Alex McDonald

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Company Represented While Actively Involved with the SNIA:

NetApp (10 years), then independent (2 years)

Current Company:

NETSCOUT

Years with the SNIA:

12

Committees, Forums, Initiatives, Board Seats Held at the SNIA:

  • Director & Chair, SNIA Europe
  • Chair of SNIA CSTI (Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative)
  • Vice Chair of SNIA NSF (Networking Storage Forum)
  • Co-chair of the SNIA CMSI (Compute, Memory & Storage Initiative)
  • Advisory member of the SNIA Technical Council
  • 2013 SNIA Member Recognition Honoree; “Volunteer of the Year”
  • 2017 SNIA Member Recognition Honoree; “Exceptional Leadership”

Fondest Memories of the SNIA:

The inclusive SNIA community. Meeting face to face and spending time talking with some of the smartest & most interesting people it's been my pleasure to know, and many of whom I now consider friends.

Proudest Moments while Active with the SNIA:

Organising and hosting webcasts and tutorials to hundreds and sometimes thousands of interested storage users and technologists, given by the best experts in the industry. The feedback we get from our audiences shows we really are making a difference.

SNIA's Greatest Achievements:

Education. OK, standards as well, but mainly education. Thanks to SNIA, there are the finest education materials, available to everyone, on topics as diverse as protocols, performance, cloud, database, physical storage media and so on. SNIA has not only recorded the history and educated on the present of storage, but also informed and advised of the future.