Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Duration: 1 hour
Improving sustainability is very much on the agenda of most enterprise IT teams. However, achieving this amidst a global pandemic, supply chain disruption, staff shortages and tightened IT budgets can make this task seem impossible & costly.
In this webinar, Omdia Analyst Vlad Galabov, President of ITRenew, Ali Fenn and Steve Helvie from the Open Compute Project will delve into recertified open compute solutions, available today, that offer IT buyers a practical way to increase sustainability AND remove supply chain and budget obstacles.
Join us as we discuss:
- The benefits of open architecture
- Comparisons of the CAPEX & OPEX gains of utilizing energy-efficient recertified equipment, and the time to market
- Total cost of ownership advantages of building IT infrastructure with smart technology that is sustainably built
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Ali Fenn, President, ITRenew
Ali oversees all revenue channels at ITRenew and leads strategy for the company’s Circular Cloud initiatives, including principally the development of modeling, analytics platforms, and new business and market development. Ali has been building enterprise and cloud technology companies for 20+ years, and previous to ITRenew, was the CEO of Impact Atlas, a real-time analytics SaaS platform company in the global development sector. Prior to that, Ali led WW market development for cloud systems and solutions at Seagate, and held executive leadership positions at Wyse Technology, BEA Systems, and several SaaS companies in the enterprise space. Ali holds an Economics degree from Yale, an EMPA from the London School of Economics and served as an advisor to the UN Technology Innovation Lab’s Open Source and IP Advisory Group.
Vladimir Galabov, Head of Cloud and Data Center Research Practice
Vlad is responsible for the cloud and data center research practice’s expanding roadmap, focused on disruptive trends such as the shift to edge computing, the evolution of compute silicon, and the need for efficiency improvements and sustainability in the data center industry. Vlad joined Omdia, formerly IHS Markit Technology, in 2016. He developed many of our unique, industry-leading analyses including our flagship open computing equipment research and our three-way server market reconciliation process. He’s held senior positions at Intel and Ciena, where his data-led insights served as a central input into the companies’ strategies.
Steve Helvie, VP, Channel, Open Compute Project (OCP)
Steve is currently the VP of Channel for the Open Compute Project (OCP). In this role he helps to educate organisations on the benefits of open hardware designs and the value of “community-driven” engineering for the data center. He’s an advocate for open-source business models and the decarbonization of IT supply chains and data centers.