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Decades of no data loss - An Ivy League University NetApp story

Name: Decades of no data loss - An Ivy League University NetApp story
Uploaded: 2026-10-15
Description: See how an Ivy League university uses NetApp, ONTAP, Snap Protection Suite, VMware disaster recovery, DII, and AIQ/UM to protect data, automate operations, and support research at scale.

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See how an Ivy League university uses NetApp, ONTAP, Snap Protection Suite, VMware disaster recovery, DII, and AIQ/UM to protect data, automate operations, and support research at scale.

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Steve DeGroat

Associate Director, Enterprise Storage and Virtualization, Yale

Steve has worked in Enterprise Storage at Yale University for 15 years supporting central IT, faculty/staff, and research. Has recently taken over the Virtual Platforms to support the VMware and Cisco UCS infrastructure.

Dan Barber

Consulting Solutions Architect, NetApp

Dan is a Consulting Solutions Architect for NetApp with over 25 years of experience in virtualization, network, and storage technologies. In addition to running and managing his own data centers over the years, he also several years of experience with NetApp partners before coming to NetApp in 2016. Dan lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two children, and enjoys triathlons, cycling, camping, woodworking, and volunteering with his church.

Matt Baldwin

Matt Baldwin is the former Founder and CEO of StackPointCloud, now a NetApp company. As part of NetApp he serves as the Director of Cloud Native Engineering and is their Chief Kubernetes Architect, helping drive the company's multi-cloud Kubernetes vision. He is the creator of the NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS), the leading management and automation platform for public multicloud Kubernetes. Along with his work in Kubernetes and Istio, he also runs the largest Cloud Native community in the world spanning San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Berlin.

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