Date	25th July 2013
Topic	Majenta FlexPod – IT infrastructure that delivers business agility
Experts from:	NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft
Plus:	Industry Challenges Overview Panel Q&A
Venue:	Heritage Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire
Fun Stuff:	1 ½ hour off road Land Rover driving experience & Museum Tour

Majenta FlexPod – IT infrastructure that delivers business agility

Join experts from Majenta, Cisco, NetApp and Microsoft for an invaluable insight into the very latest developments in agile data centers and prevalidated solutions. Hosted at the Heritage Motor Museum, home the largest collection of British cars and conveniently located just off the M40, this not to be missed event also includes a complimentary Land Rover experience.

Over the course of the day we’ll explain to you how your organisation can incorporate flexible and cost-effective IT solutions with specific emphasis on virtualisation, Cloud and prevalidated technologies.

Taking each component in turn and explained by the vendor themselves, you’ll see how a Flexpod data center solution can easily scale vertically or horizontally to accommodate many application workloads and environments. We’ll also explain why considering a move away from siloed servers, storage and networking resources to higher levels of virtualisation could deliver a significant benefit.

Learn how to

Reduce deployment risk
Enhance data center efficiencies
Create a flexible IT environment
Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 70%
Slash IT costs with considerable savings and still benefit from extensive and track able ROI
Cut down Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by up to 78%
Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery
Condense the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%

Agenda

9.30 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome - Manish Amlani, Director or IT, Majenta Solutions
10.15 - 10.45	Overview of industry Challenges - Dave Allen, Vice President and General Manager UK, NetApp
10.45 - 11.15	Cisco - Andrew Gunyon – Data Centre Business Development, Cisco
11.15 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00	NetApp - Peter Mason, Solutions Architect, NetApp
12.00 - 12.30	Microsoft - Julian Datta, Channel Development Manager for Virtualisation and Management, Microsoft
12.30 - 13.00	Panel Q&A
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 16.00	Land Rover Experience and Museum Tour

Registration

Spaces for this event are limited and therefore offered on a first come, first served basis. Upon registering for this event we will contact you to confirm that your place has been reserved and share further details. Registration for this event is restricted to UK based companies.

Full Address	Heritage Motor Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwickshire CV35 0BJ
Directions	http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/visit/getting-here/
Speakers	Manish Amlani Director of IT at Majenta Manish is responsible for the IT Division at Majenta Solutions. Working in partnership with key vendors including NetApp, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, Dell and HP, the Division delivers a comprehensive range of datacentre infrastructure solutions which include Flexpod. Manish is respected for his progressive approach and an appetite to deliver best of breed IT solutions to forward thinking companies through his team consisting of the highest calibre individuals. He has forged a reputation for driving solutions that exceed customers’ needs and expectations. Dave Allen VP and General Manager UK, NetApp Dave leads NetApp’s UK business with single-minded focus on establishing NetApp as the leading UK storage vendor. Dave is responsible for planning business strategy and overseeing its delivery to ensure outstanding sales performance and customer satisfaction. Formerly NetApp’s Sales Operations Director, Dave has significant expertise in supporting field sales teams, enabling customer breakthroughs and ensuring compliance in business operations. Dave holds a Masters in Electronic Engineering and outside of work enjoys weight training, winter sports and the latest gadgets. Peter Mason Solutions Architect at NetApp Peter is a NetApp UK SAN specialist covering both fibre channel and iSCSI SANs. He has over 30 years of IT industry experience and has been a specialist in storage networks for over 13 years. Julian Datta Microsoft Channel Development Manager for Virtualisation and Management Julian is an expert in a wide range of Microsoft technologies with specific focus on Virtualisation and Microsoft Unified Communications. He is responsible for working with Microsoft’s partner channel to deliver Microsoft’s Virtualisation and Management solutions. A key part of Julian’s role is to assist businesses to build successful practices around Microsoft’s Unified solutions and help them to accelerate and capitalise on the Microsoft UC opportunity. Andrew Gunyon Data Centre Business Development at Cisco Systems Andrew brings over 20 years IT expertise to Cisco. Today his role is to support commercial customers who are looking to integrate Cisco Data Centre into their organisations. Andrew is a qualified channel and marketing professional with a proven track record in driving revenue across business units and working with other partner organisations including Microsoft and Intel.

Full Address

Heritage Motor Centre
Banbury Road
Gaydon
Warwickshire
CV35 0BJ

Directions

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/visit/getting-here/

Speakers

Manish Amlani

Director of IT at Majenta
Manish is responsible for the IT Division at Majenta Solutions. Working in partnership with key vendors including NetApp, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, Dell and HP, the Division delivers a comprehensive range of datacentre infrastructure solutions which include Flexpod.

Manish is respected for his progressive approach and an appetite to deliver best of breed IT solutions to forward thinking companies through his team consisting of the highest calibre individuals. He has forged a reputation for driving solutions that exceed customers’ needs and expectations.

Dave Allen

VP and General Manager UK, NetApp
Dave leads NetApp’s UK business with single-minded focus on establishing NetApp as the leading UK storage vendor. Dave is responsible for planning business strategy and overseeing its delivery to ensure outstanding sales performance and customer satisfaction. Formerly NetApp’s Sales Operations Director, Dave has significant expertise in supporting field sales teams, enabling customer breakthroughs and ensuring compliance in business operations. Dave holds a Masters in Electronic Engineering and outside of work enjoys weight training, winter sports and the latest gadgets.

Peter Mason

Solutions Architect at NetApp
Peter is a NetApp UK SAN specialist covering both fibre channel and iSCSI SANs. He has over 30 years of IT industry experience and has been a specialist in storage networks for over 13 years.

Julian Datta

Microsoft Channel Development Manager for Virtualisation and Management
Julian is an expert in a wide range of Microsoft technologies with specific focus on Virtualisation and Microsoft Unified Communications. He is responsible for working with Microsoft’s partner channel to deliver Microsoft’s Virtualisation and Management solutions.

A key part of Julian’s role is to assist businesses to build successful practices around Microsoft’s Unified solutions and help them to accelerate and capitalise on the Microsoft UC opportunity.

Andrew Gunyon

Data Centre Business Development at Cisco Systems
Andrew brings over 20 years IT expertise to Cisco. Today his role is to support commercial customers who are looking to integrate Cisco Data Centre into their organisations.

Andrew is a qualified channel and marketing professional with a proven track record in driving revenue across business units and working with other partner organisations including Microsoft and Intel.