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Commodity, Business Value, New Opportunities – The IT spending conundrum (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on August 12, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
In many organisations most of the IT budget is spent where there is the least opportunity to create business value! Those of you that have heard me talk over the last 6 months or so will know that I h... Read More

Explosions, Data Centres and why people make decisions

Posted on July 25, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
I’m always intrigued as to when something becomes so important that people decide the time is right to do something about it. I almost decided not to post this video as it was from a trip severa... Read More

My team want a Data Center, all of their friends have one

Posted on July 17, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
There’s a CTO that I meet up with occasionally when I’m in London, we discuss all sorts of different aspects of IT, I think we both really get a lot of of our discussions, I know that I do. During... Read More

You’re buying Flash from who?

Posted on June 17, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
Flash from Who
News Flash: Flash fails! it also fails differently! I think it’s really important to have this in your mind as you consider your Flash strategy, I’ve spoken and blogged many times now abo... Read More

Doing one thing well is NOT enough!

Posted on June 11, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
I love trade shows! Now before you start thinking that’s an odd thing to say, let me explain why. I’ve been travelling a lot for the last couple of weeks which is why I haven’t spent... Read More

“Datacenter Dude” – Podcast : The Evolution of IT

Posted on June 9, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
On my recent travels I had the great pleasure to record a Podcast with Nick Howell and Pete Flecha AKA “Datacenter Dude”, it was a lot of fun as well as being what I hope you would find to... Read More

The demise of Tier 1, Throwing “Flash Grenades” at fortress VMAX

Posted on May 16, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
I hope the title of this blog post may have piqued your interest! I’ve spoken many times about how I predict the demise of Tier 1 storage due to the impact of All Flash Arrays, this is good for ... Read More

Over 5 Years and 70 Petabytes, we know a LOT about Flash!

Posted on April 14, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
Schopenhauer was right, truth really does pass through three phases: First it is ridiculed. Second it is fiercely and violently opposed. Third, it becomes self-evident. One of the many great things ab... Read More

Infrastructures are Evolving – Clustered Data ONTAP just makes sense!

Posted on April 8, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
There are many very significant features that we’ve built into Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT), these enable a fundamental change in the way companies build their storage infrastructures, but I̵... Read More

A bit of Sanity for VSAN

Posted on March 24, 2014May 12, 2016 by Matt
I had a meeting a month or so back with an IT Director for one of the large banks in London, he’s always been a big fan of NetApp technology but is also very pragmatic about looking at all options w... Read More
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About Matt Watts – Data Strategist & Director of Technology NetApp

Matt Watts - Director, Technology and Strategy EMEA at NetApp

I have been with NetApp for 14 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.

This is my personal blog and does not necessarily represent the views of my employer.

Recent Posts

  • With Data, what’s above it and below it really matters!
  • Changing demands and expectations – talking SMAC
  • The increasing irrelevance of the RFP
  • Are you Cloud first! or Cloud first?
  • The hidden data danger of the ‘Connected’ car

My tweets: @mtjwatts

My standing ovation at #NetAppSKO and #NetAppPEF if you were there you’ll get the joke, I said this would be the photo I’d post ;-) pic.twitter.com/VxCxFmCZfJ

About 15 hours ago from Matt Watts's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

I saw this so many years ago and it still brings a tear to my eye and a caution to my heart. The silent one says something so profound especially because of where we are right now m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMKpYx…

About 3 days ago from Matt Watts's Twitter via Twitter for iPad

Hehe this must have taken some effort “EMO Trump Tweets #3 (Failing New York Times) youtube.com/watch?v=ROVGAu…

About 4 days ago from Matt Watts's Twitter via TweetDeck

@Chris_Gabriel1 I would normally turn my headphones up a little louder at this point so that they get to hear…tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk for the rest of the journey

About 4 days ago from Matt Watts's Twitter via TweetDeck

@mcbride_ruairi @seanluce Or that sinking feeling when you realise you were actually on a telnet session to a different server altogether….

About 4 days ago from Matt Watts's Twitter via TweetDeck

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