I’ve spent the last 20 years in diverse IT roles ranging from Programmer to Project Manager, Consulting Sales Specialist and, for the past 15 years, as a Presales Systems Engineer. Consistently acquiring new skills and maintaining focus on my customer's best interests have served me well in all my roles. More than 80% of the data that exists today has been created in that past 2 years. Stateless compute, high-bandwidth networks, and shared/accelerated storage provide the performance and flexible provisioning of pooled resources needed to cost effectively realize the full potential of data.