Since 2018, NetApp AI has enabled our customers to integrate their data fabric across edge, core, and cloud. Our unified data management supports seamless, cost-effective data movement across the hybrid multicloud environment, and our world-class partner ecosystem provides full technical integrations with AI.
We have earned a variety of prestigious AI industry awards and accolades over the years. However, two recent accolades are exciting to highlight in detail, because they acknowledge the work we’ve done around AI and cloud and why it’s so important to our customers.
Mike McNamara is a senior product and solution marketing leader at NetApp with over 25 years of data management and cloud storage marketing experience. Before joining NetApp over ten years ago, Mike worked at Adaptec, Dell EMC, and HPE. Mike was a key team leader driving the launch of a first-party cloud storage offering and the industry’s first cloud-connected AI/ML solution (NetApp), unified scale-out and hybrid cloud storage system and software (NetApp), iSCSI and SAS storage system and software (Adaptec), and Fibre Channel storage system (EMC CLARiiON).
In addition to his past role as marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, he is a member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board, a member of the Ethernet Alliance, a regular contributor to industry journals, and a frequent event speaker. Mike also published a book through FriesenPress titled "Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management" and was listed as a top 50 B2B product marketer to watch by Kapos.