Sponsor: NetApp
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Roger Cox, Jay Kidd, Brian Denton
Type: Video (26 minutes)
Unified storage is an important tool that can help address many existing data center challenges, including helping you get power, cooling and space utilization under control. If you’re in the midst of redesigning your data center - or establishing a new infrastructure model - unified storage should be a key element of that effort. But what is unified storage exactly? What are the requirements and benefits of a unified storage solution? Find out in this new program now.
In this Webcast, industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NetApp and ExamWorks, Inc., will provide insight into the emerging trend of unified storage.
First, Roger Cox, Research Vice President at Gartner will outline what makes a system unified. He’ll examine why unified storage is so important right now. And he’ll discuss some of the key benefits of unified storage.
- Learn about the new tasks that can be performed as a result of unified storage.
- Hear about the features you should look for when purchasing unified storage.
- Find out how to choose a vendor that actually offers unified systems out of all those that merely claim that they do.
Then Jay Kidd, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and Development at NetApp will discuss how a unified storage architecture can help you move to the virtualized data center.
- Hear how a unified storage architecture can make your organization more competitive.
- Discover how a unified storage approach can affect overall IT costs.
- And find out what the experts think the future of unified storage will look like.
And lastly, you will hear Brian Denton, Chief Technology Officer at ExamWorks, the leading independent medical examination service for the insurance and legal industries, discuss the major IT and storage challenges his company solved with a unified storage architecture.
Bottom line, unified storage can improve your total cost of ownership by reducing the complexity of managing and provisioning your storage infrastructure. Want to learn more about how your company can benefit from unified storage? Watch this new program now.
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About Jay Kidd, Senior VP, Product Strategy & Development, Storage Solutions Group, NetApp
Jay Kidd is the senior vice president of the Product Strategy and Development, Storage Solutions Group at NetApp. In that role he has responsibility for the company’s product development portfolio strategy, technical alliance relationships, and NAS, SAN, Data Protection, and Manageability Business Units. He is a member of the executive staff and the Strategy Council.
Kidd has extensive cross-functional experience in storage, networking, and high-performance systems. Before holding this role, Jay was the chief marketing officer at NetApp and also ran the Emerging Products Group. Prior to joining NetApp, he held the position of chief technology officer and vice president of Product Management at Brocade, where he was vital to developing and implementing the Brocade product road map, including infrastructure and strategic evangelism.
Before joining Brocade, Kidd was vice president of Marketing for Omneon Video Networks, Inc., a supplier of storage and networking equipment for video broadcasters; and Multigen, a real-time 3D simulation software company.
Prior to working at Multigen, Kidd spent seven years at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he directed product management and marketing efforts for the graphics workstations, servers, and SGI Web systems business. He also worked at Hewlett Packard, where he held key engineering and product marketing management positions in the Information Networks Group.
Kidd holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. He is married with three children.
About Brian K. Denton, Chief Technology Officer, ExamWorks
Brian K. Denton is Chief Technology Officer of ExamWorks. He is responsible for the development and integration of the company's systems and software platform. Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Kodak Dental Systems and Director of Information Technology for AJC International. Brian is a recognized as an innovator and named in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal and White Papers by Bomgar Corporation and VMware. He has been a member of several Fortune 1000 technical advisory boards. Brian has more than 10 years focused on medical and dental technology and over 30 years of IT experience. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Georgia.
About Roger Cox, Research VP, Gartner
Roger Cox is a research vice president in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Global Storage Research unit. His focus encompasses disk storage systems, technology and market views. During his career with Gartner, Mr. Cox has worked with all the leading and many of the emerging storage companies, assisting them to develop winning product and go-to-market strategies, as well as compelling product positioning and messaging strategies. In addition to handling hundreds of inquiries annually from end users and investment and vendor clients, he is responsible for developing credible vendor market share and forecast reports for the external controller-based disk storage market. Mr. Cox is the lead author for many Gartner-branded research reports, including the Magic Quadrant for midrange disk arrays; SWOT reports for EMC, NetApp and IBM storage; Cool Storage Vendors report and Key Issues for Storage report. He also serves as the Research Agenda manager for Gartner's Global Storage Research community.
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Cox worked for Adaptec, where he was responsible for worldwide RAID product marketing. Before that, he co-founded Integra Technologies to develop RAID storage management software.
