Bluefin Technologies: Strategizing, Implementing & Operationalizing the IT Infrastructure Date:   Sunday , November 23, 2014 According to the global information technology research and advisory firm, Gartner, Inc., the Indian IT infrastructure market, which comprises of servers and storage and networking equipment, will total $1.9 billion in 2014, a 4 percent increase from 2013 and is expected to become a $2.35 billion market by 2017. This upbeat growth of IT, globally and within India, is fueled by constant innovations in the space of IT and the transformational effortsmade by organizations around the world. Today, enterprises are keen about embracing and adopting newer technologies, such as cloud, virtualization, and software defined networking. Unfortunately, what the industry lacks is an adeptprofessional services partner who can successfully strategize, implement and support the transformation all these enterprises will undergo. They need a partner who will guide them on this journey. BlueFin Technologies Inc. was established in 2013 with the aim of bridging this gap. With the combined experience of over 50 years in providing enterprise-class technology infrastructure solutions globally, BlueFin helps its customers through their transformational journey to adopt, operationalize, and consume cutting-edge technologies, thereby, reducing Time-to-Market and Time-to-Value and optimizing their technology ROI. BlueFin\'s knowledge, approach, end-to-end ownership, and flawless execution highlight its ability to understand the need of the clients andprovide and implementsolutions rapidly and successfully, thus, driving consumption. BlueFinhas raised the bar to a new high by providing a services portfolio that includes a host of end-to-end, innovative, and transformational solutions comprising ofcompute, storage, networking, cloud, and virtualization with methodologies focused on technology lifecycle, people, process, deployment, planning, design, migration, and support. With constant innovations and technologies evolving each day, the biggest challenge is to educate businesses about the need to embrace technology and its benefits. Dealing with the intricacy of operating in a market that is yet to mature, BlueFin Technologies helps businesses in designing and deploying strategic solutions that don\'tjust address the needs or problemsof businesses but include a complete understanding of the strategic challenges, such as risk, utilization, security, efficiency, and optimization. Being a frontrunner in the cloud and virtualization space, BlueFin employs best shoring models for delivery along with proven methodologies and best practices for project management. One key differentiator that BlueFin possesses is its ability to partner with world class leading technology companies. BlueFin is a premier partner of Microsoft. With the rapid growth in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Microsoft partners with Bluefin to help its clients adopt cloud related technologies. In addition to this partnership, BlueFin also partners with leading vendors such as NetApp, EMC, DataDynamics to help their customers realize the value of next generation technologies. Currently, BlueFin has offices in the U.S., the U.K., and India. BlueFin will soon establish an office in Singapore to support the rapid growth in that region. Enabling clients to transform their businesses by migrating to innovative technology platforms, the team at BlueFin never compromises on the values set by the company. The organization partners with the clients\' workforce and crafts solutions together that would address their unique needs and enable greater responsiveness, a bigger competitive edge, higher cost efficiencies, and core businesses expansion. \"We place great significance to accountability and continuous learning. Most of the IT infrastructure companies have a tendency to search \'a problem for a solution\' whereas we strive to \'create solutions for real business problems\'. These are the guiding principles that I believe will be the fuel for us to move ahead, giving us a competitive edge over others in the space of cloud and virtualization,\" says Rishi Agrawal, COO, Co-Founder, BlueFin Technologies Inc. This prompt and out-of-the-league way of offering services to customers has helped BlueFin build strong relationships with its customers across the globe. Panel: Services: Technology Transformational Services, Hybrid Storage Solutions, Storage Migration SAN/NAS, Application Dev/QA/Test Services, Cloud Transformation Services, Outsourced Managed Services, Microsoft StorSimple, DataDynamics StorageX Key Management Mihir Shah, CEO Before joining BlueFin, Mihir was a member of the executive leadership team at Brocade, where he was the Managing Director and VP of Corporate Development & Strategy. Prior to Brocade, Mihir held senior level roles in Corporate Development, Finance, and Sales at IBM. Prior to IBM, Mihir spent the early part of his career in investment banking and private equity. Rishi Agrawal, COO, Co-Founder Prior to founding BlueFin, Rishi was Head of BNY Mellon\'s technology center iNautix Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. at Pune. For 12 years he played a key role in strategic planning, management and services delivery with BNY Mellon at NJ and India locations. Rishi\'s core talent lies in designing, building and managing large global teams. Offices: U.S., UK and India Awards & Recognitions: Recognized by CIO Review Magazine as the Top 100 Most Promising Microsoft Partners in U.S.