Insight 2014 features over 200 speakers in Las Vegas and Berlin, providing numerous learning opportunities. Highlights include 14 popular speakers such as Benjamin Krieger, Charlotte Brooks, and Chris Gebhardt, each specializing in various aspects of NetApp technologies. The conference runs from October 27-30, 2014, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

1. Meet the Fourteen Most
Popular Speakers
Coming to Insight 2014
Insight 2014

2. This year NetApp Insight is bigger and better
than ever. We are bringing over 200 speakers to
Las Vegas and Berlin breakout sessions alone.
This doesn’t include sponsor or customer
speakers, and other expertise-building
experiences across the conference. With such
an array of thought leadership taking the floor,
you will have plenty of learning opportunities to
fill your schedule.
While all of our speakers are amazing, we want
to highlight fourteen of the most popular to
watch out for.
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3. Benjamin is a technical marketing engineer with a focus on SAN
and block protocols in Data ONTAP. Since setting up his first SAN-capable
clustered ONTAP storage controller in 2011 his mission
has been to broaden and deepen the SAN knowledge of
customers, partners, and coworkers, and increase the scope of
NetApp's SAN-focused solutions.
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Benjamin Krieger
NetApp
Sessions:
§ CR-2-2114 Scalable SAN Best Practices in the Next Major
Release of Clustered Data ONTAP
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4. Charlotte is a technical marketing engineer specializing in
MetroCluster and Clustered Data ONTAP. She has been at
NetApp for six plus years and her previous roles have focused on
scale-out computing, non-disruptive operations, and system
management. Her interests include developing realistic use cases,
driving best practices and demonstrating tangible benefits with
NetApp solutions.
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Charlotte Brooks
NetApp
Sessions:
§ DP-2-1780 Introduction to MetroCluster
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5. Jeffrey Steiner became a NetApp customer in 1995. Over the
following years, he worked for an Oracle OEM which was eventually
acquired by Oracle where he was responsible for the Oracle Retail
IT infrastructure. He joined NetApp in 2006 working in professional
services, eventually taking a role as the principal architect for
NetApp's enterprise application solutions.
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Jeffery Steiner
NetApp
Sessions:
§ DB-1-1127 Oracle Databases: Why Choose NetApp?
§ DB-2-1128 Flash That Database—Oracle Edition
§ DB-2-1129 Oracle on NetApp Worst Practices: Customer Edition
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6. Neto is a proud NetApp employee and Brazilian. Since 2000, he
has been working as systems engineer, consulting systems
engineer for Latin America and Caribbean and now as a technical
architect. During these 14 years, he has been working to assist
NetApp in achieving assigned revenue goals, to manage and
evolve a comprehensive technology collaboration and support, to
provide technical consultation and disseminating product
information for the field and NetApp and be an expert in a product
(NetApp) and the database market.
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Neto from Brazil
NetApp
Sessions:
§ DB-2-1141 Deep Dive Performance Analysis—Oracle AWR
§ DB-2-1600 Oracle Databases on Clustered Data ONTAP
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7. Peter has over 27 years experience as an instructor, SE, TME and
CSE – about half at NetApp. He is currently a solution architect on
the NetApp vTME team as well as the badged on-site alliance
engineer at VMware HQ. He designs best practices and how to's for
vSphere on NetApp. He has VCP3, 4 and 5 and NetApp NCIE. He
holds a patent for technology related to cloning of virtual machines.
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Peter Learmonth
NetApp
Sessions:
§ VI-2-2235 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 3a: Avoiding the Seven
Deadly Sins of VMware Storage Networking, Part 1
§ VI-2-2243 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 1: VMware on Clustered
Data ONTAP New Tricks and Best Practice Update v4
§ VI-3-2236 NetApp Best Practices for vSphere Part 3b: Avoiding the Seven
Deadly Sins of VMware Storage Networking, Part 2, Advanced
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8. Scott has over 20 years of experience in IT and has been with Red8
for over 13 years. Scott has extensive experience with GX and
cDOT via a variety of pre-sales engagements, architecture and
design, installs and migrations with Fortune 500 customers. He has
worked closely with NetApp on numerous training and education
initiatives related to both 7-Mode and cDOT including authoring
MultiStore labs and cDOT Transition, instructing at worldwide
NetApp Insight Conferences. He is also a member of the exam
authoring teams for 7-mode/ cDOT NCDA certification.
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Scott Gelb
Red8
Sessions:
§ CR-3-2111 Clustered Data ONTAP Transition, Approach, and
Solutions
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9. Glenn is a Reference Architect in the Infrastructure Cloud
Engineering team at NetApp, where he specializes in Cloud and
Automation. Since joining NetApp, Glenn has delivered a variety of
Microsoft based solutions ranging from general best practice
guidance to co-authoring the FlexPod DataCenter with Microsoft
Private Cloud Fast Track reference architecture.
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Glenn Sizemore
NetApp
Sessions:
§ II-3-1960 Architecting FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
(Hyper-V)
§ MS-2-1961 NetApp Solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V
9

10. Greg is a member of NetApp’s cloud solution group with a focus
on OpenStack Architecture and solutions using NetApp storage
systems. His primary focus is to work with members of the field to
identify, develop and provide solutions needed in the OpenStack
space using NetApp storage. Greg has been part of the NetApp
team for eight years.
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Greg Loughmiller
NetApp
Sessions:
§ CL-2-2061 OpenStack and Manila: The NetApp Differentiator for
File Share Services
10

11. Corey is the strategic technical alliance manager for NetApp
Australia and New Zealand, focusing on key NetApp alliance
partners such as Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix and SAP. Corey has
17 years of experience in the technology sector, specializing
in systems engineering and solutions architecture. In his
current role, Corey engages with key NetApp alliance
partners to provide in-depth technical details and specialist
knowledge on how NetApp solutions integrate with the
alliance partner solutions.
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Corey Adolphus
NetApp
Sessions:
§ MS-3-1922 How to Clone Just About Everything Microsoft
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12. Chris has been in the IT industry for 16 years and is a senior
technical marketing engineer leading NetApp and VMware end
user computing solutions in our virtualization business unit. Chris is
the author of the NetApp All-Flash FAS Solution for Nonpersistent
Desktops VMware Horizon View, NetApp and VMware View
Solutions Guide and NetApp and VMware VDI Best Practices. He’s
a VMware Certified Professional 3, 4, and 5 and was awarded
VMware vExpert 2010 through 2014.
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Chris Gebhardt
NetApp
Sessions:
§ VI-2-2024 VDI Design, Architecture, and Best Practices for Citrix
and VMware
§ VI-2-2142 Driving Down the Cost of Virtual Desktops with NetApp
All-Flash Arrays

13. Duncan has spent the last 14 years at NetApp working to build
solutions to solve customer problems in the areas of backup and
recovery, disaster recovery, object storage and storage security.
He joined NetApp in 1999 to work on NetApp's first, and industry
leading, replication product SnapMirror and since then has been
involved with many other industry firsts including: Unified primary/
secondary storage deduplication, near-line storage appliances as
well as integrations with leading data protection software vendors.
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Duncan Moore
NetApp
Sessions:
§ PL-1-1923 Introduction to NetApp StorageGRID (new release)
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14. Kevin Hill is a solutions architect working in NetApp’s Cloud
solutions group where to help define Cloud solutions and
strategies. Kevin has been with NetApp for 10 years.
“I can tell you I’ve never been this excited about what we have to
offer our customers, and how we can help them get the most out of
their Clouds.”
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Kevin Hill
NetApp
Sessions:
§ CL-1-2245 Managing Your Hybrid Cloud with Cloud Manager
§ CL-2-2246 Deep Dive on Clustered Data ONTAP in the Cloud
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15. Chris is a reference architect in the NetApp infrastructure and cloud
engineering team and is focused on creating, validating,
supporting, and evangelizing solutions based on NetApp products.
Before being employed in his current role, he worked with NetApp
product engineers designing and developing innovative ways to
perform Q&A for NetApp products, including enablement of a large
grid infrastructure using physical and virtualized compute
resources.
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Chris Reno
NetApp
Sessions:
§ II-2-1977 FlexPod Solutions with Cisco Application-Centric
Infrastructure (ACI)
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16. Sandra is a senior technical marketing engineer at NetApp,
specializing in transition to Clustered Data ONTAP. She has been
in the industry for over 20 years and at NetApp for five plus years.
She has written extensively on many aspects of the storage
industry, authoring technical reports, training materials and
presentations on NetApp and other vendor products.
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Sandra Moulton
NetApp
Sessions:
§ CR-1-1825 Where to Start If You Want to Transition to Clustered
Data ONTAP
§ CR-2-1826 How Does the 7-Mode Transition Tool Work?
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October 27-30, 2014
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