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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Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap

Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where...

Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage

Today I wrapped up several weeks of travel which included the Charlotte VMUG conference, NetApp's Foresight engineering event, and a number of customer and technical partner meetings. During these travels a small number of...

Folders in iPhone IOS 4 – Everything Old is New Again

Yesterday I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to IOS 4 and I have to admit I really appreciate a number of the enhancements. I'd highlight the unified inbox, messages organized by thread, and folders as...

Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference

As I shared in a previous posts, the 2010 Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference was hosting a vExpert panel. This session was hosted by Rich Brambley of VMetc.com, Veeam & the Virtumania podcast (seriously rich...

VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp

Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I...

Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference – a mini VMworld?

All – please join Chad Sakac, Mike Laverick, Scott Lowe, Charles Gautreaux and I at the Charlotte VMware Users Group Annual Conference on June 11th. this event is shaping up to almost be a...

One Day Remaining to Vote on VMworld 2010 Sessions

Just a quick reminder that you can influence the sessions that you'll be able to attend at VMworld 2010 and voting closes tomorrow. As with previous events, this year's VMworld is gearing up to...

One Week with an iPad

A week ago today Apple released the 3G iPad and I was lucky enough to pickup the last 64GB 3G model not reserved for a pre-order at the Apple Store. A few questioned why...

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