1. Smart Technology Solutions
London ● New York ● Singapore
www.citihub.com
Data Centre Evolution – The challenges we face
Cloud Expo Asia, November 2013
Eric Tachibana

2. Welcome to the New Normal

3. The New Normal is being driven by
mega trends

4. OLD NEW
• Grow, grow, grow
• Controlled releases
• Availability
• Wanted: Geeks
• Ownership
• Manual Boxes &
cables
• Agile efficiency
• High frequency releases
• Sweeping regulation
• Wanted: Suits
• Partnership
• Virtual / automated
resources
Your hard-earned management wisdom
may no longer be so wise

5. The Supply/Demand Curve will flip with a
thud

6. From availability to agility - time to shed
Tiers

7. Savings are coming…no, no….really…

8. The regulators mean it

9. A snapshot on Citihub
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Information Security & Risk Management
Business Platform Infrastructure
• Cloud adoption & integration
• Data centre
• End user compute
• Mobility
• High performance & latency
• Application availability
• Systems integration
• Business instrumentation
• Market data
• Market connectivity
• Data architecture & mgt
Strategy & Market Intelligence
Managing Change
Business & Service Management
• IT strategy
• Cost efficiency
• Sourcing
• Capital markets IT
• Niche market intelligence
• Assessments: (IT General
Controls, Application,
Infrastructure, Data Centre)
• Data privacy architecture
• Cloud security and risk
• Regulatory-driven IT
compliance
• DR & BCP
• Penetration testing
• Product management
• Operating model
• Operational excellence
• Enterprise tooling
• Business capacity management
• Portfolio management
• Programme management
• Shared platform adoption
• PMO
Example client work:
•Cross-asset platform strategy and peer
capability benchmarking (global wholesale
bank)
•FX business strategy (regional investment
bank)
•Global telecoms outsourcing (tier-1 bank)
•Server and storage efficiency strategy
(leading investment bank)
•Bank-wide General IT Controls service
(tier-1 bank)
•Information Security policy definition and
enterprise security awareness program (top
3 hedge fund)
•Bank-wide technology operational risk
framework design and implementation (tier-
1 bank)
•Data privacy testing program (tier-1 bank)
•Bank-wide BCP readiness assessment
(global bank)
•Process & tooling industrialisation for
consolidated production services group
(leading global bank)
•Product management processes and
operating model (tier-1 bank)
•Business Capacity Management strategy,
framework and tool to address audit points
(tier-1bank)
•Location strategy definition and execution
(tier-1 banks)
•Post-merger trade migration for
commodities and structured notes
businesses (global bank)
•Enterprise end-of-life program mobilisation
and execution (tier-1bank)
•Virtualisation adoption strategy and
execution (tier-1 bank)

10. References
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• http://www.wallconvert.com/wallpapers/digital-art/walking-on-hot-coals-
14022.html
Please note that all content & opinions expressed in this deck are my own and don’t necessarily represent
the position of my current, or any previous, employers