Sponsor: NetApp
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Robert E. Passmore, Philip Brotherton, Joe Honan
Type: Video (35 minutes)
For most organizations, enterprise messaging is a business-critical application that is central to employee communication, collaboration and productivity. Not surprisingly, many organizations today are looking to Microsoft Exchange 2010 for their enterprise messaging and unified communications needs. To get the most value of their Exchange 2010 enterprise messaging system, organizations need a highly reliable and cost-effective data storage infrastructure. In this webcast, thought leaders from Gartner, NetApp and Janalent examine key considerations in planning and implementing an efficient and highly available storage infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments.
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About Philip Brotherton, Vice President and General Manager, Virtualization and Enterprise Applications Business Unit, NetApp
Philip Brotherton is the vice president and general manager of NetApp's Virtualization and Enterprise Applications Business Units. His business units focus on optimizing NetApp's solutions for next generation enterprise data centers. Prior to leading the business units, Brotherton ran NetApp's Global Alliance Programs focused on Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware.
Before NetApp, Brotherton was vice president of marketing at JNI Corp., a leading provider of storage area networking infrastructure. He was also a vice president of marketing at Acta Technologies, a data integration software company. Throughout the 90s, he worked at Hewlett-Packard in various executive engineering and marketing roles focused on enterprise servers, storage and SAN infrastructure. Brotherton also held engineering positions with Teledyne and Hughes Aircraft Company.
Brotherton holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business as well as an engineering degree from UC Santa Barbara's School of Engineering. He lives in California's Silicon Valley with his wife and two sons.
About Joe Honan, COO & Vice President - Solutions, Janalent
Joe is the COO & Vice President of Solutions for Janalent, a leading technology solutions provider. He is responsible for the creation of Janalent's solutions business strategy, channel partnerships, and all global professional services operations. Joe is an internationally known expert in collaboration, unified communications, and messaging technologies with over 18 years' experience leading complex, multi-national technology implementation and migration projects. He has been instrumental in leading teams delivering many of the world's largest and most complex Microsoft Exchange projects for customers on five continents. Under his leadership Janalent has deployed or migrated over 4.5 million mailboxes and has been honored with numerous industry awards and Microsoft's 2009 World Wide Partner of the Year for Unified Communications & Messaging.
Joe serves as a frequent panelist speaker for several industry associations, tradeshows, broadcast media programs, and is a member of several philanthropic and outreach organizations, including the Millennium Foundation; a Clinton Global Initiative.
Joe and his wife split their time between their Las Vegas home and his Pacific Northwest roots.
About Robert E. Passmore, Research Vice President, Gartner
Bob Passmore, Ph.D., is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he focuses on storage. His primary research coverage is storage networking, which includes SAN (FC and iSCSI), NAS, fabric, management software, storage arrays and organizational issues.
Mr. Passmore has 33 years of experience in IT, 24 of them in development, strategy and marketing of storage products with Compaq, Digital, Shugart and HP.
