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Explores how we look for more from the content we are creating on a day-to-day basis. As we transition from petabytes to exabytes to zettabytes, we look at the technologies, tools and real world examples to help you unleash the hidden potential in the content and information you use.
With the ever increasing volumes of data where it’s not uncommon to have terabytes at home and exabytes in the office, our experts share their perspective and insights from R&D, Test and Development to end use scenarios on how to get more out of the content that you create. Just as data grows, so do the number of companies, groups and individuals wrestling with the best ways to analyze, manage and transform.
Cameron Bahar, Chief Product Strategist, Scale Out Storage Platforms & Big Data Analytics
Cameron Bahar leads the technology direction and strategy on scale-out storage platforms, distributed file systems and Big Data analytics at Hitachi Data Systems, bringing over 20 years of systems software development and deep expertise in distributed operating systems, parallel databases and data center management.
Cameron joined HDS through the acquisition of ParaScale where he was the founder, CTO and VP of engineering. At ParaScale, he developed and released a private cloud storage and computing software platform for the enterprise to address Big Data workloads.
Earlier, Cameron led design, deployment, and operation of Scale8′s distributed Internet storage service that provided storage for digital content owners including MSN and Viacom/MTV. At the HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab, he developed system software for disk volume management, data security, and utility data center management. At Teradata, Cameron developed extensions to UNIX to allow the massive parallel processing required by the Teradata database, the world’s largest and fastest distributed RDBMS. Cameron started his career at Locus Computing, a pioneer in distributed operating systems, single-system image clustering, and distributed file systems.
Cameron holds a BS, summa cum laude, and an MS with honors, in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. Cameron holds 4 patents in scalable distributed storage systems, virtual file systems, and high availability systems.
Robert Primmer, Sr. Technologist & Sr. Director, Product Management, Content Services
Although no longer blogging for HDS, for reference from his previous blog contributions, see his bio below.
Bob Primmer is senior technologist and senior director of product management in the file content and services division at HDS where he is responsible for devising technology solutions that will be incorporated into future enterprise and cloud product/service offerings, with in-depth knowledge and expertise with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).
He has 25 years’ experience in technology, working in R&D and Product Management organizations with Cisco Systems, EMC, HDS and several start-ups. He is a member of ACM and IEEE and belongs to the IEEE Computer Society.
Shmuel Shottan, SVP, CTO BlueArc, Part of Hitachi Data Systems
As CTO of BlueArc technology, Shmuel is responsible for developing and advancing BlueArc product innovation. Previously Shmuel served as senior vice president of Product Development of BlueArc. He joined BlueArc in 2001.
Shmuel has over 30 years’ experience in the research and development of hardware and software, and in engineering management for firms ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to BlueArc, he was senior vice president of Engineering and chief strategy officer for Snap Appliance. Earlier, Shmuel held executive positions at Quantum Technology Ventures and Parallan Computer. Previously he held senior engineering positions at AST Computers and ICL North America.
Shmuel holds B.S. degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science.
Frank T. Wilkinson, Former Content Services Strategist, Office of Technology and Planning
Although no longer with HDS, for reference in regards to his blog contributions prior to departure see his bio below.
As the content strategist in the Office of Technology and Planning, Frank brings over 15 years’ experience in the field of IT and software development and expertise in HDDS and HNAS. He is an industry expert in the areas of knowledge and content management, information management within the financial services, healthcare, media & entertainment, retail and SLED.
He has held many IT certifications, including being a Master Architect. Prior to joining HDS, Frank was the Business Strategist for HP Software, Information Management Division and spent five years developing and deploying information management and content management solutions. Prior to HP, he enjoyed stints at the EMC TSG group’s information management practice and K-Vault Software (Symantec Enterprise Vault). Frank has been an active speaker for industry led panels and discussion on the topics of eDiscovery, information management, content management and next generation solutions facing the enterprise.
