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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Thoughts from day 1 of the VMware Partner Exchange

Yesterday the VMware Partner Exchange 2010 kicked off. For those of you unfamiliar with VMware Partner Exchange, or PEX, it is the annual virtualization event designed especially for VMware Partners focused on partner education...

NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices Book Update

At VMworld 2009 attendees were able to purchase the first book ever published by NetApp in the VMworld bookstore. This book was NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices. Since then the book has...

The Top 10 Storage Vendor Blogs

Continuing with catching up from the topics that I didn't get to post over the past week and a half...Last week Storage Monkeys announced the results of their Top Storage Vendor Blog poll. NetApp...

EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans

I want to tell you a story about how my evening went the other night. I hope you don't mind a narrative. Monday I received an email from a friend in the VMware community, "Did...

The Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs of 2010

Eric @ vSphere-land has tallied the votes and released the results of the top VMware and virtualization bloggers poll. This list is comprised of the who's who in virtualization, and I'm honored to be...

Creating a Restricted vCenter Role for SnapDrive

Historically NetApp has had a very different vision regarding the value storage array. One of the core values follows along the lines of: In order to be truly valuable, advanced storage features must be...

New VMware and NetApp Protocol Performance Report

Many of you have been asking when NetApp & VMware update TR-3697 (multiprotocol performance comparison paper covering VI3) to include vSphere. It is my pleasure to share that as of this morning we have...

2009 : A Blog in Review

I'm feverishly working to wrap up my edits on version 2.0 on TR-3749 - NetApp and VMware vSphere: Storage Best Practices, and unable to get to my blog queue (to those who I owe...

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