This document introduces 12 presenters at the NetApp Insight Americas conference in October 2013. It provides a short biography for each presenter, describing their role and experience at NetApp and focusing on the technology areas and topics they will present on.

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Presenters

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Charlotte Brooks
Charlotte Brooks is a Technical Marketing Engineer
for clustered Data ONTAP at NetApp. She has been
at NetApp for almost 6 years and has written and
presented extensively on various clustered Data
ONTAP and Storage Management topics. Her
current focus is on Nondisruptive Operations and
Nondisruptive Upgrades.
Insight Sessions:
¡ CR-2-429 Clustered Data ONTAP NDO Part 2: Cluster
Lifecycle Operations Deep Dive
¡ CR-2-704 Clustered Data ONTAP NDO Part 1:
Overview and Benefits Beyond the Obvious

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Jay White
Jay White is a Technical Marketing Engineer who
has a combined 11 years at NetApp. Throughout
this time he has authored many documents and
delivered countless presentations on many NetApp
technology areas including RAID, storage
subsystems, storage hardware, SnapMirror,
clustered Data ONTAP, transition/migration, Flash
Pool, storage systems performance, and more. Jay
is currently focused on clustered Data ONTAP
transition.
Insight Sessions:
¡ CR-2-702 Clustered Data ONTAP Transition, Part 1:
Methodology and Tools

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Jeffrey Steiner
Jeff bought his first NetApp in 1995 (ONTAP 3.0.3).
After spending 10 years as a satisfied customer, he
joined NetApp and spent 6 years with professional
services before moving into an engineering role. He
now spends his time helping improving the product
portfolio to better serve our database customers.
Insight Sessions:
¡ DB-1-147 Oracle Competitive Update - Exadata, ZFS,
and others
¡ DB-2-105Oracle on NetApp Worst Practices
¡ DB-2-642 Databases on Flash - Next Generation
Performance
¡ DB-2-644 Benefits of using Clustered Data ONTAP in
an Oracle environment

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Rachel Zhu
Rachel Zhu is a virtualization expert at NetApp. She
designs and implements end to end virtualization
solutions and drives integration between storage
and virtualization platform. She authors several
virtualization best practice and deployment technical
papers.
Insight Sessions:
¡ VI-2-268 Citrix ShareFile Data Mobility for Enterprise
¡ VI-3-265 Citrix XenDesktop 7 Architecture and Best
Pratice Update

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Neto from Brazil
Neto from Brazil is a Consulting Systems Engineer at
NetApp and a native brazilian (with a lot of honor). A
seasoned IT and NetApp technology expert, Neto works in
NetApp Customer Proof of Concept Labs in Research
Triangle Park, USA where he helps customers address IT
challenges with complex proof of concepts worldwide. For
over 13 years, Neto worked extensively with several
NetApp enterprise customers across industries worldwide.
Neto is focused on bringing his expertise in Oracle
databases, Performance and Clustered ONTAP to help
transform customer IT environments. Neto has a Master
Degree in Computer Science (UNICAMP) and he is an
Oracle ACE.
Insight Sessions:
¡ DB-2-643 Recommendations of How to Deploy
Databases on NetApp with Clustered Data ONTAP

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Corey Adolphus
Corey Adolphus is Consulting Systems Engineer for
NetApp Australia and New Zealand, focusing on
NetApp solutions in Microsoft environments. Corey
has 16 years experience in the technology sector,
specializing in systems engineering and solutions
architecture.
Insight Sessions:
¡ MS-2-153 Self Service and Efficient Cloning of
Everything Microsoft
¡ MS-3-634 Accelerate Dev/Test: A Real-World Case
Study of NetApp with Microsoft Private Cloud

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Greg Ferguson
Greg Ferguson is the Principal Architect for State & Local Government and
Education at NetApp. With over 15 years of technology industry experience
Greg is responsible for following key trends and technologies in the State &
Local Government and Education space. As part of this he works with
customers to leverage existing and emerging technologies to create solutions
to the new problems that these emerging trend often pose as well as solving
existing problems in new and more effective ways. Additionally, he uses
these customer engagements and trends to influence future product
directions.
Prior to NetApp Greg worked for Sun Microsystems as an Engagement
Architect covering Time Warner/AOL after spending time as a tier-3 field
escalation specialist also supporting AOL/Time Warner. Previously Greg
was the lead UNIX administrator of The George Washington University’s
academic UNIX systems where he was responsible for the servers, storage
and applications that supported the academic community. He has a BS in
Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Information Systems from The George
Washington University.
Insight Sessions:
¡ TR-1-470 Performance Analysis for Dummies
¡ TR-2-315 A Field Guide to Sizing - Part 1
¡ TR-3-317 A Field Guide to Sizing - Part 2

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Larry Touchette
Larry has been with NetApp for 12 years supporting,
implementing, and designing NetApp storage solutions. His
past works include large-scale data replication and disaster
recovery solutions, as well as development of best practices
for implementing vSphere with NetApp storage. He currently
focuses on research and development of solutions and best
practices enabling the use of flash technology to accelerate
shared storage systems and virtualized servers. Larry has
given technical presentations at several internal and external
NetApp training events in North America and Europe, and has
presented at VMworld on multiple occasions since 2008.
Insight Sessions:
¡ DB-1-707 Flash Portfolio for Databases
¡ VI-2-718 Flash Portfolio for Virtual Environments

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Jason Monger
Jason has worked in the IT industry for 18 years and at
NetApp for 7 years. He has worked with a wide range of
technologies but specializes in Microsoft solutions. His current
role at NetApp is as a Technical Solution Architect focused on
Microsoft technologies and covers the UK & Ireland territory.
This presales role is to enable NetApp System Engineers and
Partners, help customers solve business and technical
problems with the appropriate technology, and evangelize
NetApp solutions that integrate with and add value to
Microsoft products. An expert in FlexPod for Microsoft Private
Cloud, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint solutions.
Insight Sessions:
¡ MS-2-153 Self Service and Efficient Cloning of Everything
Microsoft
¡ MS-3-634 Accelerate Dev/Test: A Real-World Case Study
of NetApp with Microsoft Private Cloud

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Chris Madden
As a 10 year veteran at NetApp, Chris works as an Enterprise
Infrastructure Architect to help prospects, customers and
partners across EMEA quantify and improve the time to value
from NetApp solutions. His work spans strategy, operations,
and technology areas as relates to the storage and data
management layers of the IT stack.
Insight Sessions:
¡ DP-1-271 Data Protection: Challenges and the Need of a
Paradigm Change (EMEA only)
¡ CR-2-451 Where's my capacity? Introducing the Storage
Efficiency Pipeline (EMEA only)
¡ CR-2-275 Thick to thin: A real-world example of making
the transition (EMEA only)
¡ DC-1-276 VDI on FlexPod; a case study (EMEA only)

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October 7-10, 2013
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