Companies are realizing the benefits of implementing cloud computing within their organizations as a way to be more responsive to their customers in a competitive landscape.They have embraced virtualization and reaping the benefits of being able to deploy applications and even storage rapidly. This allows businesses to be more agile but there are many pitfalls and challenges to consider and tackle before business value can be derived from these technologies and capabilities. Among the challenges is the fact that that the network gets in the way of rapid applications deployment.

How do you bridge the gap between the virtual and physical in the Data Center? What should you look out for when moving to the cloud? Should you deploy SDN (Software-Defined Networking)? This session will explore all these considerations and what are some solutions available to address these challenges.

• Key benefits of cloud adoption in banking and finance industry
• Key factors in your ROI calculation of cloud adoption
• How to evaluate the success of your cloud adoption
• Develop a road map to cloud adoption which fits your organization

It is time for every financial institution to get digital. This is even more so in today's financial services environment where you need to manage big data and leverage the four forces-cloud, social, mobile and big data-to build systems that differentiate your financial institution, improve how you compete and engage with your customers, obtain valuable insights of your data to allow you to make informed and intelligent decisions in real-time, at the right time and more.

This presentation will discuss how you can digitize your business environment and take control of your big data in motion to stay ahead of the competition in the financial services industry.

As with any major generational shift in computing, IT organizations will need to alter more than just technical architectures in order to successfully capitalize on the opportunities presented by cloud computing. Customers that evolve the core operational model - their organizational structures, operational processes, and IT financial management practices - while concurrently transitioning to more effective technical architectures, will reap the greatest benefits over time.

IT organizations face increasing pressure to become more agile and innovate more rapidly to meet internal business requirements and help their organizations respond to competitive threats. Today, CIOs are expected to increase IT efficiency, improve responsiveness, and provide IT services that are both competitively priced and superior to those available from external suppliers. Moreover, these services must be delivered reliably and securely as part of a well-governed IT services delivery strategy.

How can IT address and overcome these challenges? Increasingly, cloud computing is seen as the answer. Cloud is a fundamentally different model for IT - one that enables CIOs to redefine the way IT services are delivered and consumed by the business. Innovative IT services that deliver business value and help organizations realize their strategic objectives often underpin improved alignment between business and IT.

VMware cloud solutions can help improve IT efficiency, agility and reliability, and drive innovation. By combining the technologies, services and guidance required to build, operate, staff and manage your cloud, VMware cloud solutions help organizations maximize the benefits of cloud computing.

The next generation of customer facing applications delivering business personalized analytics and insights is more than just the newest online portal to engage customers or personal banking from a smartphone. The availability of Big Data has unleashed huge potential in terms of gaining customer insights to inform marketing, product development and service delivery.

They are sophisticated apps, blending existing customer information along with Big Data sources to deliver insights whenever and however the customer needs it. Build your company's next scalable, self-service application, delivering personal analytics and insights that can be highly personalized to improve the customer experience and drive customer loyalty.

At this session you will see how you can

• Gain and retain customers through a great online experience
• Deliver personalized analytics and insights to millions of users easily and securely
• Access multiple data sources simultaneously, and provide the information in real-time through interactive data visualizations