The economic realities of software defined storage and hyperconverged infrastructure

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Software defined storage (SDS) and hyperconverged infrastructure are widely acclaimed for their potential to make life easier for IT departments. But can these solutions – offered by a rapidly growing number of new and established vendors – really deliver any measurable value?

Join this webcast to hear a team of experts from Forrester, Nutanix, and Dell discuss the economics of deploying SDS and hyperconverged systems. They will describe the cost tradeoffs involved for specific use cases and present a framework for evaluating ROI- and TCO-based adoption trends and actual deployment data.

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Speakers

Richard Fichera is a member of Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations research team and has coverage responsibilities for servers and data center architecture and transformation. Among the core technologies he focuses on are blade and modular servers, converged infrastructure, virtualization and management of virtual data center resources, enterprise cloud infrastructure, and techniques for data center transformation.

Richard recently returned to Forrester after spending four years as director of BladeSystem strategy at Hewlett-Packard. He was responsible for planning future technology products as well as serving as an executive sponsor for large financial service companies; participating in merger and acquisition projects; and serving as a member of HP's Technology Advisory Council team, which solicited input from a group of senior customer representatives. Richard was also a member of the startup team at Egenera, an early blade server and virtualization pioneer.

John Mannix is a product marketing manager in Dell’s Enterprise Solutions Group and manages programs for hyper-converged infrastructure and storage-defined storage. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and marketing and was previously with Cirrus Logic, Hyperformix, Y&R, and Gemalto.

Ben Hogue is the OEM Product Marketing Manager for Nutanix and has worldwide responsibility for driving Dell XC Series business through Dell and Nutanix partnership. Ben has been selling and marketing technology solutions through channel partners, distributors and vendors for over 20+ years and has worked for IBM, NetApp, Arrow and Avnet.