IDC & Everpure Roundtable
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Infrastructure
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The role of enterprise infrastructure has undergone a fundamental shift. Where once decisions were governed largely by capacity thresholds and predictable refresh cycles, today’s CIOs face a far more complex mandate — one that demands simultaneous attention to AI readiness, operational resilience, security, scalability, and business agility. Compounding this challenge is the reality that technology environments themselves are growing more intricate, interconnected, and harder to manage at scale.
Across industries, organizations are grappling with surging data volumes, accelerating AI adoption, and intensifying pressure to demonstrate that infrastructure investments align with measurable business outcomes. These forces are prompting enterprise leaders to rethink long-held assumptions about how infrastructure should be planned, funded, and evolved over time.
This exclusive roundtable brings together senior technology leaders to explore how forward-thinking organizations are approaching infrastructure modernization in this new environment. The conversation will examine the critical decision-making factors shaping investment strategies, the tradeoffs leaders are navigating between flexibility and operational control, and the practical steps being taken to build infrastructure foundations capable of supporting the next wave of enterprise innovation.
Why Attend
This roundtable is designed as a candid, peer-driven exchange — bringing together senior leaders to share real-world experiences, surface common challenges, and draw on collective insight to shape more confident, future-ready infrastructure strategies. Delegates can engage openly, contribute perspectives, and leave with actionable ideas from their peers. The discussion will cover the following topics:
- As AI adoption accelerates across industries, what infrastructure limitations are organizations most commonly encountering today — and how are CIOs proactively preparing their environments for future demand?
- Beyond cost reduction and capacity expansion, what business outcomes are rising to the top of the agenda when evaluating and justifying infrastructure modernization initiatives?
- How are organizations striking the right balance between the need for scalability and flexibility on one hand, and concerns around operational complexity, governance risk, and resilience on the other?
- Looking ahead over the next three years, what capabilities, characteristics, and design principles will define a truly AI-ready infrastructure environment — and how far along are most organizations today?
Agenda
IDC & Everpure Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
Welcome Address by IDC
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC India
Beyond CapEx: Making the Financial Case for Modern Infrastructure
This session will explore how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. The discussion will examine the role of intelligent storage, infrastructure flexibility, operational simplicity, and predictable scalability in helping enterprises move from isolated AI experiments to sustainable, enterprise-wide innovation.
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC India
From Storage to Strategic Advantage: Building an AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
Hear from senior Everpure leaders from India as they share how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. This session will explore the role of intelligent storage, infrastructure flexibility, operational simplicity, and predictable scalability in helping enterprises move from isolated AI experiments to sustainable, enterprise-wide innovation.
Ramanujam Komanduri
AVP & Country Manager, India, Everpure
Sudharsan Aravamuthan
Head of Systems Engineering, Everpure
Open Discussion: Beyond Capacity: Rethinking 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 operational costs are forcing CIOs to rethink how infrastructure is planned, managed, and scaled. The discussion will examine how leading organizations are modernizing their infrastructure foundations to support AI adoption, improve operational agility, and create a more resilient platform for future growth.
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC India
Summary & Close
Cocktail Dinner and Networking
Speakers
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director
IDC India
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Rajiv Ranjan
Based in the IDC Bangalore office, Rajiv Ranjan works as an associate research director 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 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 operational costs are forcing CIOs to rethink how infrastructure is planned, managed, and scaled. The discussion will examine how leading organizations are modernizing their 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 Infrastructure
This session will explore how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. The discussion will examine the role of intelligent storage, infrastructure flexibility, operational simplicity, and predictable scalability in helping enterprises move from isolated AI experiments to sustainable, enterprise-wide innovation.
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
Hear from senior Everpure leaders from India as they share how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. This session will explore the role of intelligent storage, infrastructure flexibility, operational simplicity, and predictable scalability in helping enterprises move from isolated AI experiments to sustainable, enterprise-wide innovation.
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
Hear from senior Everpure leaders from India as they share how forward-looking organizations are modernizing their data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, simplify operations, and improve business responsiveness. This session will explore the role of intelligent storage, infrastructure flexibility, operational simplicity, and predictable scalability in helping enterprises move from isolated AI experiments to sustainable, enterprise-wide innovation.
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