What is a Digital Human?

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by Matt

That was the first thought on my mind when I had the opportunity to meet with 3Lateral in Serbia, the next thought was how could we at NetApp help to bring this to life by working to build 3Lateral... Read More

Increasing your impact in virtual events

Posted on March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 by Matt

If your calendar is now like mine then every face to face meeting, group presentation and event just became a webex, zoom, skype or teams session. How do you keep people engaged and ensure they partic... Read More

If it doesn’t connect to, or integrate with the cloud, you shouldn’t buy it

Posted on February 26, 2020February 28, 2020 by Matt

According to the latest ESG research 97% of companies are already either using cloud or have active plans in place to start using the cloud, regardless of what your position is within your companies I... Read More

Who are you and why should I care?

Posted on January 8, 2020March 6, 2020 by Matt

It’s a fair question and when I think about many of the meetings I have, when you cut to the heart of what the person that I’m meeting with is actually thinking then on many occassions thi... Read More

What I’ve learnt from public speaking

Posted on December 17, 2019March 13, 2020 by Matt

I was recently asked for some of the lessons I’ve learnt, or guidelines I follow when I’m getting ready for a talk. After sharing them I was asked if I would consider sharing them more bro... Read More

Am I ‘ever trapped’ with my storage investment?

Posted on August 8, 2019August 12, 2019 by Matt

Are you thinking about buying into one of these ‘storage forever’ programs? You know the ones, buy now with 6 years gold support and get free controllers or credits in 3 years’ time. You could b... Read More

How little IT users consider IT costs

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by Matt

This is probably a familiar story, a while back now someone had the great idea of creating a new corporate powerpoint slide deck with around 100 different slides of various shapes and formats as Maste... Read More

It’s HCI Jim but not as we know it

Posted on June 24, 2019June 26, 2019 by Matt

As I saw the news from IDC on how they are expanding their definition of hyperconverged systems to include those that are disaggregated in nature such as our NetApp HCI, I immediately started thinking... Read More

With Data, what’s above it and below it really matters!

Posted on April 26, 2019June 18, 2019 by Matt

If you aren’t aware of the capabilities below your Data then you may be missing out on huge opportunities above it. I remember many years ago NetApp used to describe ourselves as a Data Manageme... Read More

Changing demands and expectations – talking SMAC

Posted on February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 by Matt

Just as interesting to me as technology progress is the pace of change that we see because of the impact of mobile technologies, social tools and the acceleration in the pace of life. My talk at a rec... Read More

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