CTR salutes those who made a difference in 2003: when the going got tough, the tough kept going.This issue of CTR See click-through rate. honors those who made a difference in 2003 by reducing costs, reinventing management, and bringing products to market that they know will pay dividends in 2004. These are our editors' choices. But we're also opening up the selection process to you, our readers, to vote your choices online. The results will appear in the January edition of CTR. We know, in the long run, it's your votes as subscribers to CTR that really count. Visit www.wwpi.com and Vote! EDITOR'S CHOICE: People and Organizations That Made a Difference in 2003. The storage industry in 2003 could be divided into those who merely waited for the economy to turn around or for killer apps to appear, and those who faced up to adversity and dealt with it by improving their management skills or bringing new products to the fore, thus preparing their organizations to take a leadership role as the economy brightens in 2004. We call these "People Who Made a Difference." Here are some of them. CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. LEADERS Patrick J. Martin, CEO Distinction: Guided his company to 14 consecutive profitable quarters during the worst technology dry spell in history. Revived respect for StorageTek in the industry using new business controls. Patrick J. Martin joined StorageTek in July 2000. Under Martin's leadership, StorageTek has grown its profitability despite a declining economy. Previously at Xerox for 23 years, Martin ran the North American Solutions Group, Xerox's largest marketing operation. He was responsible for marketing, product design, customer programs, sales and worldwide manufacturing operations. www.storagetek.com Joseph M. Tucci Joseph M. Tucci, more popularly known as Joe Tucci, is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and President and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the , CEO Distinction: Moved EMC Corporation to the realization that strategic partnerships and strategic acquisitions were not optional. No company can stand alone. Joseph M. Tucci joined EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. in January 2001. He has driven the company to broaden its technology and market leadership beyond high-end storage platforms to the most comprehensive automated networked storage solutions in the industry. Tucci also led EMC into open storage management software. In 2002, he oversaw the introduction of an expanded portfolio of multi-platform software. In 2003, he led EMC's acquisition of LEGATO Systems, Documentum, and Vmware. www.emc.com Stephen J. Luzco, CEO Distinction: Led his company to grow 2003 revenues in an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive industry that saw revenue decline and prices erode. Stephen J. Luczo Stephen J. Luczo (also known as Steve Luczo) is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Seagate Technology.[1] He has also served on the Boards of Directors of Gadzoox Microsystems, Inc. (renamed Gadzoox Networks, Inc. was named president in September 1997, and was elected chief executive officer in July 1998. Additionally, Luczo is chairman of Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software. Previously, Luczo was executive vice president of Corporate Development. Prior to joining Seagate in 1993, Luczo was senior managing director of Finance and co-head of Bear Stearns' Global Technology Group. www.seagate.com TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS Nexsan Technologies Distinction: Leading the charge for the newest tiered backup strategy in the marketplace: disk-to-disk-to-tape. Evangelist: Diamond Lauffin Diamond Lauffin, senior executive vice president for Nexsan Technologies, Inc., oversees sales and marketing activities. Before Nexsan, Lauffin ran worldwide sales and technical support of all customer-related operations of Qualstar Corporation. At Qualstar, Lauffin executed a new product introduction providing the vehicle to take the company from $7 million per year in revenues to a run rate of over $60 million. www.nexsan.com Cisco Systems Distinction: Pushing the envelope in SAN technology with the technology of Intelligent Switching Evangelist: Luca Cafiero Luca Cafiero is the senior vice president/general manager of the Switching, Voice and the Storage Technologies Group (STG stg abbr (= sterling) → ester ) at Cisco Systems and is responsible for Cisco's product strategy and implementation, along with go-to-market plans for the Storage Networking arena. Prior to Cisco, Cafiero was co-founder and vice president of engineering at Crescendo Communications, Inc. Cisco acquired Crescendo in September 1993. Crescendo developed the first LAN switch, now known as the Cisco Catalyst 1200. www.cisco.com XIOtech Corporation Distinction: Innovation in developing a clustered storage controller solution, allowing the build of virtual storage arrays across local, metro and wide area distances. Evangelist: Dave Aune Dave Aune leads all research and development activities within XIOtech. He brings over 25 years of experience in medium and large companies in the storage industry. Before joining XIOtech in August 2001, he held engineering management and executive positions with Seagate, Western Digital, Micropolis and IBM--where he lead technology and product development of RAID systems, video servers and disc drives. www.xiotech.com FalconStor Software Distinction: Even if they shy away from Verb 1. shy away from - avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task; "I shy away from this task" avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" identification as a virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. company, their code is aggressively sought for integration by many systems companies. Evangelist: ReiJane Huai ReiJane Huai joined FalconStor after a distinguished career in software development and management. Before founding FalconStor, he was a senior executive with Computer Associates. Huai joined CA in 1996 with its acquisition of Cheyenne Software, Inc., where he was president and chief executive officer. He was the chief architect of ARCserve, the industry's first storage management solution for the client/server environment. www.falconstor.com Microsoft Corporation Distinction: Development of a full-dress NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular operating system that permits NAS boxes to support advanced data protection operations such as snapshots, virtualization and multiple pathing. Evangelist: Zane Adam Zane Adam is director, Product Management and Marketing, of Microsoft storage solutions and products within the Enterprise Storage Division. Prior to this, Adam was the group product manager for server appliance marketing within Microsoft Embedded and Appliance Product Group (EAPG EAPG Early American Pattern Glass ). Adam, previously a product manager for Windows Server, focused on technical marketing. www.microsoft.com Sony Electronics, Inc. Distinction: Sony's S-AIT research and development team developed a tape cartridge that breaks the 1-TB barrier. Evangelist: Alan Sund Alan Sund has been with Sony for 15 years and has held several key positions in sales and marketing for storage products and graphic displays in both Europe and the U.S. He currently has overall marketing responsibility for Sony's branded tape storage technology families. Sund has been active in the tape industry since 1996 and has been instrumental in developing marketing and sales strategies for Sony's DDS (1) (Digital Data Storage) See DAT. (2) (Data Dictionary System) See QuickBuild and OpenDDS. (3) (Dataphone Digital S , AIT and SAIT See AIT. product offerings. While at Sony, he has been recognized with a number of prestigious President's awards, as well as the Samurai award for MNO Graphic Display sales. www.sony.com INDUSTRY RESOURCES Fred Moore, Strategist Distinction: Fred is that rare bird--part visionary, part numbers-cruncher, all strategist. Fred Moore is consistently ahead of the technology curve. In truth, Fred is the one who delineates the curve for the rest of us (abuse) for The Rest Of Us - (From the Macintosh slogan "The computer for the rest of us") 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced products. 2. to struggle up. He does this every year in his magisterial mag·is·te·ri·al adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a master or teacher; authoritative: a magisterial account of the history of the English language. b. treatise, currently called "Storage: New Game, New Rules." It has become the Secular Bible of the Storage Industry--and has saved many editors' bacon. In between climbing every mountain in sight, and running Horison Information Strategies, Fred finds time to write--for CTR--the best storage articles appearing anywhere. Thanks, Fred. www.horison.com Daniel Delshad, Entrepreneur Distinction: Created Storage World Conference in 2001, and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals in 2003. In an age of media behemoths, Daniel showed the power of one man, launching a highly successful conference (1000 attendees in 2003) and a national user group (850 members in three months) almost single-handedly. If being an entrepreneur means having the grit to create something no one else thought of, or thought could be done, and making it a success, then Daniel Delshad is an entrepreneur. www.asnp.org Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) Distinction: Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) ) SMI-S, which is the storage piece of the broader CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. standard, provides an interface for managing multivendor storage devices. No big deal at first glance--until you realize that the existing management process is awk-ward, expensive, labor-intensive and nearly unworkable. Whew whew interj. Used to express strong emotion, such as relief or amazement. whew interj an exclamation of relief, surprise, disbelief, or weariness ! SMI-S was tough enough to accomplish (we all know the infighting in·fight·ing n. 1. Contentious rivalry or disagreement among members of a group or organization: infighting on the President's staff. 2. Fighting or boxing at close range. in standards groups). But now the really hard part begins--getting the industry to realize that what's good for all is good for each. It has been done before--SCSI is a pretty good example. But it took decades. You have to wonder how patient IT departments will be, and for how long? We could have picked one person at SNIA to feature as representing the hard work involved. But we were scared. www.ipstorage.org |
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