Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly becoming service provider organizations, creating internal clouds of IT and computing resources to serve customers and business units. Cost savings objectives are no longer enough; IT organizations are adopting virtualization as an architecture to reliably capitalize on the promised business and operational transformation, efficiencies, and extended cost reduction without risking performance, business continuity, security, compliance or control. At the Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 East, CA's Stephen Elliot discussed how CA leads IT and business leaders by empowering them to extend their virtual and physical infrastructures through business driven automation, standardized processes, and best practices. He also explained how CA's virtualization management solutions help enterprise and cloud computing customers produce critical business results such as improved agility, improved service quality, increased efficiency and mitigated IT and business risks.

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Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was research director for IDC's Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights' IT Management Service. In this role, Stephen's primary focus was research, analysis, and strategy advisory on enterprise management markets and the impact of emerging and evolving technologies on IT organizations. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California and completed graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

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