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“.

The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand

As expected last night’s ‘Storage Smackdown‘ webinar with Chad Sakac was fantastic. Topics of conversation spanned the spectrum to include thoughts on storage startups, points of integration, strengths of EMC & NetApp platfroms, and rumors around how Chad & I met. There was some serious amounts of information sharing, insight, and of course lots of laughs! […]

Happy Birthday FlexPod, You’re Off to a Great Start!

  It’s been one year since Cisco & NetApp launched FlexPod, a modular cloud platform designed to accelerate our customers’ evolution from traditional IT infrastructure silos to a shared, virtualized infrastructure. While ‘virtualized infrastructure stacks’ is the IT industry’s product offering du jour, there are three key areas where FlexPod truly differentiates itself from the […]

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