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 supporting infrastructure isn’t always keeping pace. As organisations move from AI pilots to production and explore agentic AI, the demands on storage, availability, performance and resilience are growing more complex.
The challenge: building an infrastructure foundation that delivers the performance and availability demanding AI workloads need, enables rapid recovery from disruption, and modernises existing environments without adding complexity. Infrastructure decisions here directly affect operational continuity, cost, risk and the ability to scale AI.
This exclusive roundtable by IDC in partnership with Hitachi Vantara and co-hosted by Brocade brings together CIOs, CDOs and senior technology leaders for a discussion on what it takes to build resilient, AI-ready data infrastructure.

Agenda
IDC & Hitachi Vantara Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration & Networking Tea/Coffee
IDC Welcome Address
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
Open Discussion: Strengthening Data Infrastructure for an AI-Ready Enterprise
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Domain, IDC
Sanjay Agrawal
CTO and Head Presales, Hitachi Vantara
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 7:10 pm
Open Discussion: Strengthening Data Infrastructure for an AI-Ready Enterprise
One Day Event 7:00 pm
IDC Welcome Address
Sanjay Agrawal
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:10 pm
Open Discussion: Strengthening Data Infrastructure for an AI-Ready Enterprise
Venue
JW Marriott Hotel Bengaluru
Meeting Room – Topaz
JW Marriott Hotel Bengaluru, 24/1 Vittal Mallya Road, Bengaluru 560001