Jamie Thomas

Dave Parkes

Infrastructure Solutions Architect – Hybrid IT

tse@westcoast.co.uk

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Dave’s career spans 42 years and has been spent at vendors, resellers and distributors in engineering, field service, presales and design/architecture roles. His experience centres on solving customer challenges by blending HPE Solutions with Collaborative or Pathfinder type Solutions. Dave’s CV includes HPE, Cisco, Pure, Commvault, Nutanix and Huawei certifications, while he’s also an HPCI certified training instructor.

Can help with

With an overall mission to understand customer challenges and solve them with ‘best of breed’ solutions, Dave works alongside partners to identify opportunities and help maximise them. His wide-ranging capabilities include:

Design – High Level and Low-Level Design of Customers Production Landscape

  • Focus on Compute-Networking-Storage-Backup-Restore-Security Solutions to solve Partner/Customer challenges
  • Focus on Composable-Hyperconverged Solutions – Synergy and SimpliVity (also HPE and Nutanix)

Services – Assessment Services including:

  • Audit Assessments – Performance Assessments – Performance Assessments
  • SAF and Cloud Physics – Assessment Tools to drive Data/App/Compute/Storage/Usage understanding of the Customer Infrastructure
  • Positioning of Installation/Migration Services – optimising Business Deals
  • Positioning of Sizing Services – sizing solutions to match Customer Requirements and drive accurate solution Design/Ordering/Pricing

Training – HPCI (Certified Instructor)

  • Delivering and Designing Customer Solution Training
When to contact

Get in touch with Dave to discuss:

  • Existing environment assessments/strategy
  • Future requirements/infrastructure roadmaps
  • Opportunity qualification
  • Product demonstrations
  • Solution sizing and design
  • Training and enablement
  • Hybrid cloud strategy: Compute – Storage – Network – Cloud (Data and Apps)
  • Hyperconvergence, Software Defined, and Composable Solutions
  • Consumption Solution offerings
  • DR and BC Solutions – On-Premise/Off-Premise/Cloud
  • Backup/Recovery/Archiving/Security
  • NGT (Next Generation Technologies)/Collaborative Solutions
  • Vendor Solutions that drive collaboration to solve customer challenges (Commvault/Cloudian/Cohesity – and other such as Rubrik/Pure/Exagrid/Veritas)
Key achievements

1. Being an integral part of the Collaborative Infrastructure Division for the last 4 years (Technical Director-Technical Lead) that built a Pure Solutions and NGT (Next Generation Technologies Business that is still currently growing – 90million business from scratch in 2015

2. Collaborative Solutions and Services – HPE, Commvault, and Cloudian with DTP in 2019

  1. a. Technical Lunch in London delivered by HPE-Commvault-Cloudian and Hosted by Dave Parkes for the Technical Partner Community on this solution in March 2019. (Note – Technical Community personnel are the Key Reseller Technical Teams)
  2. b. Technical Session covered the Vendor Solutions and how these Solutions work together to solve Customer challenges

3. BT – Pure, Netapp, and Rubrik design for one of their leading Customers in 2018 – 2.6million. This Customer is still positioning against Greenfield Requirements

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