Pedro is a Systems Engineer from the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas with  an MBA in Maryland University. He started his professional career in 1992, with Petróleos de Venezuela, SA. an stated-owned oil organization and a world wide leader in the industry. Pedro developed several optimization procedures for inventory management and lead the Technical team to migrate legacy material systems into a unified SAP implementation . In July 1999, he participated in the development of the first solutions center for  Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park with an focus in the supply chain management sector. Since 2001, he has lead numerous IT architecture opportunities in over 15 countries in the Caribbean Region, Venezuela and Colombia, and is currently in charge of mission critical architecture engagements for customers in the Telecommunications, Finance and Government industries.

Presentation
A Route to Standardized Operating Environments
Regardless of the complexity and variety existing in biological beings, living organisms are built from basic building blocks or fundamental units of life: cells. These small units execute functions, such as transportation and conversion, using a set of standardized structures (for example, the nucleus, cytoplasm, and organelles) that work together towards the proper functioning of the biological being to which they belong.

Similarly, an enterprise IT architecture uses building blocks or operating environments to create, process, and transform information that supports the operations of the business organization. In this context, standardized operating environments (SOEs) represent a key concept in the simplification and normalization stages of data center optimization.

Standardized operating environments act like the cells of a biological being by forming the building blocks of the IT architecture, by providing processing power, storage, software, and services. These operating environments are defined according to their place in the architecture's logical tiers, and they are shaped according to the systemic qualities (availability, performance, reliability, security, and so on) defined by the organization.

In this presentation we will review the following information:

• A definition of standardized operating environments (SOEs)
• The place of SOEs within the enterprise IT architecture
• Templates for SOEs
• A practical guide for developing and transitioning to SOEs
• Provisioning alternatives
• Governance linkages

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