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Here’s to all the SysAdmins, today is your day!

Posted on July 29, 2016July 29, 2016 by Matt
SysAdmins are superheroes for the IT infrastructure of an organisation. These are the professionals who design, monitor and maintain systems for performance, who gather and assess information to ident... Read More

Should I stay or should I go now?

Posted on May 9, 2016May 12, 2016 by Matt
Probably one of the most memorable lines from any song that I remember while growing up in the UK. I was extremely fortunate to have been able to moderate a dinner the other week with colleagues from ... Read More

Your future role in IT probably doesn’t exist yet

Posted on April 30, 2016May 12, 2016 by Matt
According to the ‘World Economic Forum’, between 2015 and 2020 35% of the core skills you have today will change. What do you think these changes might be? Personally, looking back over my time w... Read More

Data Fabric Part 3 – Delivering the Benefits

Posted on April 5, 2016August 25, 2016 by Matt
In the first two of these blogs I focused on Why and How our Data Fabric is an important and elegant strategy for businesses. In this one I want to focus more on 'What' the technologies are that under... Read More

Data Fabric Part 2 – Enabling the Hybrid Cloud

Posted on March 22, 2016May 12, 2016 by Matt
This is part 2 of my 3 part series on the NetApp Data Fabric, you can view part 1 here. The rapid evolution that we’re seeing across all industries today is placing greater demands on IT tha... Read More

Data Fabric Part 1 – The Evolution of Industries

Posted on March 16, 2016May 12, 2016 by Matt
Well it’s been a while since I posted a video on what I had originally intended to be a video blog, who’d have thought that I would enjoy writing posts, it was certainly not what I had int... Read More

The Butterfly Effect for All Flash Arrays

Posted on November 20, 2015May 13, 2016 by Matt
Noun;
 Butterfly Effect A chaotic effect created by something seemingly insignificant, the phenomenon whereby a small change in one part of a complex system can have a large effect somewhere else
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The new Hybrid; Flash to Disk to Cloud

Posted on October 16, 2015May 13, 2016 by Matt
Hybrid has evolved. When we consider Hybrid in terms of storage it’s very often in the context of mixing different media types inside the same array, which is okay for many traditional workloads but... Read More

When Purity is diluted by the Investment Innovation Challenge

Posted on August 21, 2015May 12, 2016 by Matt
I’m sure many of you have seen the recent debacle regarding Pure’s results as they progress toward their first IPO. Any time Gartner issues an apology for being wrong, it gets a lot of attention. ... Read More

Robots and Oculus Rift…what they have to do with NetApp

Posted on August 9, 2015May 12, 2016 by Matt
Just a few days ago I had the pleasure of being a guest at BT’s Showcase facility at their Adastral Park site in Ipswich. It’s an extremely impressive facility and you really get a sense while yo... Read More
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Book : The Third Wave

After 15 years working for NetApp I decided I wanted to write a book on my experiences during this time, it’s a bit of a ‘history of NetApp’ and the changing industry.

I hope you enjoy it!

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About Matt Watts – CTO WW Enterprise and Commercial at NetApp

Matt Watts - Director, Technology and Strategy EMEA at NetApp

I have been with NetApp for 15 years, but in the IT industry for much longer, in fact I have more than 25 years of IT experience. I work closely with the Office of the CTO, Product Operations and Marketing teams at NetApp, but I spend most of my time at events or with businesses articulating NetApp’s Strategy and the business value of IT.

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