A conversation with Piyush Saxena – AVP & Head, Next Gen Datacenter Practice at HCL.
Piyush has more than a decade of experience helping HCL customers design contemporary data centers. His current focus is to design and implement SDI-driven Data Centers for Enterprises looking to support their digital initiatives.
Join Piyush Saxena on 27th September for a webinar entitled ‘Accelerate SDI Adoption to Power Digital Transformation’ at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
What do you hope the audience will learn from this webinar?
IT infrastructure is quickly moving from monolithic blocks to software defined spaces. Customer conversations nowadays are focused on everything as a service i.e. towards logical construct of infrastructure and not on asset ownership – that is where SDI becomes crucial. As we speak, the SDI market spend is projected to reach $54 billion by 2019. In the webinar, we will elucidate how SDI can be used to architect the future of enterprise IT. The webinar will help you understand challenges faced by an enterprise while adopting SDI. How HCL, via its end-to end SDI offering, is enabling enterprises take the software defined approach to modernize their infrastructure and build digital backbone. The audience will understand the steps and HCL accelerators used to build SDI.
What discussions do you look forward to having with the audience?
As with any new and evolving technology – without a mature, well-considered and tool-based approach, SDI initiatives can become complex and expensive, and not generate the promised ROI if not approached correctly. Customers need to decide between a build vs buy approach when it comes to SDI.
This will be the focus of my discussion in the webinar. How organizations should approach SDI adoption, how they should mitigate the risks associated with implementation, and how they should plan investment in SDI. Enterprises should look to adopt a certified blueprint based approach to SDI which can help them to drive IT agility, dramatically reduce deployment & operations risks, and increase efficiency.
What do you enjoy most about your role?
I am currently responsible for identifying and evangelizing all new technology based solutions for our customers. With the plethora of technology solutions available in the market it’s a daunting task to evaluate and recommend the best and most optimal solutions to our customers and ensure successful implementation of the same. It gives me immense satisfaction to see successful implementation of our recommendations to our customers. We end up making wrong choices at times, but addressing these choices and providing alternate solutions as required is a challenge we take head-on.
How did you get into the industry?
I was always interested in technology solutions that can be practically implemented to deliver business solutions to customers. I was extremely inspired by the technology boom in early 2000’s which brought Indian IT firms to the global mainstage. To pursue my interests in this areas and also contribute to the Indian IT success story I decided to pursue a career in this industry. It has been a fulfilling roller-coaster ride till date.
Where is your favorite place in the world and why?
I hail from a small town in India named Bhopal. With a large number of lakes and hills and a moderate climate, this is one of the most scenic places I have been in my life. With the extensive travel that comes as part of my job, I cherish every day I can get back to my home town and spend time with my parents and friends, tracking or boating.
Join Piyush Saxena on 27th September for a webinar entitled ‘Accelerate SDI Adoption to Power Digital Transformation’ at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.