Hyper-convergence – What is out there?

Welcome to the first session in our Tech food fight (TFF) webcast series on Convergence and Hyper-convergence. TFF is a short 20-30min webcast series suitable both for Audio and Video format for you as a participant. The goal with the series is to explore different areas of the Converged and Hyper-converged universe and the key “Food for Thought” to consider for you as a customer. In the first session we will cover 3 questions within Technology trends 1. Tech trends – What are we seeing out there, what are the analysts talking about and what’s happening in the industry in general 2. This month’s tech food fight is one of the big ones out there – aligned to industry tech trends – Hyper-converged infrastructure 3. How to get started – what steps should you take if you are considering this month’s tech food fight! Speaker Bios: Alan Butler is a business technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in B2B Technology driven business. Understanding how technology connects consumers to business experiences that deliver new digital opportunities and create new business models that add value to the consumer. Alan has worked for many leading global technology companies such as Computer Associates, Cisco, Juniper Networks, VCE, DELL EMC and technology media companies IDG and VNU. You can follow Alan on twitter @NextGenCloudIT Paul Mackay is a technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in Technology driven environments. He has a passion for technology that simplifies the build to buy IT environments, embracing of new thinking and design to validate IT leadership. Paul has run his own vitualisation consultancy practice giving him a unique insight into the build IT rather than buy approach many organisations find themselves in today. Paul has also been a VMware delivery consultant, with many years spent designing and delivering complex virtualisation platforms. You can follow Paul on twitter @phmackay