meet the fourteen most popular speakers coming to insight 2014

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Meet the Fourteen Most Popular Speakers Coming to Insight 2014

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This year NetApp Insight is bigger and better than ever. We are bringing over 200 speakers to Las Vegas and Berlin breakout sessions alone. This doesn’t include sponsor or customer speakers, and other expertise-building experiences across the conference. With such an array of thought leadership taking the floor, you will have plenty of learning opportunities to fill your schedule. While all of our speakers are amazing, we want to highlight fourteen of the most popular to watch out for.


Benjamin is a technical marketing engineer with a focus on SAN and block protocols in Data ONTAP. Since setting up his first SAN-capable clustered ONTAP storage controller in 2011 his mission has been to broaden and deepen the SAN knowledge of customers, partners, and coworkers, and increase the scope of NetApp's SAN-focused solutions.

Benjamin Krieger NetApp

Sessions: §  CR-2-2114 Scalable SAN Best Practices in the Next Major

Release of Clustered Data ONTAP

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Charlotte is a technical marketing engineer specializing in MetroCluster and Clustered Data ONTAP. She has been at NetApp for six plus years and her previous roles have focused on scale-out computing, non-disruptive operations, and system management. Her interests include developing realistic use cases, driving best practices and demonstrating tangible benefits with NetApp solutions.

Charlotte Brooks NetApp

Sessions: §  DP-2-1780 Introduction to MetroCluster

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Jeffrey Steiner became a NetApp customer in 1995. Over the following years, he worked for an Oracle OEM which was eventually acquired by Oracle where he was responsible for the Oracle Retail IT infrastructure. He joined NetApp in 2006 working in professional services, eventually taking a role as the principal architect for NetApp's enterprise application solutions.

Jeffery Steiner NetApp

Sessions: §  DB-1-1127 Oracle Databases: Why Choose NetApp? §  DB-2-1128 Flash That Database—Oracle Edition §  DB-2-1129 Oracle on NetApp Worst Practices: Customer Edition

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Neto is a proud NetApp employee and Brazilian. Since 2000, he has been working as systems engineer, consulting systems engineer for Latin America and Caribbean and now as a technical architect. During these 14 years, he has been working to assist NetApp in achieving assigned revenue goals, to manage and evolve a comprehensive technology collaboration and support, to provide technical consultation and disseminating product information for the field and NetApp and be an expert in a product (NetApp) and the database market.

Neto from Brazil NetApp

Sessions: §  DB-2-1141 Deep Dive Performance Analysis—Oracle AWR §  DB-2-1600 Oracle Databases on Clustered Data ONTAP

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Peter has over 27 years experience as an instructor, SE, TME and CSE – about half at NetApp. He is currently a solution architect on the NetApp vTME team as well as the badged on-site alliance engineer at VMware HQ. He designs best practices and how to's for vSphere on NetApp. He has VCP3, 4 and 5 and NetApp NCIE. He holds a patent for technology related to cloning of virtual machines.

Peter Learmonth NetApp

Sessions: §  VI-2-2235 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 3a: Avoiding the Seven

Deadly Sins of VMware Storage Networking, Part 1 §  VI-2-2243 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 1: VMware on Clustered

Data ONTAP New Tricks and Best Practice Update v4 §  VI-3-2236 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 3b: Avoiding the Seven

Deadly Sins of VMware Storage Networking, Part 2, Advanced

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Scott has over 20 years of experience in IT and has been with Red8 for over 13 years. Scott has extensive experience with GX and cDOT via a variety of pre-sales engagements, architecture and design, installs and migrations with Fortune 500 customers. He has worked closely with NetApp on numerous training and education initiatives related to both 7-Mode and cDOT including authoring MultiStore labs and cDOT Transition, instructing at worldwide NetApp Insight Conferences. He is also a member of the exam authoring teams for 7-mode/ cDOT NCDA certification.

Scott Gelb Red8

Sessions: §  CR-3-2111 Clustered Data ONTAP Transition, Approach, and

Solutions

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Glenn is a Reference Architect in the Infrastructure Cloud Engineering team at NetApp, where he specializes in Cloud and Automation. Since joining NetApp, Glenn has delivered a variety of Microsoft based solutions ranging from general best practice guidance to co-authoring the FlexPod DataCenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track reference architecture.

Glenn Sizemore NetApp

Sessions: §  II-3-1960 Architecting FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud

(Hyper-V) §  MS-2-1961 NetApp Solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V

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Greg is a member of NetApp’s cloud solution group with a focus on OpenStack Architecture and solutions using NetApp storage systems. His primary focus is to work with members of the field to identify, develop and provide solutions needed in the OpenStack space using NetApp storage. Greg has been part of the NetApp team for eight years.

Greg Loughmiller NetApp

Sessions: §  CL-2-2061 OpenStack and Manila: The NetApp Differentiator for

File Share Services

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Corey is the strategic technical alliance manager for NetApp Australia and New Zealand, focusing on key NetApp alliance partners such as Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix and SAP. Corey has 17 years of experience in the technology sector, specializing in systems engineering and solutions architecture. In his current role, Corey engages with key NetApp alliance partners to provide in-depth technical details and specialist knowledge on how NetApp solutions integrate with the alliance partner solutions.

Corey Adolphus NetApp

Sessions: §  MS-3-1922 How to Clone Just About Everything Microsoft

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Chris has been in the IT industry for 16 years and is a senior technical marketing engineer leading NetApp and VMware end user computing solutions in our virtualization business unit. Chris is the author of the NetApp All-Flash FAS Solution for Nonpersistent Desktops VMware Horizon View, NetApp and VMware View Solutions Guide and NetApp and VMware VDI Best Practices. He’s a VMware Certified Professional 3, 4, and 5 and was awarded VMware vExpert 2010 through 2014.

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Chris Gebhardt NetApp

Sessions: §  VI-2-2024 VDI Design, Architecture, and Best Practices for Citrix

and VMware §  VI-2-2142 Driving Down the Cost of Virtual Desktops with NetApp

All-Flash Arrays


Duncan has spent the last 14 years at NetApp working to build solutions to solve customer problems in the areas of backup and recovery, disaster recovery, object storage and storage security. He joined NetApp in 1999 to work on NetApp's first, and industry leading, replication product SnapMirror and since then has been involved with many other industry firsts including: Unified primary/secondary storage deduplication, near-line storage appliances as well as integrations with leading data protection software vendors.

Duncan Moore NetApp

Sessions: §  PL-1-1923 Introduction to NetApp StorageGRID (new release)

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Kevin Hill is a solutions architect working in NetApp’s Cloud solutions group where to help define Cloud solutions and strategies. Kevin has been with NetApp for 10 years. “I can tell you I’ve never been this excited about what we have to offer our customers, and how we can help them get the most out of their Clouds.”

Kevin Hill NetApp

Sessions: §  CL-1-2245 Managing Your Hybrid Cloud with Cloud Manager §  CL-2-2246 Deep Dive on Clustered Data ONTAP in the Cloud

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Chris is a reference architect in the NetApp infrastructure and cloud engineering team and is focused on creating, validating, supporting, and evangelizing solutions based on NetApp products. Before being employed in his current role, he worked with NetApp product engineers designing and developing innovative ways to perform Q&A for NetApp products, including enablement of a large grid infrastructure using physical and virtualized compute resources.

Chris Reno NetApp

Sessions: §  II-2-1977 FlexPod Solutions with Cisco Application-Centric

Infrastructure (ACI)

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Sandra is a senior technical marketing engineer at NetApp, specializing in transition to Clustered Data ONTAP. She has been in the industry for over 20 years and at NetApp for five plus years. She has written extensively on many aspects of the storage industry, authoring technical reports, training materials and presentations on NetApp and other vendor products.

Sandra Moulton NetApp

Sessions: §  CR-1-1825 Where to Start If You Want to Transition to Clustered

Data ONTAP §  CR-2-1826 How Does the 7-Mode Transition Tool Work?

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