NetApp Blogs

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Dave's Blog:
Dave Hitz - Founder and Executive Vice President

A big part of my job is listening to smart people who know about storage, digesting what they say and reflecting on it, and then turning that into my own opinion. Then when I share my thoughts, they get distributed randomly to whoever I happen to be talking to. So why am I doing a blog? I figured that if I'm going to be having ideas and sharing them, I might as well collect them in one place.

On The Edge:
Brian Pawlowski - Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Brian shares his opinions and observations about NFS and its future, SAN (iSCSI and FC), Linux and open source, application and storage virtualization, and Advanced Development.

Lessons from a Life of Service:
Rusty Walther - Senior Vice President of Global Support

Rusty’s Rants on Leadership, Technology, Customers Support, and Corporate Survival.

Incorrigible Techno-Weenie:
Chris Bennett - Vice President of Core Systems

Chris shares his observations about the intersection of personal and enterprise technology.

Storage Nuts & Bolts:
Nick Triantos - Global Systems Engineer

Focusing primarily on the technical aspect of storage and provide commentary, views and solutions that are useful to the end-users.

Simple Steve:
Steve Klinkner - NetApp Engineering Developer

Steve shares his opinions and observations about whole product issues, design simplicity, and user interfaces.

Add Mayo:
Kelvin Mayo - Director of Services Engineering

Kelvin shares his opinions and observations about Innovations in operations and storage impacting the the data center and IT operational personnel.

The Adventures of a Storage Researcher in Industrial Labs:
Kaladhar Voruganti - Technical Director in the NetApp Advanced Technology Group

Kaladahar provides analysis on key trends in storage and other related areas, analysis on research being performed at various universities, analysis on some of the key publicly available research contributions being made by NetApp people and products, analysis on some key published technical papers.

Eisler's NFS Blog:
Michael Eisler - Senior Technical Director

Michael is the co-author of the RFC3530, the NFSv4 specification and he is currently an editor for the NFSv4.1 specification. Michael works for NetApp on NFS and things related to NFS. He was the primary author for RFC2203, which adds real security to NFS, and led the SEAM project at Sun that produced the first NFS implementation that used Kerberos V5 authentication.

WHU Who!?
James Burke - Member of Technical Staff SW

Focusing on Windows – installation, multipathing, device drivers, and internals. A lot of my job is device driver installation, setup design, and looking at Windows through a debugger.

Standards Watch:
David Dale - Industry Evangelist and Director of Industry Standards 

What's going on in the industry, especially in the world of standards, new technologies, trends and multi-vendor collaboration activities.

Extensible NetApp: Thinking outside of the box
Kostadis Roussos - Technical Director 

Kostadis shares his opinions and observations about applications, data management and tools therein.

Dynamic Data Center:
Paul Turner - NetApp Senior Director Storage Management Technology 

Paul shares his opinions and observations about dynamic data center and integration with Server Virtualization.

The View from Drew:
Drew Meyer - Product Marketing Manager 

Drew is frequently the voice of StoreVault®, championing the availability of Enterprise technologies for the Small and Medium Business.

Exposed:
Val Bercovici - Director, Competitive Sales

Commentary on the Storage Industry from a Technology, Development and Customer perspective. A common theme will be competitive issues encountered throughout the lifecycle of storage products & data management solutions.

Wochenschau:
Thomas Höfer - Marketing Director for Germany

A particular focus of his work is on intensifying solutions marketing, the major vertical target markets and on partner management.

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The individuals who post here work at NetApp. The opinions expressed here are their own, are not necessarily reviewed in advance by anyone but the individual authors, and neither NetApp nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.