IDC & Hitachi Vantara Roundtable
Building Resilient Data Infrastructure for the AI Ready Enterprises
In Partnership With
AI adoption is accelerating across India’s enterprises, but the infrastructure supporting these workloads is not always keeping pace. As organisations move from AI pilots to production and explore agentic AI, the demands on storage, data availability, performance and resilience are becoming increasingly complex.
The challenge is building an infrastructure foundation that can support AI at scale; delivering the performance and availability required for demanding workloads, enabling rapid recovery from disruption, and modernising existing environments without adding unnecessary complexity.
As AI workloads scale, leaders must also rethink how they balance infrastructure investment, resilience and performance with business priorities. The question is how to build an infrastructure foundation that can evolve with the business and deliver value over the long term.
This is particularly critical for organisations across manufacturing, BFSI, retail, telecom and aviation, where AI increasingly intersects with mission-critical systems and sensitive business data. Infrastructure decisions can directly impact operational continuity, risk, cost and the ability to scale AI with confidence.
This exclusive, invitation-only roundtable, hosted by IDC in partnership with Hitachi Vantara, will bring together CIOs, CDOs and senior technology leaders for a closed-door discussion to explore what it takes to build resilient, AI-ready data infrastructure: from storage and architecture to cyber-resilience, recovery and modernisation.
Agenda
IDC & Hitachi Vantara Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
IDC Welcome Address & Keynote
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Building Resilient Data Infrastructure for the AI Ready Enterprises
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Session by Hitachi Vantara
Sanjay Agrawal
CTO and Head Presales, Hitachi Vantara
Open Discussion
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Summary & Close
Cocktail Dinner and Networking
Speakers
Rajiv Ranjan
Based in the IDC Bangalore office, Rajiv Ranjan works as an Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain with the Asia/Pacific team and leads the Future of Digital Infrastructure Research for India. Rajiv has a specific focus on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) research program management. He manages the advisory assignments for IT vendors in the areas of cloud infrastructure strategy, go-to-market strategy, strategic marketing, and end-user insights across technologies and industry verticals. In a previous stint with IDC, Rajiv led the Asia/Pacific Enterprise Storage Infrastructure research practice.
Prior to joining IDC, Rajiv worked with Dell Technologies managing the product marketing assignments for the company’s storage portfolio for selected Asia/Pacific geographies. In this role, Rajiv managed the field marketing, product management, go-to-market, and marketing campaigns for its storage products, driving storage revenue and market share in the operating geographies. He has an overall 17 years of work experience in market research, product marketing, and sales/business development.
Rajiv is a management graduate from ITM group of institutions and has completed his Engineering degree in Telecommunications from the BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:05 pm
Building Resilient Data Infrastructure for the AI Ready Enterprises
One Day Event 7:25 pm
Open Discussion
One Day Event 7:00 pm
IDC Welcome Address & Keynote
Sanjay Agrawal
Venue
Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hotel & Residences
Meeting Room – Grand Salon, Basement Level
Grand Hyatt Hotel, A S Road, Mumbai