Believe it or not, the data storage spaces at large companies - which are often used to host the entire IT infrastructure, including bare metal servers, networking, and silos of critical storage components from different vendors - can take up entire floors of office space or require renting space from a co-location third-party data center. Now, with the help of professionals, companies have found innovative ways to manage data storage, taking up less space and resources than before. As more focus shifts to cloud storage and leaner approaches, systems engineers are leading the way. They help maintain data infrastructure and security while modernizing data centers with creative and innovative solutions, like reducing space requirements and implementing power cooling. Kiran Jewargi has been working in these roles for over 22 years, giving him a unique perspective of having seen technology's evolution over the last two decades.
Kiran studied Industrial Electronics Technology at the Datta Meghe College of Engineering. His studies build the foundation that he still works with today, though the technology landscape has changed considerably since Kiran was at the university. Through work experience across many different industries, he has become an expert in storage controller architecture, data migration methodology, on-prem infrastructure solutions, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, analyzing performance storage, and more.
As a systems engineer, Kiran acts largely as an advisor, assisting his clients and employers in the design and build process of complex technical architecture. He focuses on using high-end enterprise storage, hybrid and multi-cloud platforms, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions that can change the landscape of their legacy system infrastructure. Many technological advancements and assessment tools, such as artificial intelligence, automation, data, and sizing analysis, need to have updated data systems to be optimized. As organizations aim for better data reliability, availability, and capabilities, system engineering is the first step.
Kiran has served customers that offered services in banking, energy, stock trading, retail, insurance, and even software. Sometimes, these projects take place within a single country, and other times, Kiran supports massive multinational transformation for his largest clients.
At a utility company, the priority was modernizing the data center and bringing it into the 21st century. The company wanted IT to have a faster response while also modernizing infrastructure and lowering company costs through automation. Kiran proposed the consolidation of the organization's 18 storage arrays with 4PB of data across multiple data centers to just two high-end, all-flash enterprise storage arrays. His efforts saved his client $2 million per year in system maintenance and reduced the need for storage space, power, and cooling by 90%, saving another $800,000 each year. Kiran proposed the customized data migration methodology, strategy, and techniques to migrate 4PB of data to the new data center without impacting the critical production environment. He also ensured customer deadlines were met, freeing up data center space and saving millions of dollars in space renewals.
At a multinational technology company, Kiran was asked to reconfigure the organization's video surveillance solution. The legacy solution was costing $750,000 per year and slowing company processes down. Kiran designed a hyperconverged solution that ran video surveillance software and storage archiving for 120 days. This new approach allowed data centers to correct issues with more speed and efficiency than ever before. Kiran's solution made real-time video available to customers and also made archive footage far more readily available to security teams when needed. After piloting the new system at a few sites, it was decided that Kiran's more reliable solution would be rolled out worldwide and fully replace the existing video surveillance system.
Today, Kiran works as a systems engineer at Dell Technologies where he advances storage solutions, works with clients to achieve their goals, and refines Dell's technical infrastructure as needed. Systems engineers are often looked at as purely technical resources, and while the role requires a large technical skill set, Kiran is evidence that systems engineers do so much more. They are business consultants that help bring organizational goals to life using technology. In today's landscape, organizations will need to adopt cutting-edge technologies and tools, but the right infrastructure has to be in place before creative and innovative solutions can be brought to life.
Outside of excelling as a certified systems engineer, Kiran is also an author of technical papers, a mentor, a training expert, and a member of Threws, an international research organization. He is an active participant in the Scholars Academic and Scientific Society as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in India. He has a long history of judging The Stevie Awards and is skilled in many technical applications. Kiran is certified in Microsoft Azure, Dell Cloud Technology, and Hitachi Solution Architecture. He is ever-committed to becoming better professionally and personally, and his work is evidence of that.
Kiran loves being able to take ideas from nothing to major, transformational projects. Working with non-technical business partners, he is tasked with simplifying technical processes to help organizations understand exactly what the new system will look like. Data infrastructure is so much more than storage, networking, and servers and no matter what challenge he's presented with, Kiran has a long-running history of delivering astounding results.
