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“.
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Leading Change in the Storage Industry

One of the things I love about my current role at NetApp (beyond the great culture, people, and technologies) is the amount of time I spend meeting with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and the...

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

One portion of my role at NetApp is to share with the community the capabilities and value of our storage technologies, especially the ones engineered and optimized for cloud deployments. Doing so inevitably leads...

Thoughts on 2011 – Technical Trends for Clouds

Recently, a number of us at NetApp were asked to share our thoughts around our expectations for 2011. The topics shared by thought leaders at NetApp from the likes of Val Bercovici to Jay...

Introducing Data Compression in ONTAP 8.0.1

It’s no secret; NetApp wants to sell you less storage than any other storage vendor and by forecasts from industry experts like IDC it is time we all begin enabling storage savings technologies throughout...

IDC says your data will grow and grow and grow…

Did you get a chance to read “The Digital Universe Decade - Are You Ready?” published by IDC (May 2010)? This report is a follow-up from the 2007 report titled, “The Expanding Digital Universe”....

Announcing FlexPod for VMware from Cisco & NetApp

Today we held our ‘Future Ready’ event, which was the largest product launch in the history of NetApp. This launch was so extensive it included updates to three quarters of our portfolio and introduced...

One Day Remaining to Vote for the Top VMware Virtualization Blogs

Only one day remains for avid blog readers to cast their votes for the top 25 VMware / virtualization based blogs. vSphere-Land (aka Eric Seibert) has been running this poll for the past few...

VMworld 2010: Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge Video

At long last, I was able to find a video copy of the panel session TA8623, the Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge. Thanks to Simon Seagrave for the recording and posting the video.This session was...

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