The datacentre is changing; more and more are shifting to converged infrastructures to cope with agility & efficiency demands. As many as 30% of datacentres will be converged in 2-3 years time, lowering costs and improving everything from the ease of management to efficiency & time to value for application & cloud deployments.

Storage is one of the most critical layers in converged IT architectures, having one that works in harmony with the rest of your environment and scales seamlessly.

Rather than demonstrating where & how you should store things; we will demonstrate where customers can achieve real savings in both capital expenditure and operating expenditure when forecasting ahead, 5 -7 years.

This 40 minute session will cover:

•  Converged Infrastructure and why the market is demanding it
•  Why Storage is a critical layer for any Converged Infrastructure
•  Dell Fluid Data Storage Solutions and how these can Drive Cost Out of your Datacentre Q&A

Speaker profiles

Andy Hardy - Head of UK Public & Large Enterprise Storage Sales, Dell

Formally the managing director of Compellent prior to Dell’s acquisition in 2011, Andy now leads Dell’s Storage Sales for Dell UK. Having spent many years as an IT director for a venture capitalist group, Andy has extensive experience within the IT industry.

Hugh Jenkins - Enterprise Programs Marketing Manager, Global 500 EMEA, Dell

Hugh is responsible for the marketing of key converged infrastructure and datacentre solutions for Dell’s Global 500 business across EMEA. Hugh has considerable experience working in the field of virtualization with Dell Server and Storage product lines, alongside key partners such as Intel, VMware and Microsoft.