| Not all storage is created equal. How important is a strong foundation? | |
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| Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 12:00PM Pacific | |
NetApp and its community of customers, partners from Cisco and VMware and leading industry voices will be engaged in a great debate about storage in the midsize business space. We encourage all of you to share your thoughts and comments on the thread below, tweet using #midsizebiz hashtag, or during the live event on Tues Oct 25. Featured guests are invited to comment on the debate; to provide context and informed perspective on the subject. | |
Moderator's Opening Statement
Vice President, Research and Analyst Services Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. | As an analyst, I have participated in advisory sessions where companies view storage as disk drive byte containers or make storage purchasing decision is predicated on $ per gigabyte – those are boring. Then there are some companies that understand that not all storage is created equally. These folks try to find ways storage can do something more and are willing to make an investment. The best part is when their storage decision ultimately leads to benefits where storage isn’t even referenced – better mobile workforce collaboration, daily data integration to real-time analytics, and audit reports complete in hours not days. These things matter to large and small companies. Not all storage is created equal and not every company truly appreciates it yet. |
Participants: Global Systems Engineer, NetApp Tim Torres Vice President, Technical Operations, Merced Systems Wade Holmes Technical Solution Architect – Partner Cloud, VMware David Antkowiak Solutions Architect, Cisco and a featured guest | |
