rona Shuchat, Research Director for Telecommunication Transformation Strategy and top industry analyst from IDC. Rona conducts research in the evolution and roll out of next-generation services, using the Internet Protocol or IP as well as manage network ...