ACCS2016

Gartner, and IDC CIO's made huge predictions in 2015 with the direction of the digital business. The Migration from current state to future state must be a well planed roadmap. Identifying the phase in Evolution of an IT organization is key to crafting a plan to move to a cloud environment, private, hybrid and/or public. In the fast-paced environment of IT today, organizations must strive to become Disciplined, Standardized, Automated, and Optimized.

Paul Schaapman will outline the steps of moving beyond traditional infrastructure into a software-defined data center that will transform your IT to meet your Institutions Goals.

Paul Schaapman is a Data Center Architect at CDW, with over three decades of experience in IT. Paul focuses on determining business needs, current IT consumption models and developing final solutions intended to realize those business goals. Prior to CDW, Mr. Schaapman managed the technical infrastructure, overall process architecture, business continuity planning and information security for the Virginia Farm Bureau (VAFB). While at the VAFB, Mr. Schaapman was awarded the VMWare 2007 virtual vanguard award for “The most advanced virtual infrastructure.” Mr. Schaapman is also a member of VMware’s Partner Technology Advisory Board (PTAB) and also VCE’s PTAB