[NCSA] Jan 13 Meeting - Squeezing more out of your storage; Dollars, Efficiency and Performance

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

Topic:          Squeezing more out of your storage; Dollars, Efficiency and Performance
Speaker:     Richard Swain - IBM
Time:           Monday, January 13, 2014, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Place:          TEKsystems, Raleigh, NC


1. How we are doing now in storage
2. Software defined storage
3. How Flash changes the game
4. Compression and Dedupe, where and when.
5. Wrap up and Q&A

bio:
Richard
 Swain is an IT Specialist working in the Sales and Distribution group 
based in Research Triangle Park, of
 North Carolina, US. Currently Richard is working as the Storage 
Engineering Team Lead for the Carolinas Region at IBM. He is responsible
 for architecting enterprise and mid size storage systems including 
Tape, Flash and Disk systems. Richard’s interest at IBM has been with 
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) products, including Scale out NAS (SoNAS)
 and the N series Storage platform within the IBM OEM partnership with 
Netapp. Richard graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 
with a Bachelor of Science degree. In his 16 years in IT, Richard has 
moved through the ranks as a Network Specialist, Exchange Administrator,
 Storage and Systems Engineer, and Sales Engineer. 

Richard
 writes several blogs for IBM and other storage related interest.  His 
articles reach thousands of readers world wide and have been included in
 websites such as ComputerWorld, The Register and Triangle Business 
Journal.  Richard is also an author of
 a Redbook for
 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and is currently working on another  
Redbook.  He has spoken and conferences all around the world about his 
perceptive on storage and how the storage industry still strives while 
other parts of the IT industry are waning.   
Outside of
 work, Richard enjoys music, beer making and gardening.  He is married 
with two beautiful children and live in Cary NC with their dog Riley.