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When considering a major storage infrastructure change, companies need to consider the return on investment they're likely to see, taking into account infrastructure and management costs, among other factors. Forrester Consulting has conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examines the potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying Pure Storage's FlashArray storage solutions. Joe Branca, a consultant at Forrester, will join us for this webinar to discuss Forrester's methodology and findings from customer case studies along with Casey McKnew, from Hodges University, a current Pure FlashArray customer, who will provide insights based on several years of experience with FlashArray. At the end of the webinar, you will have a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact FlashArray storage solutions may have on your organization as well as a better understanding of how FlashArray makes storage infrastructure management effortless and efficient.
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Speakers:
Joe Branca, Forrester Consulting
Joe Branca is a consultant with Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) practice. Joe works with Forrester’s clients to measure and articulate the business value and financial impact of technology and investment decisions. Joe has delivered business case analyses and studies for technology vendors across a wide variety of industries and technology domains. Joe came to Forrester after spending several years as an analyst and consultant, working with top tier service providers, hardware companies, and utilities, among others, to build defensible strategies in the consumer IoT space. Prior to that, he held roles in product marketing. Joe has an MBA from Rutgers Business School and a bachelor's degree from St. John's University.
Casey McKnew is Lead Network Engineer and Assistant Director of IT Infrastructure at Hodges University in Ft. Myers, Florida.
Casey leads support and administration for all facets of the university’s IT infrastructure, including data centers, servers, workstations, networks, classroom technologies and telecommunications systems. He has led several high-impact projects that have resulted in substantial gains in network performance, including the design and installation of a 10-gigabit backbone network serving over 250 faculty and staff and more than 1,700 students. Casey also built a backup solution that executes weekly and monthly backups of over 3 terabytes of data to a cloud-based system. Prior to joining Hodges, he was chief technology officer or IT director at several medium-sized businesses in the Ft. Meyers/Naples area. He holds an Associate of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems from Hodges University and is a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Kevin Rickson is Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Pure's unique and industry-changing Evergreen Storage. He is a seasoned marketing professional who has been helping customers realize the business benefits of their data, applications and IT modernization for well over 20 years, at tech companies such as NetApp, Oracle and SAP. Kevin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys hiking and spending time with his family in his spare time.