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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A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com

Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com. I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced...

The inaugural VMware vExpert Award

This was a surprise. This morning I received an email from John Troyer at VMware which began with... “Congratulations! On behalf of VMware, we would like to thank you for all the work you’ve...

A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware

Today’s post is one you don’t often find in the blogosphere, see today’s post is a collaborative effort initiated by Chad Sakac (EMC), which includes contributions from Andy Banta (VMware), Vaughn Stewart (NetApp), Eric...

Deduplication Guarantee from NetApp – Fact or Fiction?

I stumbled across these blog posts this morning. NetApp’s ‘Shining’ Moment – its Capacity Guarantee Program & NetApp’s ‘Shining’ Moment – its Capacity Guarantee Program follow up  These blogs attempt to discuss the details of the NetApp...

A New Era for Virtual Desktops

We are entering into an interesting time in the industry witnessed by the release of VMware View. View Manager, View Composer, Thin App, and Offline Desktop are well positioned to accelerate the adoption...

RTFM has Re-Launched

Mike Laverick's RTFM Education site has relaunched with a fresh new look and navigation provided by an expanded staff. For many of us Mike is a man among mice when it comes to VMware education...

Another ‘Must Read’ Blog

I was pleasantly surprised last week to learn that a long time friend, ex-NetApp associate, and now Senior Systems Engineer at VMware, Dave Lawrence has started blogging.  Dave has always been on top of...

VMware on NetApp Best Practices Update

As one might imagine Several of us within NetApp receive a fair amount of feedback around the content in our VMware on NetApp Best Practices Technical Report, TR-3428.  A few of the areas where...

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