“The cloud has become the clear way forward for cost-efficiencies, scalability and simplicity in data management,” said Ken Dai, chief strategy officer for PROMISE Technology. “As the IT computing moves from traditional enterprise applications on SAN/NAS storage to SaaS model and data intensive applications running in private and public clouds, CIOs must look for solutions that can be tightly coupled for compute, storage hardware and network functions in a easy to manage software layer that provides provisioning, backup, recovery, replication and migration. Promise Technology has been helping our customers for over 25 years to address scalability, complexity and lowering the total cost of ownership.” At the Expo, Dai will host a presentation that previews PROMISE’s soon-to-be-announced cloud hyper-converged solution, which will bring computing, networking and storage capabilities – all on a single system and with scale-out capabilities. Any application running on this infrastructure can allocate resources (computing/networking/storage) and usage based on a ‘software-defined’ approach.