Steven Kaplan

Spoke about Tessell and ROI.

Why it's important to use a top IT infrastructure architect when planning a significant IT initiative.

Return on Investment: It's All About Getting Value From IT. CIOs Need to Ensure That IT Spend Is Done in a Manner That It Never Becomes an Expense

My largest keynote ever at Nutanix. I follow Nutanix CEO Rajiv and IDC at 31:40.

Is going over your IT budget a norm? It’s time to step back and see what’s driving overspending to make room for projects that matter.

Watch this quick video for fast facts on eliminating high capital expenditures and reaping the benefits of pay-as-you-grow economics.

"Our inaugural session in this series will focus on evaluating and justifying disruptive technologies. As the author of multiple books, including his latest, ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders, Steve brings unique insights around how to evaluate total cost of ownership and ROI for IT investments."

"Hear Steven Kaplan, author of The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders and frequent contributor to Forbes Magazine, explain how organizations can approach their cloud strategy with a return-on-investment (ROI) framework to help federal CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, IT managers, IT staff, and system integrators sustainably modernize their IT for the cloud era."

Hear Steven Kaplan, author of The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders and frequent contributor to Forbes Magazine, explain how organizations can approach their cloud strategy with a return-on-investment (ROI) framework to help federal CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, IT managers, IT staff, and system integrators sustainably modernize their IT for the cloud era.

Honored to be presenting w/fellow keynoters Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and David Henshall of Citrix. This opportunity resulted from my article a couple of months ago: Why Nutanix is the Best Platform for Citrix.

Join the Nutanix leadership team for an EBX (Executive Briefing Xperience) on November 18, 2020 to learn more about a new class of IT infrastructure that brings public cloud simplicity and economics to the enterprise datacenter.

The realities of the digital business demand a revamped approach to innovation. For CIOs, this means that the ideation and adoption of new methods, technologies and business models must be a refined, core competency. Join this session to build a roadmap for innovation from the fringe to the heart of the enterprise.

Legacy data protection stacks typically have not kept up with the unique demands of a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud world. Join @SimonHYCU and @ROIdude about how HYCU and Nutanix addresses these problems!

Live webinar on using financial analysis as a framework for developing an optimal hybrid cloud strategy.

Education, especially higher ed, is facing demand for a barrage of new services along with, perhaps, unprecedented pressure to reduce budgets. Steve Kaplan, author of The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders, discusses how higher ed CIOs can enhance their services while both simplifying their environments and reducing costs.

Greg White and I did a Webcast on Evaluating and Justifying Disruptive Technology

Oil & Gas Industry Podcast

IT leaders commonly face two opposing pressures: an external push to “lift and shift” everything to public cloud, and an internal pressure to maintain legacy IT “hardware-defined” architectures.

In this session, you’ll learn:

How to use ROI and TCO as building blocks for a compelling business case
Tips on creating your story to drive consensus
How to tie disruptive technology into the broader business case

Honored to speak at the HMGStrategy CIO Conference in Stamford (I presented just before the final keynote).

The RegalixTV interview about my book - and other topics.

This Nutanix article is based upon my book, The ROI Story.

Participated on panel discussion at CIO Summit

Honored to be part of CA's Live Video Broadcast Does Your Cloud Strategy Deliver in the Application Economy?

...from Keith: Does Hyperconvergence save money? I and @ROIdude have the conversation in the latest CTO Advisor

Our session set a record for most attendance for a Citrix Synergy booth session

Participated in a video with Reddo Mobility at Citrix Synergy 2015

V&C article covering the "tussle" between Nutanix & VMware initiated by my article on 10 Reasons Why Nutanix Leads the Hyper-Converged Industry

My blog post spurred a reaction from VMware's Chuck Hollis which then lead to a ton of great publicity for Nutanix about the "tiny startup that's driving VMware crazy"

"We spend a bit of time talking about what Steven does now at Nutanix vs. his role when he started."

Recognized by CRN as one of 100 People You Don't Know, but Should

Microscope (UK) article on VMware's VSAN that includes my thoughts on how it is likely to impact the partner channel.

Short video addressing MS virtualization cost claims

A quick interview by David Davis at VMworld Barcelona

Was honored to present the opening keynote at the Dallas VMUG meeting. I believe about 600 in participation overall during the day. Update: Received some very nice feedback. This helps make up for the times I've bombed... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-YHfZeIQgNJUlJKUjEyekE1bnM/edit?usp=sharing

Both Michele and I are quoted in this CRN article on the new Nutanix Partner Network launch.

Nutanix Partner Network launched. I'm quoted in the release, but definitely a huge team effort.

More CRN coverage of my joining Nutanix

CRN coverage of my new position building the Channel at Nutanix.

Cisco's Unleashing IT Magazine discusses how we helped Star College CIO, Link Alander, implement their 100,000 user private cloud solution, including the initial "back of the napkin" discussion between Link and I.

IMPROVING AGILITY AND FLEXIBILITY WITH VIRTUAL DESKTOPS IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Co-pressed along with our client Link Alander, CIO of Lone Star College. With over 100,000 students, Lone Star may be the nation's largest community college. Link and I presented on the strategy, methodologies and benefits of their virtual desktop implementation and of VDI for higher Ed in general.

Chris & I discuss __ as a Service, focusing on Cisco IAC + Cloupia vs. VMware vCloud Suite

Zerto wrote a blog post kindly crediting my tweet for the inspiration.

Participated in a Cisco video on the future of the data center in the era of cloud - at Gartner Data Center in Las Vegas.

Cisco "Unleasing IT Magazine" article featuring the work Presidio did for Concentra including my ROI analysis to help them push past VMstall. The article also made the cover story of the printed version of the magazine.

Participated in video at Cisco Live with Tony Paikeday of Cisco and with Sreekanth Kannan of VMware

Participated in Desktop virtualization video at EMC World with Josh Mello of EMC and Ravi Balakrishnan of Cisco

On stage at the Chad's World session at EMC World 2012 to be recognized as one of the first two EMC Cloud Builder partners.

Podcast guest discussing VMware PEX, cloud, social media, etc.

Moderated a panel on VDI to a standing room only packed room at Educause. Virtual Desktops in Higher Ed: Win, Lose, or Draw?

Participated in Comstor video on Executive Relevence Selling. Discusses the importance of ROI as part of a strategic approach to virtualization.

Interviewed on The Cloudcast about VM stall and VDI trends

CRN wrote a very nice 4-page article covering my keynote presentation at the opening of Westcon's LEAP Center.