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

September 29, 2017 Matt Watts Innovating

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 I always used to have separates in my music system, so I could choose the best Amp, the best CD Player and the[…]

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Data Fabric Part 3 – Delivering the Benefits

April 5, 2016 Matt Watts Innovating

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 underpin it.

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

September 17, 2014 Matt Watts Innovating

It’s been a few weeks since part 1 of this post and I’ve had lots of interesting feedback. much of this was surprise that with all the focus on cost reduction, IT spending patterns have changed very little. Here are three strategies that I believe must be embraced for the future, in order to continue to reduce the cost of[…]

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Sedan, Minivan or Tesla? you choose!

February 6, 2014 Matt Watts Innovating

No video this time! I felt this one would be easier to write down, be warned it is a long one, you may want to get that cup of coffee first! Over the last 5 or so years I’ve worked at NetApp there’s been a constant theme to my presentations, they all focus on the value that ONTAP delivers upwards,[…]

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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 – Chief Evangelist

Matt Watts - Director, Technology and Strategy EMEA at NetApp

I’m an ambivert and an engineer, it’s taken a lot of different experiences in order for me to realise that this is the most appropriate description for who I am though.

I’ve always had a lot to say, I think being an engineer means I’m constantly looking for solutions to problems or analysing things to see how they could be done better, or sometimes just wondering why someone made a particular decision on how to build something.

Then I want to chat about it.

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.

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