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Stephen Foskett Delivers Keynote at DeltaWare Data Solutions Emerging Technology Summit

As part of our growing public speaking practice, Foskett Services is pleased to announce that Stephen Foskett will be delivering a technical presentation and the closing keynote at the DeltaWare Data Solutions Emerging Technology Summit on November 10, 2015. We are looking forward to a great audience of tech-savvy end-users at the Summit.

Stephen Foskett presents the keynote at the Chicago VMUG UserCon on September 23, 2015
Stephen Foskett presents the keynote at the Chicago VMUG UserCon on September 23, 2015

Stephen Foskett’s two presentations at the Emerging Technology Summit are as follows:

  • Keynote: Out of the Lab and Into the Datacenter – Which Technologies Are Ready? Enterprise IT has long been a conservative field, with many promising technologies and products skipped in favor of a safer-seeming choice. But technology development continues at a rapid pace, and many IT professionals are seeing the need to transform IT or be left in the dust! In this keynote, datacenter expert Stephen Foskett will share his views on technology adoption: How to judge which products and technologies will sink and which will soar, and which trends are worth betting a career on.
  • Breakout: The Four Horsemen of Storage System Performance Why do some data storage solutions perform better than others? What tradeoffs are made for economy and how do they affect the system as a whole? These questions can be puzzling, but there are core truths that are difficult to avoid. Mechanical disk drives can only move a certain amount of data. RAM caching can improve performance, but only until it runs out. I/O channels can be overwhelmed with data. And above all, a system must be smart to maximize the potential of these components. These are the four horsemen of storage system performance, and they cannot be denied.

The DeltaWare Data Solutions Emerging Technology Summit will be held in Edina, Minnesota on November 10, 2015. Attendance is free for qualified end users.

This keynote follows a very successful keynote at the Chicago VMware User Group UserCon in September. Foskett’s keynote at that event, “Gestalt IT – Why It’s Time to Stop Thinking In Terms of Silos”, was attended by over 500 IT professionals.

Photo by Eric Siebert

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Stephen Foskett Receives Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Awards

Stephen Foskett, founder and principal at Foskett Services, has been recognized by Microsoft and VMware for outstanding contributions to the technical community. The companies today notified him that he has received the MVP and vExpert awards for 2011. This is Foskett’s fourth consecutive Microsoft MVP award, as well as his second VMware vExpert award in a row.

The Microsoft MVP award is given to “exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.” Foskett received his award in the area of File System Storage, which includes various storage-related technologies in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. The Microsoft award recognizes those who “share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.”

The VMware vExpert program similarly recognizes “contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities.” Foskett previously received vExpert recognition in 2010. VMware uses this program “to communicate more closely, to share resources, and to offer other opportunities for greater interaction.”

Complete lists of VMware vExperts and Microsoft MVP award recipients are available online.

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Stephen Foskett to Present at Storage Decisions Chicago

Join Stephen Foskett at Storage Decisions in Chicago

Foskett Services Principal, Stephen Foskett, has been announced as a featured speaker at TechTarget’s Storage Decisions conference to be held in Chicago on June 21. Foskett will speak about data reduction for primary storage and storage virtualization at the general conference, and will present a special dinner session on managing data growth.

Stephen Foskett has been a featured speaker at TechTarget events since 2003, covering a wide variety of topics from enterprise storage to archiving and e–discovery. His sessions have received excellent reviews, and bring much real-world experience and humor to seemingly dry IT topics.

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Registration for Storage Decisions Chicago is free but limited to qualified end-users. TechTarget will pick a select group of attendees to attend the Monday evening dinner session on managing data growth. Learn more about Foskett’s sessions at Fosketts.net and visit the TechTarget Storage Decisions site for more information on the conference.

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Introducing “Raising the Floor”, Our Datacenter Podcast

Foskett Services is pleased to announce our new podcast!

The first episode has just been recorded, featuring Nasuni and Cirtas! We’ll be in iTunes shortly, or subscribe to our RSS feed!

Raising the Floor

Raising the Floor is a series of conversations with key industry figures focused on the future of enterprise IT. We envision a talk show format with moderation and guidance from Stephen Foskett.

The name comes from the raised floor that literally supports most data center environments and is intended to suggest progress in this space. We intend to raise the bar of conversation, probing serious topics rather than chatting about the industry.

Subscribe in iTunes (coming soon!) or via RSS

How It Works

Raising the Floor is short, focused, and topical. Each podcast will be 20 minutes or less in length, and Stephen Foskett will keep the discussion moving with pointed questions and analysis. We will focus on uses and strategy rather than product-oriented discussions, and will involve key industry insiders.

Raising the Floor relies on an interview format, with a few invited guests joining the discussion on a regular basis. We will record audio as well as video when possible, and may offer both formats in the future.

Join the Conversation

Please contact Stephen Foskett via email or Twitter if you would like to be involved in the podcast.

This podcast is sponsored by Nasuni, “the gateway to cloud storage”.