Almost 100 ranking IT professionals gathered for a breakfast briefing at the Guinness Storehouse for Fujitsu’s Virtualisation Fast Track event.
Guest speaker, Chris Ingle, vice president for consulting at IDC, spoke in detail about current thinking in converged infrastructure management and the increasing reliance organisations will have to place on ensuring an appropriate data centre strategy.
The event was quite opportune being held the same week Twitter’s own infrastructure had been stressed by that Ellen DeGeneres’ star-studded ‘selfie’ at the Oscars, shared up to 2 million times, making it the most widely retweeted picture to date.
From a vendor perspective, Andrew McDade, enterprise product manager UK and Ireland for Fujitsu, brought some clarity to the hardware evolution and pricing model for vShape, explaining the ‘plug and play, single part number’ product strategy.
Fujitsu delivers their virtualisation offering alongside a partnership with NetApp, VM Ware, Symantec and Brocade.
As part of the breakfast briefing, an open forum interview hosted by TechTrade publisher Billy Huggard with Dave Ruddle, senior product development architect with Data Continuity Group.
As a customer, Ruddle was able to give an insight into the route taken to rapid deployment and the experience from gaining the best from the product offering. Ruddle explained the need to not only understand the technology offering but how the integration with the overall business strategy was going to being achieved.
A subsequent question and answer session saw Peter Rawden, senior director of partners and pathways at NetApp, Northern EMEA, join the panelists for discussion and debate around products and overall market direction.
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