Optimizing FlexPod architecture for your solution requirements

Dean Steadman is a product manager with more than 25 years of IT experience. He focuses on designing, deploying, protecting, and breaking hybrid cloud environments. Dean has accumulated hands-on knowledge at companies of all sizes, from cool internet start-ups to stuffy Fortune 500s. He enjoys gaming, hiking, and successful system upgrades.

Jyh-shing Chen is a Senior Technical Marketing engineer at NetApp. His current focus is on FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solution validation, enablement, deployment and management simplification, and solution integration with Cisco Intersight. Jyh-shing joined NetApp in 2006 and had worked on storage interoperability and integration projects with Solaris and VMware vSphere operating systems, and qualifications of ONTAP MetroCluster solutions and Cloud Volumes data services. Before joining NetApp, Jyh-shing’s engineering experiences include software and firmware development on cardiology health imaging system, mass spectrometer system, Fibre Channel virtual tape library, and the research and development of microfluidic devices. Jyh-shing earned his BS and MS degrees from National Taiwan University, MBA degree from Meredith College, and PhD degree from MIT.