Paper Title: Compelling Messaging for the Economic Value of Higher Performance

Paper Abstract: Attendees will discover how to effectively message increased performance as it relates to time, revenues, and increased market share. They will learn to translate performance into the problems being solved and how it ultimately affects the user. Topics covered include throughput, latency, and IOPS and how they relate to real-world user problems. Performance in how it affects AI neural networks, Machine Learning, Deep Machine Learning, Databases of all kinds, data lakes, and more will be discussed. Technologies covered will include Flash SSDs, Flash Controllers, memory, CXL, NVMe, NVMe-oF, networking, speed-of-light barriers, storage, machine learning, deep machine learning, AI neural networks, HPC, and other non-volatile memory.

Paper Author: Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Author Bio: Marc Staimer, as President and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton OR since 1998, is well renowned for his in-depth and keen understanding of user problems, especially with storage, networking, applications, cloud services, data protection, and virtualization. Marc has published thousands of technology articles and tips from the user perspective for internationally renowned online trades including many of TechTarget’s Searchxxx.com websites, Wikibon, Network Computing, and GigaOM. Marc has additionally delivered hundreds of white papers, webinars, and seminars to many well-known industry giants such as: Brocade, Cisco, DELL, EMC, Emulex (Avago), HDS, HPE, LSI (Avago), Mellanox, NEC, NetApp, Oracle, QLogic, SanDisk, Toshiba, and Western Digital. He has additionally provided similar services to smaller, less well-known vendors/startups including: Asigra, BrainChip, Cloudtenna, Clustrix, Condusiv, DH2i, Diablo, FalconStor, Gridstore, ioFABRIC, Nexenta, Neuxpower, NetEx, NoviFlow, Pavilion Data, Permabit, Qumulo, SBDS, StorONE, Tegile, and many more. His speaking engagements are always well attended, often standing room only, because of the pragmatic, immediately useful information provided. Marc can be reached at marcstaimer@me.com, (503)-312-2167, in Beaverton OR, 97007.