Dan Pollack

Dan is recognized throughout the storage industry for his reputation as a thought leader in storage and high performance, reliable, cost efficient infrastructures. Dan has over 20 years’ experience managing, architecting and maintaining enterprise class web scale infrastructures utilizing cutting edge technologies. He is a multidisciplinary technology expert with a focus on storage systems at scale, a proven ability to identify, troubleshoot, and mitigate operational issues ensuring customer satisfaction and high availability. In 2001 he leveraged his vast experience and knowledge to author "Practical Storage Area Networking. " When Dan isn’t busy delving into new technologies, setting organizational direction or advising clients, he enjoys playing Ice Hockey, hiking locally and around the U.S. with the family, and providing engineering support on odd projects to friends and family.