Stephen Foskett

Stephen Foskett

Hudson, Ohio, United States
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Stephen Foskett is an active participant in the world of enterprise information…

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  • From Scale-Out to Big Data to the Cloud

    Silicon Angle

    Enterprise storage is hot right now, and file-based storage is even hotter. EMC just spent $2.25 billion to acquire Isilon Systems, and perennial NAS contender NetApp is on tear. Clearly, “big data“, as it’s called, is on the rise. But how big can data get with conventional systems?

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  • Is PCIe SSD right for you? Deploying PCI Express SSD devices

    SearchStorage

    What you’ll learn in this tip: With a PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state drive (SSD), the storage network can be eliminated entirely in certain situations. Learn about the considerations and challenges of PCIe SSD and if it’s right for your environment.

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  • Cloud storage gateway eases transition to cloud storage services

    SearchStorage.com

    What you’ll learn in this tip: Cloud storage gateways help ease the transition to cloud storage services and products. Gateways can make cloud storage appear to be a NAS filer, a block storage array, a backup target or even an extension of the application itself. Learn about some of the value-added features vendors are providing in their cloud gateway products.

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  • Understanding Storage Performance Metrics

    SearchStorage.com

    What you will learn in this tip: Learn how to accurately measure storage performance metrics in your storage system, and discover why your results may differ from vendor benchmark numbers.

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  • Erasure codes: The foundation of RAID 6 arrays

    SearchStorage.com

    RAID 6 is rapidly becoming a standard component of modern storage systems, with nearly every midrange or larger array adding this capability. We tell you why the erasure codes in RAID 6 arrays allow today’s high-capacity disk drives to be used without fear of data loss due to unrecoverable read errors (UREs).

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  • Small Businesses, Big Advances In Backup And Recovery

    InformationWeek

    Small businesses have an almost alarming array of business continuity and disaster recovery options, from on-site tape to sometimes pricey disk-based appliances to managed services to fully in-the-cloud offerings.

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Projects

  • The Watch Files Podcast

    - Present

    These are The Watch Files, where we tell the stories of the events that changed the horology industry. Featuring Serge Maillard of Europa Star and Stephen Foskett of Grail Watch.

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  • Wireless Field Day 4 - Delegate

    Selected as one of twelve independent thought leaders, in the wireless networking field, to attend vendor presentations and discussion sessions.

    As a delegate, my responsibilities were to be open-minded, and ask specific and pointed questions in order to foster meaningful discussion both during and after each vendor session. These discussions helped provide meaningful feedback to vendors and also to share experience and knowledge with the broader wireless community.

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Honors & Awards

  • EMC Elect

    EMC Corporation

    EMC Elect - 2014

  • vExpert

    VMware

    VMware vExpert - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

  • MVP, File System Storage

    Microsoft

    Microsoft MVP - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

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