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Rizvan Hussain

Director Analyst

Rizvan Hussain is a Director Analyst supporting heads of Infrastructure & Operations on their most pressing strategic challenges. He covers high-level data archiving, application retirement, data retention, data discovery, digital communication governance, backup and recovery and cloud strategy topics. His coverage also includes some storage topics relating to on-premise, hybrid, public cloud and edge workloads.

His experience spans over a decade of Enterprise IT operations, technologies, products, support, maintenance & configuration.

Although he dedicates most of his time to the specific needs of heads of I&O, he also provides advice to technology executives concerning emerging and innovative technologies, disruptive business models and market strategies. Rizvan's expertise along with Gartner's research are available to assist heads of I&O to assess and deploy technologies that enable an all-digital economy infrastructure plan.

Prior to this, Rizvan worked in the Electronic Point of Sales' (EPOS) industry for over a decade.

Previous experience

Hewlett Packard, Enterprise Storage & Medical Archive Technician / Administrator, 2.11 years

HTEC, EPOS Installation and Service Engineer, 0.7 years

Torex (Micros Oracle), EPOS Installation & Build Engineer and Training Co-Ordinator, 3.2 years

Torex (Micros Oracle), EPOS Service, Installation and Repair Engineer, 6.3 years

Professional background

Atos, Data Storage & Backup Analyst, 3 years

DXC Technology, ITO Service Delivery Consultant IV - Enterprise Storage & Backup, 3 years

Hewlett Packard, Enterprise Storage & Backup Consultant, 5 years

Areas of coverage
  • I&O Organizational Strategy

  • I&O Operations Management

  • I&O Platforms

Education

GCSE's

NVQ City & Guilds

Digital Photography The Open University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Use of Storage, Backup & Cloud technologies and architecture to address mission-critical priorities.

02

Developing and Operationalizing hybrid IT Cloud platforms.

03

Help clients develop their Cloud, Adoption and Migration strategies.

04

Use of E-Discovery solutions to address organizations legal and compliance requirements.

05

Use of Data Archiving solutions to address organization data retention requirements.