Alex McDonald

Alex
McDonald
Director and Vice Chair
at
SNIA Europe
Alex McDonald

Alex McDonald has been active in the Storage Networking Industry Association since joining member company NetApp in 2005 after more than 30 years in a variety of roles in the software industry. With a background in software development, support, sales and a period as an independent consultant, Alex is now part of NetApp’s Office of the CTO that supports industry activities and promotes technology & standards based solutions, and is co-chair of the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative and Cloud Storage Initiative, and vice-chair of the Ethernet Storage Forum. 

Sessions:

SNIA and Persistent Memory
Wednesday 21st, 9:05 -
Learn what the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is doing to advance persistent memory (PM), including assessing and understanding use cases and performance metrics on new memory technologies, and its work on a new programming model to support the unique hardware and software capabilities of persistent memory.