Managing the Cost and Complexity of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure | Dan McConnell, Hitachi Vantara
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 30/03/2023

Data-Driven Starts With Intelligent Infrastructure

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Dan McConnell, SVP Product Management, Enterprise Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara

More enterprises are striving to become data driven so they deliver greater value to their customers, shareholders, employees and society at large. But many are still struggling with data infrastructure. To reap the benefits, learn how companies are solving key challenges, from managing the rapid growth of data to ensuring security and compliance, in this discussion with Dan McConnell, SVP of product management, Enterprise Infrastructure.

Dan McConnell joins Hitachi Vantara with over 25 years of experience in product and solution development across multiple facets of information technology including Product Management, Engineering, and General Management disciplines. He has the proven ability to develop and execute strategic, profitable business plans with demonstrated success leading Engineering, Product Management, and Product Marketing organizations setting strategic direction and delivering product.

Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara Dan worked at Dell EMC, most recently serving as VP GM of Dell EMC’s Open Hyper-converged portfolio of products. In this capacity, Dan led a large Global Product Management and Engineering organization responsible for initiating entrance into the emerging CI/HCI market, scaling the organization & portfolio, and growing the business to over 1 billion dollars.

During his 20-year tenure at Dell EMC, he has served a wide range of leadership roles across Product Management and Engineering in the Server, Storage, and Converged business units as well as the Office of the CTO. Prior to his efforts in CI and HCI, Dan lead the Storage Product Management organization. In this capacity, Dan played key roles in the acquisition of innovative startup technologies like EqualLogic and Compellent as well as driving continued roadmap innovation, notably growing revenue of the products to over 1B, while driving the highest percentage operating income in the company.

Dan has diverse experience from high value storage and HCI portfolios to large scale server business across both scaled organizations as well as smaller agile start-up-based organizations. Through this experience, Dan has learned to appreciate the ever-changing landscape of evolving markets and that it is customer relationships and insights, backed by data-driven decisions, that provide a strategy with the foundation it needs to be successful.

Prior to Dell EMC, Dan started his career doing large scale IT and software development for database applications at Southern Company. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His home is in Austin, Texas, but will office in our Santa Clara location. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, hopefully watching a Georgia Tech or Minnesota Vikings football game, exploring a local park, or listening to live music at one of Austin’s many music venues.