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Ask the Expert: How to Optimize Your VNX
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Ask the Expert: Multicore Optimization (MCx) in the New VNX Ask the Expert: Block Deduplication and FAST Suite Tiering in the New VNX |
This Ask the Expert event will cover general guidance and tips/tricks to help you get the most out of your VNX.
The experts will discuss how to leverage key capabilities embedded within the product interface such as:
- The VNX health check
- Customer code upgrades
- The CRU process for drives.
This discussion begins on August 19 and concludes on August 30. Get ready by bookmarking this page or signing up to receive email notifications.
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Greg Swain has been an information technology specialist for the last 15 years, before joining EMC in 2004 he worked as a Boston based consultant focusing on backup, disaster recovery strategies and networking. After joining EMC Greg worked as a system’s administrator and integrator specializing in brining recently acquired organization into EMC own information technology infrastructure. The integration process typically required working with competitive technologies managing datacenter build outs and deploying EMC infrastructure including mid-tier storage and archive. Currently Greg is a Systems Engineering Manger based out of Franklin MA.
Christopher DiMartino is a Systems Engineer for EMC, focused on MidMarket GEO.
Chris’s position at EMC comes after 18+ years working in the IT field in southern New England. He now focuses on designing data center solutions that meet the client’s needs today as well as planning for future growth. Prior to joining EMC, Chris has worked at several Fortune 200 companies, insurance providers and the US Naval War College. With a primary focus on infrastructure security and compliance, Chris has had exposure to many varied environments, from companies with less than 10 employees all the way to redesigning the PCI scanning methodology of the current Fortune 1.
Nathaniel Fagundo is a Systems Engineer. He was originally hired into EMC as a Technical Support Engineer to support Their CLARiiON array. He then moved to VNX support when the new platform was released. After a few months I was moved up into the ELITE VNX support team to assist in supporting EMC's top 112 customers around the world. He is currently working at EMC as a Associate Systems Engineer or up to recently called an Associate Technical Consultant. Nathaniel focuses on direct and in-direct sales of new and emerging technologies comprised of both proprietary and partnered hardware, software, consulting, and cloud based solutions. He holds EMC Associate Certification in Information Storage Management, a VNX Specialist Certification for Platform Engineers, and a Data-center Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Specialist Certification.
Oliver Ames, an EMC Systems Engineer, came to EMC with over 7 years of IT experience having worked for Florida’s largest private insurance brokerage firm; PC repair, help-desk management, Systems Administration and Backup Administrator for over 20 branch offices and corporate headquarters.
Oliver uses his experience to educate customers on what best practices and approaches can be taken to ensure business can enjoy growth, while at the same time lowering costs to secure and maintain growing data sets.
Glen Kelley is an EMC Senior Hardware Support Engineer. He has spent the past 10 years working at EMC in Mid-Range array support (CLARiiON and VNX) as a Senior Hardware Support Engineer. Prior to EMC, Glen worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for 10 years and Data General for 17 years.
