Hemant is part of the Systems & Technology Group, Sales Program team, leading the Infrastructure Business in the ASEAN region. His primary focus is on the Smart Planet Initiative, and on Dynamic Infrastructure that forms a key pillar of Smart Planet. Hemant is also the Green IT Advocate for the region. One trend that Hemant is following passionately, is Cloud Computing, and he is focused on keeping this domain “real”. He has a special passion for Energy Efficiency Solutions, GRID, and Virtualisation, as key technologies supporting the evolving trends in Dynamic Infrastructure.
Hemant has had an extended and varied career in IT environments across more than 31 years; first as a customer for 22 years: with IT groups in automobile, and consumer electronics industries, before turning vendor 9 years ago. He has deep understanding of technology – which he deployed during his “customer” phase - and an equally broad grasp of the interactions between hardware, software, applications and ofcourse business. He is passionate in his pursuit of bringing the “solutions” relief to IBM’s customers in fulfillment of IBM’s Infrastructure Optimisation strategy powered by STG’s Client focus transformation.
