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Dennis Hahn
Senior Analyst, Cloud and Data Center Storage, Omdia

Dennis covers data center storage technologies, including SAN, NAS, DAS, cloud storage, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeOF), and software-defined storage (SDS). He has more than 25 years of broad storage industry technology experience, which includes storage systems design, product and project management, corporate and product strategy, and storage innovations development and market insight.

Specializing in storage technologies, Dennis has created winning products, such as the MetaStore SAN, which grew to $60 million in annual revenue. He also holds patents in storage systems design, data caching, and hybrid cloud data migration. He is certified in Agile development practices and cloud solution architectures.

Orin Thomas
Cloud and Datacenter Expert

Orin Thomas has written more than 3 dozen books for Microsoft Press on topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He has authored Azure Architecture courses at Pluralsight, has authored multiple Microsoft Official Curriculum and EdX courses on a variety of IT Pro topics, speaks at conferences around the world, and is completing a Doctorate of Information Technology on cloud computing security and compliance at Charles Sturt University. You can follow him on twitter at twitter.com/orinthomas

Andy Fernandez
Sr. Manager of Product Marketing,
Zerto

Andy Fernandez is the Sr. Manager of Product Marketing at Zerto with years of experience in the backup, disaster recovery, and cloud space. With a focus on product marketing, messaging, technical evangelism, and product launches. After spending time in the start-up space and working in the enterprise, he ultimately strives to translate technical innovation to business value.

Robin Manke-Cassidy
Director, Product Marketing Network & Security, Citrix

Robin leads product marketing messaging for the Citrix Networking and security portfolios. She joined Citrix 8 years ago with experience in a variety of product management and marketing roles in the mobile and client space. Previously, she spent two decades in enterprise IT management in a variety of roles including access, security, datacenter server management, and networking. She holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Arizona State University.

Peter Elliman
Founder/Director and Systems Analyst,
Advanced Network Computing Laboratory

Peter Elliman is a director of product marketing at Druva, a cloud-based data protection and management company. In his current role, Peter helps Druva and its partners convey the value of the Druva Cloud platform for data center workloads.

Peter has experience launching new products, disrupting traditional markets, and helping marketing teams to drive revenue. Prior to Druva, Peter held roles at McAfee, Liquid Robotics (a Boeing company), Symantec/Veritas, and IBM. He holds two degrees from the University of Virginia, including a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and an MBA from its Darden Business School.

Louie Ferreira
Cloud-Native Market Expert,
Rubrik

Louie Ferreira has 7+ years of experience driving enterprise software solutions in Fortune 500 and Commercial businesses. In his past 3+ years at Rubrik he has worked with customers to build and acquire data resilience, cyber recovery and cloud data management solutions. Louie has a MBA in Finance and is adept at merging technology and finance to drive dynamic business outcomes for customers. In his current role he leads Global Go-To-Market for Rubrik’s Cloud Native Protection where he works with clients to recommend and implement solutions for protecting infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and SaaS-based applications.

Bill Gurling
Cloud Architect,
Rubrik

Bill has over a decade of professional experience designing, building, implementing, and managing cloud, mobility, and security products. Bill has worked in many industries including IT security, logistics, retail, financial analytics, DoD, technology consulting, and software development. Bill has held many roles including, end user support, systems and database administration, automation, managerial, product, and architect roles. Bill was a member of the Army National Guard where he managed an IT infrastructure team for a unit supporting thousands of soldiers. Bill’s current full time role is as a Principal Architect at Rubrik where he focuses on cloud native workloads.

Sue Troy
Sr. Director, Products and Solutions
ITPro Today

Sue Troy is senior content director for ITPro Today. She has spent more than 25 years writing and editing IT-focused content, with long stints at companies such as TechTarget and Ziff Davis Publishing.

Before joining Informa in May 2017, she was editorial director of TechTarget’s CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, where she was inspired by emerging technologies such as IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence.