Brian Wilson is Director of Cloud Services at Quest. As the director of services for cloud implementations, Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Quest client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Quest Cloud Automation Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud.
There is a lot of talk lately about new self-service options for cloud
computing and virtualized enterprise IT resources. Nearly every vendor offers
a way to deliver on-demand cloud services to users without the need for help
from the IT department.
Self-service for the cloud is valuable to both the business user and the IT
department, much in the same way that booking a flight reservation online or
withdrawing money from an ATM machine are helpful in our own personal lives.
But as many organizations dig deeper, they're finding that not all
self-service offerings are the same. There are four basic options currently
available:
1. First Come, First Served
This type of self-service cloud capability is similar to the old-fashioned
video movie rental process. When you went to the video store, you could only
check out a movie if the store had it in stock. Similarly, the fi... (more)
Brian Wilson is Director of Cloud Services at Quest. As the director of services for cloud implementations, Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Quest client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Quest Cloud Automation Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud.
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