What’s Next — TCM’s Vishnu Naidoo and Phillip Ambartzakis discuss IBM’s storage and energy efficiency solutions

In this What’s Next with Aki Anastasiou interview, Technology Corporate Management (TCM) solution experts Phillip Ambartzakis and Vishnu Naidoo discuss IBM’s use of AI and machine learning for power and storage management.

Ambartzakis is a Senior Account Executive for External Sales at TCM, and has been in the IT industry for almost three decades. He has worked with IBM products and solutions since 1998.

Ambartzakis was initially an IBM Advisory Telesales Brand Specialist, before becoming an IBM X-Series Sales Specialist in 2003 — and ultimately an IBM System X Brand Manager.

Then, in 2014, he joined TCM as a presales manager, before taking on his current role a year later. In this position, he assists customers on their business journeys — bringing value through new technology innovation.

Naidoo is the Technical Solutions Architect for Presales at TCM. He started his career as a Technical Support Engineer at IMS in 1991, and joined IBM as an IT Specialist in 1998.

In his position at TCM, he specialises in data centre infrastructure and prides himself on meeting the solution design needs of TCM’s customers.

The interview

In this What’s Next interview, Ambartzakis and Naidoo discuss IBM’s use of AI and machine learning to improve Power Systems efficiency and Storage management.

Naidoo talks about the key innovations in IBM’s Power Systems and Storage solutions that empower customers to confront their business challenges.

He also explains how IBM is integrating AI and machine learning into its Power Systems and Storage products to enhance performance, and unpacks the advancements being made in performance tuning.

Ambartzakis details the key features that differentiate IBM Power Systems from competing solutions and architectures.

He also provides insight into how IBM is addressing storage efficiency to benefit their customers — including through data compression and energy consumption.

Watch the full What’s Next interview below.