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Data Centre World VisitorImplementing Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Loughborough University
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Loughborough University is one of the country’s leading Universities; the premier university for sport and the official preparation camp headquarters for Team GB prior to the 2012 Olympic Games. Loughborough, like many universities, faced the challenge of upgrading their aging IT Infrastructure and Data Centre. In this session you will hear how Loughborough took the innovative decision to implement a Hybrid Cloud solution built on NetApp storage. Hear how the solution meets Loughboroughs requirements for cost reduction, efficiency, flexibility and availability while becoming the first hybrid cloud solution attached to the Joint Academic Network (JANET).
Speaker: Laurence James
Job title: UK Products, Alliances and Solutions Marketing Manager
Company: NetApp
In his role as Product Alliances and Solutions Marketing Manager, Laurence is responsible for driving market awareness for NetApp products across UK and Ireland. Working closely with the EMEA Product, Alliances and Solutions Marketing Manager, his focus is to drive business growth and closely align NetApp offerings with customer and market needs.
Laurence works across all of NetApp product areas and has an in-depth understanding of its diverse customer needs to deliver value across the entire range of its product suite. Leading the marketing activities within this area, Laurence is responsible for ensuring this element of NetApp’s offering is market-leading, of the highest standard and guarantees customer ROI. Working with a dedicated and experienced team, he assists in developing and implementing marketing campaigns that support the positioning of NetApp products and its reputation.
Prior to joining NetApp in 2010, Laurence was the Data Centre Efficiency Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems and then Oracle. Prior to this he worked for StorageTek as Disk Category and ILM Marketing Manager, Principal Technical Account Manager, as Technical Design Authority at Centrica and Principal IT Consultant at the Meteorological Office.
Speaker: Simon Daykin
Job title: Chief Technology Officer
Company: Logicalis UK
Simon joined Logicalis in April 2007 and was appointed CTO in April 2010 leading the technical strategy, core platform development and driving the development of the “as a Service” portfolio.
Simon's career in ICT started in the defence industry moving into the finance sector before joining Logicalis, bringing a wealth of experience developing platforms, solutions and driving transformation projects in some of the most demanding of environments.
Watch this session in the Virtualization and the Cloud Theatre on March 01 2012 at 10:45 am
