Pure Leadership Series: All-Flash

Making the All-Flash Data Center a Business Reality: A CXO Perspective

The lure of an all-flash data center is obvious, even for non-IT leaders. Caught between rapid digital transformation and a data surge, business leaders are struggling to scale their legacy storage systems, reduce complexity and balance budgets. The global call for carbon footprint reduction and more efficient energy usage to meet ESG goals is creating new headaches for businesses drowning in data. So, why has it taken so long for an all-flash data center alternative to become a reality?

Join your peers and us to learn the why’s, what’s and how’s of all-flash data centers and why we are finally realizing the all-flash data center dream. This Pure Leadership Series webinar, designed for CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CFOs, and data storage teams, will take a C-level perspective and tie business goals and challenges to current flash innovation. Along the way, you will find out the latest advances in all-flash storage, why the ESG case has made the business case stronger, and how leading companies and your peers are pursuing an all-flash data center agenda.

Key takeaways we’ll discuss:

The CXO perspective for creating the business case for all-flash data centers, and what has changed with new innovation
Macro and micro trends that all CXOs need to keep in mind and how the all-flash data centers offer a smarter alternative
Tips, lessons and vital considerations from experts and peers for transforming your data center strategy into an all-flash one

Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and DataOpsTrends

Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.

Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally. Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).

As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.

Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events.