Tuesday, November 10th
8:35-10:05
Session C-1: Advances in Enterprise Flash Storage (Enterprise Systems Track)
Paper Title: How Storage Professionals Should Respond to COVID-19 (Panel)

Paper Abstract:

Paper Author: Ken Steinhardt, Field CTO, Infinidat
Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Camberley Bates, Managing Director/Analyst, Evaluator Group

Author Bio:

Author 2 Bio: Marc Staimer is the founder, senior analyst and CDS at Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, Oregon. The consulting practice has focused on the areas of strategic planning, product development and market development. With more than 30 years of marketing, sales and business experience in infrastructure, storage, server, software and virtualization, Marc is considered one of the industry's leading experts.

Author 3 Bio: Camberley Bates is Managing Director/Analyst at Evaluator Group, a leading analyst firm covering IT infrastructure and services. She has dedicated Evaluator Group to delivering unbiased in-depth research on information management and data storage - and helping customers use that research to develop the infrastructure they need. She is responsible for corporate leadership and coverage of go-to-market and channel strategies. She has over 20 years of executive experience leading sales and marketing teams at VERITAS, GE-Access, EDS, and IBM. Her achievements include developing a new market category at Copan Systems, restructuring channel programs at Veritas, and growing a new division of GE Access from $14 million to $500 million in revenue through a solution-practice methodology. Camberley is a frequent panelist and chairperson at such events as Interop and Flash Memory Summit, as well as being frequently quoted in the trade and technical press. She holds a BS degree in International Business from California State University Long Beach and executive certificates from Wellesley and Wharton School of Business.