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Storage Field Day 19: Getting Back to My Roots
12Jan By Gina MinksNo Comments
Tech Field Day, product strategy

Storage Field Day 19: Getting Back to My Roots

I’m excited that I have been invited to be a delegate at Storage Field Day 19. This is a little different than the Tech Field Day I attended in 2019, because the focus of all the presentations at this event is data storage. I am looking forward to this because I am a storage person. My career started as a Technical Trainer at EMC, I was a storage admin for a pharma company. I went back to EMC to develop technical training, I then went to work for Dell Storage, and then Inktank (a startup that provided services and support for Ceph). I guess you could say storage is in my blood, so Storage Field Day should be lots of fun. What to expect at Storage Field Day Here are the companies we’ll be visiting (in the order they will be presenting), and what I’m looking forward to hearing ...
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NetApp Goes to the Cloud #TFD20
11Dec By Gina MinksNo Comments
Tech Field Day

NetApp Goes to the Cloud #TFD20

This post - NetApp Goes to the Cloud - is my review of materials presented at #TFD20. NetApp’s 1st presentation at #TFD20 was about NetApp's cloud strategy. I was very excited to see Nick Howell (aka @DatacenterDude), NetApp’s Global Field CTO for Cloud Data Services, there to greet us and kick things off.  I’ve always known him to be knowledgeable, visionary, and a bit controversial. All of my favorite things! And I was psyched to see how he was going to frame his conversation. Infrastructure Admin’s Journey to the Cloud Nicks’ presentation was titled “OK, Now What?” An Infrastructure Admin’s Journey to the cloud. https://youtu.be/0937GkO9U5s He set up the history of things for datacenter admins, and how quickly they need use their existing skills to pivot if they’re g...
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