IDC & Everpure Roundtable
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Storage Infrastructure
In Partnership With
As AI workloads intensify and data volumes grow exponentially, IT leaders face a familiar dilemma: infrastructure that can’t keep pace with the business requirements. CFO’s needs more than a technology argument to approve budgets. For AI use cases, the storage costs could spiral out of control in no time. How about investing in modern storage that comes with predictable pricing, guaranteed performance SLAs, can scale on demand without the burden of lengthy hardware refresh cycles?
This invitation-only roundtable will give and opportunity to discuss some of the concern areas of senior IT decision makers and help build a business case that resonates with their CFOs.
Join IDC and Everpure thought leaders to exchange perspectives, pressure-test assumptions, and leave with a clearer path forward.
The AI Infrastructure Gap: Growth vs. Readiness in APAC
AI investment across Asia/Pacific is accelerating, but readiness isn’t keeping pace. While global AI spending is projected to reach $236.6 billion by 2029 and the region’s server and storage market grows toward $20 billion, only 23% of AI applications in APAC make it from proof of concept to production. Storage modernization is emerging as the critical requirement for closing this gap.
Key Learning Outcomes Include:
What storage limits do CIOs face as AI adoption accelerates?
Preparing AI-Ready Storage Beyond Cost and Capacity
Finding the right balance between scale, cost, and governance
What defines AI-ready storage infrastructure — and how prepared are organizations?
Agenda
IDC & Everpure Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
Welcome Address by IDC
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Storage Infrastructure
This session will explore key market trends and why enterprises should rethink their storage strategy. The discussion will explore how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their storage infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. The session will also explore how intelligent data management, and consumption models for storage will drive AI initiatives in your organization while maintaining operational resilience, performance and adequate governance as you progress on your AI initiatives.
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
From Storage to Strategic Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
Ramanujam Komanduri
AVP & Country Manager, India, Everpure
Sudharsan Aravamuthan
Head of Systems Engineering, Everpure
Open Discussion: Beyond Capacity: Rethinking your storage infrastructure for an AI-Driven Enterprise
As organizations accelerate investments in AI, analytics, and digital services, many are discovering that traditional infrastructure models were not designed for today’s demands. Rapid data growth, increasing performance requirements, infrastructure complexity, and rising costs are forcing CIOs to rethink on their enterprise storage strategy. The discussion will examine how leading organizations are modernizing their storage infrastructure foundations to support AI adoption, improve operational agility, and create a more resilient platform for future growth.
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Summary & Close
Cocktail Dinner and Networking
Speakers
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain
IDC
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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 7:35 pm
Open Discussion: Beyond Capacity: Rethinking your storage infrastructure for an AI-Driven Enterprise
As organizations accelerate investments in AI, analytics, and digital services, many are discovering that traditional infrastructure models were not designed for today’s demands. Rapid data growth, increasing performance requirements, infrastructure complexity, and rising costs are forcing CIOs to rethink on their enterprise storage strategy. The discussion will examine how leading organizations are modernizing their storage infrastructure foundations to support AI adoption, improve operational agility, and create a more resilient platform for future growth.
One Day Event 7:05 pm
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Storage Infrastructure
This session will explore key market trends and why enterprises should rethink their storage strategy. The discussion will explore how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their storage infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. The session will also explore how intelligent data management, and consumption models for storage will drive AI initiatives in your organization while maintaining operational resilience, performance and adequate governance as you progress on your AI initiatives.
One Day Event 7:00 pm
Welcome Address by IDC
Ramanujam Komanduri
AVP & Country Manager, India
Everpure
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Ramanujam Komanduri
Ramanujam Komanduri is Everpure’s first Country Manager in India. He joins Everpure with over 28 years of experience in the technology industry in India and has had tremendous success working closely with some of the largest Indian enterprises and technology partners.
Prior to Everpure, Ramanujam was Regional Director for NetApp India Marketing & Services Pvt Ltd. He also previously held leadership positions at Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems and also worked with Digital Equipment Corp. and helped build profitable businesses. He has strong relationships across distributors, systems integrators and the software vendor community. This is in line with Pure’s strategy of driving business growth with strong partner engagements.
Based in Bangalore, Ramanujam holds an MBA from the School of Business Management.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:15 pm
From Storage to Strategic Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
Sudharsan Aravamuthan
Head of Systems Engineering
Everpure
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Sudharsan Aravamuthan
Sudharsan Aravamuthan is the Head of Systems Engineering at Everpure India.
In this role he and his team are responsible for driving technical strategy to help customers navigate their digital transformation journeys with modern data solutions.
He brings with him deep expertise in data solutions having worked in technical leadership roles across the Asia Pacific region.
Throughout his career, he has worked closely with Large Enterprises and Government around the region helping them to with initiatives such as data center modernization and digital transformation.
Prior to Everpure, Sudharsan Aravamuthan has served as an APAC Solution Lead for Data Intelligence, Content and Cloud and Virtualization solutions at Hitachi Vantara.
Adept in multiple technology disciplines, he has built a reputation for successfully architecting full stack, resilient, scalable, and agile infrastructure for workloads such as Hybrid Cloud, Containers & Virtualization, SAP HANA & Oracle.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:15 pm
From Storage to Strategic Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
In Partnership With
Everpure
Everpure (NYSE: P) allows organizations to take control of their data with an industry-leading, ever-evolving storage and data management platform. We help companies unleash the power of their data by ensuring it is accessible, intelligent, and ready to perform in the AI era. We make data management effortless while simultaneously scaling performance and significantly reducing energy consumption. With one of the highest Net Promoter Scores for over a decade, Everpure is the choice of the world’s most innovative organizations. For more information, visit www.everpuredata.com
Venue
JW Marriott Hotel New Delhi Aerocity
Meeting Room – The Gallery Room, Basement Level
Asset Area 4 – Hospitality District Delhi, Aerocity, New Delhi – 110037