Sean Jennings is Vice President, Solutions Architecture, at Virtustream. He has over 20 years of experience enabling commercial and government enterprises of all sizes gain efficiencies and competitive advantage through the design and deployment of creative, forward-looking IT solutions. He has been at the vanguard of the migration to commodity platforms throughout his career, designing solutions around and earning numerous certifications from industry leaders Novell, Microsoft, EMC, HP/Compaq/DEC, Checkpoint, and VMware long before they became fashionable.
Sean began his career as a programmer for Control Data, before transitioning into systems management and architecture on VAX and x86 platforms as a Senior Systems Engineer for Funds Associates Limited and PNC Bank. He was the Microsoft Systems Practice Manager for Virtualogic, now a part of EDS. He was also a Systems Architect and Vice President for National Cooperative Bank with responsibility for Disaster Recovery of x86 systems, Solaris, and AS/400. In 2001, Sean co-founded Brigh Technologies, Inc., with Matt Theurer.
Judging by the customer demand we've experienced at Virtustream, with many
enterprises moving infrastructure and mission-critical applications into the
cloud, it's safe to assume that we are nearing a true tipping point for cloud
adoption. But with adoption comes demand for superior performance and
improved reliability and security.
Changes to SLAs
Cloud service providers (CSPs) can expect clients and prospects to demand
more detailed and comprehensive Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In many
cases, enterprises leveraging cloud platforms from leading service providers
have assumed that their SLAs covered more than they actually did. For
instance, many existing SLAs have covered availability of compute, but not
storage. A select few CSPs that have always had comprehensive SLAs in 2012
look for the industry as a whole to offer SLAs that cover the entire
application s... (more)
Sean Jennings is Vice President, Solutions Architecture, at Virtustream. He has over 20 years of experience enabling commercial and government enterprises of all sizes gain efficiencies and competitive advantage through the design and deployment of creative, forward-looking IT solutions. He has been at the vanguard of the migration to commodity platforms throughout his career, designing solutions around and earning numerous certifications from industry leaders Novell, Microsoft, EMC, HP/Compaq/DEC, Checkpoint, and VMware long before they became fashionable. 
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