Topics:
Storage OEM trends for Q4 and views on how they will be prioritized in CIO/CTO budgets in 2015
Who is gaining / losing share
Cloud Storage impact
AFA, SSDs, HDDs
Consolidation / M&A
Potential wildcards / surprises in 2015
Industry Attendees:
Joe Viviano – Sr. Manager, Specialist System Engineers at EMC
Val Bercovici – Office of the CTO at NetApp
Bill Bodei – Sr Sales Director at Kaminario which develops and provides solid-state storage system, networking, operating systems, BI and data processing products and solutions.
John Zamites – Business Unit Executive Flash Systems at IBM
Kaitlin Brodrick – Mid Market Geo Territory Manager at EMC
Steven Kaner – Vice President of OEM Sales at PNY Technologies
Joe Conwell – Chief Solutions Architect, Storage & AWS Infrastructure at Day1 Solutions
Thomas Coughlin – President & Owner at Coughlin Associates
Ryan Crosby – Managing Director, Global Head of Integrated Business Strategy at GBIC Partners. GBIC Partners provide services to technology and data functions across all different industries based on back, middle and front office positions supporting the overall desired business goals. Former Global Head of Business Integrated Solutions at Morgan Stanley.
Walter Bentley – Cloud Solutions Architect at Rackspace
Sumit Puri – Co Founder & VP of Marketing at Stealth Storage Start-Up. Former Sr Director Strategic Marketing at SandForce.
Gabe Leavell – Strategic Account Manager at Lincoln Computer Services
Bryan Samson – Sales Exec. at Mainline Storage Systems and works primarily with NA Flash Storage Sales