Dhakshinamoorthy Balasubramanian

About Dhakshinamoorthy Balasubramanian

Core Competencies:• Demonstrable experience and deep knowledge in technical architecture design for a broad range of technologies such as compute, storage and networking• Experience of developing and managing architecture design work as part of a client engagement team• Experience of managing and performing critical analysis of technology and associated processes, with a view to recommending strategies that will improve service, lower costs and prevent avoidable operational issues• Good commercial attitude to New Business solutioning, with the ability to form solutions based on limited information and assumptions, whilst observing reference architectures and cost models• Ability to act as a technical lead to direct and support project engineers during implementation of a designed solution• Ability to design and architect solutions for large and complex requirements• Lead and own architecture activities in designing complex technical solutions involving multi-vendor, multi-cloud environments• Rich experience in evaluating multiple vendor products [techno commercial] for Managed Hosting Infrastructure and Cloud business• Analyze client technology & processes and recommend optimization and good practice improvements• Perform due diligence on proposed designs, identifying potential issues within the execution and operations architectures and recommend options• Perform impact analysis of proposed major changes to the technology landscape of customer systems• Strong client relationship management skills• Have rich experience of multiple storage technologies, SAN Fabrics, backup technologies, x86 Hardware platforms, Replication solutions• Managing multiple customer accounts as a pre-sale technical point-of-contact• Vast Experience in Handling Multitenant Storage infrastructure management• Strong skills in cross domains VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows Servers, Citrix, Cisco Catalyst & Nexus Series Ethernet fabric, HPE & Dell Rack/Blade servers

Experience

1. Storage Technical Specialist, Ibm Technology Sales, Isa

   IBM

   Jan 2020 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Sales Target Quota Attainment:1H 2020: 140.9%2H 2020: 218.5%1H 2021: 138.2%2H 2021: 47.90%1H 2022: 169.79%2H 2022: 40.39%1H & 2H 2023: 253.661%1H & 2H 2024: 131.6%1H 2025: 96.4%2H 2025: running to bring more revenue & GP• Design Storage Architectures for large environments with specific focus on Performance, Encryption, Continuous availability, Cyber Resiliency and Disaster Recovery.• Collaborate with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions• Deliver Proof of Concepts; Develop and Deliver technical education to clients and partners• Ensuring IBM Storage products remains in the pole position in India / South Asia Market.• Building phenomenal partner base and trusted customersExpertise in the following Storage Offerings:• Block Storage (DS8900F, FS9100, FS9200, FS900), Virtualization Software (SVC, Public Cloud-SV4PC)• Spectrum Protect & Protect Plus, Spectrum Copy Data Management• Tape Library (TS2900, TS4300, TS4500, TS7700-VTL)• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, PPRC, XRC, Synchronous and Asynchronous Mirroring) and 100% Hyperswap availability• Cyber Resiliency (Safeguarded Copy and Logical Corruption Protection)• Spectrum Storage Family - Spectrum Control, Spectrum Virtualize, Spectrum Scale/GPFS, Spectrum Archive, Spectrum Discover and Cloud Object Storage• ESS (Elastic Storage Server) with Spectrum Scale for HPC, AI Environments• Good understanding of AI ecosystem, accelerated computing using NVIDIA• Spectrum Fusion SDS/HCI for container based/cloud-native workloads• b-type and c-type SAN Switches, SAN Directors and FCIP Extension solutions

Education

• Government Higher Secondary School- Idumbavanam

  SSLC

  2001 — 2003

• E.G.S.Pillay Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  2005 — 2009

• Government Higher Secondary School - Thagattur

  HSC

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Vmware
• Storage Area Networks
• Brocade Fibre Switches
• Team Management
• Netapp
• Pre-Sales
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Citrix
• Vdi
• Virtualization
• Ibm San/Svc
• Cloud Computing
• Hitachi Storage
• Dell Equal Logic Storage
• Vmware Esxi
• Fortinet
• Emc Storage
• Data Center
• Vendor Management
• Cisco Systems Products
• Servers
• Itil
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Windows Server
• Microsoft Windows Servers
• Solarwinds
• Networking
• San
• Solution Architecture
• Cisco Technologies
• Cisco Mds San Switches
• Data Center Virtualization