Who are you and why should I care?

Posted on January 8, 2020January 10, 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

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

Are you Cloud first! or Cloud first?

Posted on September 19, 2018September 19, 2018 by Matt

It’s funny how something as simple as punctuation can fundamentally change an idea, an approach or a strategy. Looking back a few years ago then it definitely felt like most companies strategy w... Read More

Pets, Cattle, Insects and the Fabric of life

Posted on March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 by Matt

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, I have always associated the ‘Pets to Cattle’ analogy with the move from Physical to Virtual servers and the increasing number of these ... Read More

What is your Data Amplification Ratio (DAR)?

Posted on January 17, 2018August 3, 2018 by Matt

It’s time to think differently about how you measure the efficiency of your Data and the technology that underpins it! For many years we Storage Vendors have continuously challenged each other f... Read More

NetApp Insight 2017 – Farewell Berlin

Posted on November 16, 2017December 15, 2017 by Matt

Four years ago we began the first chapter of our story in Berlin, today we close the book and the Insight train rolls on to its next destination, and the first chapter for a new book in Barcelona. Net... Read More

The future is a fabric – look at Sonos for a clue

Posted on September 29, 2017September 30, 2017 by Matt

I like music, always have, but I’m no audiophile, I guess few people really are nowadays, but I do like listening to a wide variety of loud music and VERY loud films Buying the components Growing up... Read More

Don’t end up with a Museum of bad IT decisions aka ‘A Data Centre’

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by Matt

I’m fascinated by the pace of change in the technology industry, both in the hardware advances and also in the new applications that are arriving. Many new business applications are built using ... Read More

Your Supermarket knows more about you than your Doctor

Posted on December 21, 2016January 3, 2017 by Matt

How do we decide when sharing information benefits us, or whether it is an infringement of our personal privacy? This is a big problem, when it’s obvious that we benefit or that we see some tangible... Read More

Data Fabric; it’s enabled by End Points, Connections, Services and Applications

Posted on August 24, 2016August 25, 2016 by Matt

Phil Brotherton our VP for the Data Fabric Group introduced me to this way of discussing the layers that make up our Data Fabric Strategy, it really resonated with me so I’ve started to use it i... Read More

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