Stuart Miniman

Stuart Miniman is an active member of the networking (Ethernet and SAN), virtualization (vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013) and cloud communities. Stu is a proponent of linking information and people in IT by leveraging the latest tools and processes from the innovation and social media communities. In past positions including sales, product management and strategic planning, he has focused on the needs of customers by working with partners to deliver the solutions or information that the customers require. Stuart worked at EMC for 10 years; with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization technologies. He also worked with voice/video/data solutions at Lucent Technologies (now Avaya) and power solutions at American Power Conversion. He has spoken at many industry conferences and writes for his own blog. Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University.

Latest from Stuart Miniman

Guru Says Delivery of Value Changing – Michael Porter

Michael Porter kicked off the World Innovation Forum at the Nokia Theatre in NYC today.  He spoke on healthcare – a topic which affects everyone – you can a portion of this content in a video that was posted from Davos 2010.  There are also plenty of lessons around strategy that can be applied broadly. ...

Research for the World Innovation Forum 2010

I will be attending the World Innovation Forum in NYC on June 8-9th [disclosure: I have a free pass to the conference as a blogger; I am under no obligation to write anything].  I’ve done some background checks, researching the line-up of speakers, and wanted to share what I’ve found.  I like to understand a ...

Storagezilla: The Interview on Blogging, iPad and Bias

Here is an interview with Mark Twomey aka Storagezilla which I filmed at the Blogger’s Lounge at EMC World 2010 in Boston.  The clip is 5 minutes long. Mark discusses how he began blogging in 1999 thanks to some college connections (he was already an employee at EMC in Cork).  In 2006, Jeremiah Owyang (then working for Hitachi ...

EMC World Cubed: 30 minutes of video on Converged Networking

[excerpt from EMC World Cubed – Here’s all the Video] I’ve returned (but not recovered) from EMC World.  Did you watch the live video from SiliconANGLE? The over 5600 Tweets on #emcworld? Well, just in case you missed something, here are some videos and links. First of all, on the blogger front – Len “the mayor” ...

EMC is Your Sherpa on the Journey to Converged Networks

I’ve spoken often on this blog about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as a great option for Converged Network technology.  There have been a lot of discussions on the technical maturation of standards and products for FCoE, there has been less discussion of how the operational and organizational changes of deploying a converged network will ...

VPLEX: Redefining the Boundaries of the Data Center

In March, Pat Gelsinger introduced EMC’s vision for Virtual Storage (my blog post is here). Today, EMC announced the VPLEX family of products—the first new products that deliver on the vision.  VPLEX is a Distributed Federation solution, which means that we can enable a single copy of data to be shared, accessed and relocated over ...

Federation meets The Cube: LIVE broadcasting from EMC World

I’m really more of a Star Wars fanboy, but while the official theme is “Journey to the Private Cloud”, I’ve seen a couple of Star Trek references:  Federation (not the guys in the red shirts, but Storage Federation) has been a buzzword around the industry.   This year, if you’re not attending, you have a ...

The Power of Adjacent Communities

I recently read a book written by a coworker, Steve Todd, Innovate with Influence.  The book tells the story of Steve’s career, the storage industry from RAID to XAM and gives some good lessons about influence and innovation.  Steve talks about how he has created innovative products through connecting adjacent areas of expertise and knowledge ...

40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet Status and Outlook

{Editors Note:  I am pleased to have @Stu post some of his opinoins and observations here on SiliconAngle. Although Stu works for EMC these thoughts are his own cross posted from his personal blog. — Please give Stu a big welcome to SiliconAngle. – Cheers John @Furrier} I had the pleasure of attending the Ethernet ...