Hammerspace Executive Advisory Board to help shape the future of how global data will drive innovation and economic growth
Hammerspace, the pioneer of the Global Data Environment, today announced the creation of its Executive Advisory Board, comprised of globally recognized leaders who will provide strategic guidance for the company’s mission of making data a global resource for innovation and development. The Hammerspace Executive Advisory Board members, renowned leaders from across the government, technology, finance and investment communities, include:
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“Hammerspace is bringing to market the global file system technology needed to unlock the full potential of an organization’s entire data set in edge, multi-datacenter and cloud environments.”
- Bob Flores
- Senior Partner with OODA consulting, Founder and CTO of Applicology Incorporated, Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Roxane Googin
- Chief Futurist of Group 11, over 20 years’ experience predicting macroeconomic technology trends as editor of The High Tech Observer
- Brendon Howe
- Technology thought leader, VP/General Manager of Blockchain at VMWare, and former NetApp executive managing cloud data services and emerging products
- Kai Li, Data Domain/EMC, Princeton University
- Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, prior Founder and Chief Scientist at Data Domain (now part of Dell EMC)
- Greg McGowan
- Senior Strategic Advisor at Franklin Templeton Investments, previous Executive Vice President, Director and General Counsel of Templeton International, Inc.
- Eric Scollard
- Global Sales Executive and Strategic Sales Advisor who has led high-performance sales organizations at Qumulo, ExtraHop, Bycast, Isilon Systems, IBM, and Veritas
- Eyal Waldman
- Chairman Waldo Holdings, Former President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies.
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Hammerspace recently introduced full availability of its Global Data Environment solution. The Executive Advisory Board members have been instrumental in providing insights into the end-user, business and economic challenges created by limited and inefficient access to file data that is currently isolated in disconnected silos.
“Enterprises, governments and researchers have been limited for decades by the challenge of using file data outside the edge location, data center, or cloud where it was created,” said Scollard. “This limitation has been holding back the speed of research, innovation, and growth of data-driven businesses, but the Hammerspace Global Data Environment is a true game-changer.”
“A key challenge in providing global access to data has been storage solution boundaries that have historically isolated data into silos,” said Howe. “While serverless computing and application virtualization have helped solve some of the data access challenges, the storage solution challenge to make an organization’s full data set accessible to the people, computers and applications that most need it has proven to be much more difficult to solve.”
“The amount of data generated in the world has been increasing exponentially for years. Despite increases in networking and compute power, the inability of data storage and file system technologies to make an organization’s entire dataset available to distributed environments has been holding back taking full advantage of advanced applications, network, and computing systems,” said Waldman. “Hammerspace is bringing to market the global file system technology needed to unlock the full potential of an organization’s entire data set in edge, multi-datacenter and cloud environments.”
