In this intensive webcast, Active and Quantum experts explore the challenges of managing ad hoc SAN growth such as: competitive pressure, serving growing and more sophisticated user bases, end-user expectations that your content be available anywhere/anytime, assets as a monetary source, and rapid ingest of pockets of analog sources.
You will learn:
- How lagging software interoperability challenges SAN
- What developments have been game changers
- How to respond to internal and external pressures
- Availability issues including what is and is not possible today and in the future
- Advice about specific issues users have and will face
- Detailed examples of how real problems were resolved
Presenters:
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Alex Grossman, CEO, Active Storage Alex Grossman is a 20 year veteran of the storage industry and a former Senior Director at Apple where he was responsible for driving the development of Apple's server and storage products. Prior to joining Apple, Grossman was Sr. Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and New Product Development at MicroNet Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of hardware storage solutions for creative professionals and IT managers. Grossman has contributed to several patents associated with storage technology and led the team that developed the first FireWire-based Storage Area Network. |
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Claire Giordano, Senior Director of Product Management, Quantum Claire Giordano is Senior Director of Product Management of the Big Data team at Quantum, responsible for future directions and roadmap for StorNext software and appliances. Previously at Quantum, Claire directed the product effort for the DXi disk-based deduplication appliances. Earlier in her career, Claire served as a Product Management Director at A9, an Amazon.comsubsidiary, and managed the Solaris 10 engineering teams at Sun Microsystems. Claire holds a BS degree from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. In her spare spare time, Claire can be found carving turns at Sugarbowl. |
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