Exploit Disruptive Infrastructure Technology

Wednesday, April 12 at 1:00 PM ET | 10:00 AM PT

Webinar Summary


Preparing for the most disruptive technologies can help keep organizations from being overshadowed. Many IT leaders fail to realize how quickly technology increases in capability, and predicting which technologies will become disruptive is difficult.

Join our webinar Exploit Disruptive Infrastructure Technology, where we will discuss Info-Tech’s approach to:

  • ​Creating a disruptive technology working group.
  • ​Producing a longlist of disruptive technologies.
  • ​Evaluating the longlist to produce a shortlist of disruptive technologies.
  • ​Developing a plan for a proof-of-concept project for each shortlisted technology.

Webinar Speakers

 

 

Troy Cheeseman

Advisory Practice Lead

  • Troy Cheeseman is a Director of Infrastructure Services Consulting at Info-Tech Research Group. Troy is a Senior IT Management professional with over 20 years of experience.

  • Within the first 13 years of his career, Troy focused on large corporate IT programs and management, working with CITI as the Global Head of Technology for the Fund Services business and building multinational teams running multinational initiatives. Programs included data center migration and consolidation, remote/home office collaboration and remote works strategies, BCP, IT DRP, IT Operations and expense management programs, international right placement initiatives, and large technology transformation initiatives (M&A).

  • The last seven years of his career have been entrepreneurially focused, working with IT service providers to transform their businesses (technology and operations) as well as bringing several cloud SaaS solutions to market, including cloud backup and recovery, cloud disaster recovery, and cloud business continuity management platforms. This encompassed not just technology but also product management, technology development, fund raising, and financial operations, taking companies from startup to exit, including taking a company public in Canada.

 

 

John Annand

Advisory Practice Director

  • John Annand is a Director in the Infrastructure team at Info-Tech Research Group. His work thus far has focused on refining the technology roadmapping process to ensure IT activities align to business needs as well as modernization projects in networking, storage, and the data center.

  • At Info-Tech, John’s broad understanding across many IT domains has helped inform his research into the challenges that traditional organizations experience in the face of modern technologies such as cloud and software-defined infrastructure. He has assisted clients in developing strategies to respond to the change and opportunities these converging technologies present. Prior to joining Info-Tech, John spent 18 years as a Sales Executive and Branch Manager in the VAR community, developing technical solutions and managed services targeted at the small enterprise. He also consulted for the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo on a variety of projects including VDI, high-performance computing, and desktop management.

  • John attended the University of Guelph and holds various certifications from Microsoft, HP, Cisco, and VMware.

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