INTERFACE Portland
Presented by Ray Kalmbach, Global Head of Hybrid Workloads for Partners • NetApp
Organizations are simultaneously pursuing cloud transformation, cyber resilience, data infrastructure modernization, and artificial intelligence. In every case, data is at the heart of the transformation—but most existing infrastructure was not designed for this moment.
This session introduces the concept of Intelligent Data Infrastructure (IDI)—an operating model where a unified data platform, integrated control plane, and data management services can manage any data, for any application, anywhere it’s needed—optimized, secured, and protected by intelligence. Using a Problem → Alternatives → Solution framework, we will examine common pitfalls and successful patterns across key domains: cloud services, cyber resilience and data protection, enterprise applications and databases, virtualization and containers, and AI & data lakes.
Attendees will leave with a reference model and practical checklist to evaluate their environment and define concrete next steps toward a more intelligent, resilient, and AI‑ready data infrastructure—without reference to any specific vendor or product.