Author: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn is a VP of Systems Engineering at VAST Data. He helps organizations capitalize on what’s possible from VAST’s Universal Storage in a multitude of environments including A.I. & deep learning, data analytics, animation & VFX, media & broadcast, health & life sciences, data protection, etc. He spent 23 years in various leadership roles at Pure Storage and NetApp, and has been awarded a U.S. patent. Vaughn strives to simplify the technically complex and advocates thinking outside the box. You can find his perspective online at vaughnstewart.com and in print; he’s coauthored multiple books including “Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing“.

SDS Discussion on the NetApp Communities Podcast

Late yesterday Nick & Gabe asked if we could continue the SDS discussion on the NetApp Communities Podcast and without prep or planning, I agreed to jump in! If you missed it, yesterday featured a ton of SDS conversations including a star-studed TweetChat featuring Duncan Epping of VMware, Brian Mitchell of Avnet, Jorge Pazos, the Chief Information Officer for […]

Tech Preview: Shift Cloud Platforms without Migrating Data

Here’s a brief preview of something we’ve been building that internally we are tentatively calling Project NetApp Shift. Shift allows customers to change the cloud platform their VMs run on without migrating any data. Shift provides unprecedented agility and the ability to create heterogeneous cloud solutions that previously were too costly to implement due to […]

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