Ben Golub

Ben Golub is CEO of Gluster, a provider of open source, scale-out storage. Prior to joining Gluster, Ben served as the president and CEO of Plaxo, a social networking infrastructure pioneer acquired by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, he held a number of executive roles at VeriSign including Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Enterprise Security, SSL and Payments divisions.

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EMC, Isilon, and the Rebirth of Storage

Yesterday’s storage industry news is certainly exciting. EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Isilon Systems. This comes on the heels of HP’s acquisition of 3Par. With these two acquisitions, three broad themes are clear: 1) Storage is “sexy” again. This is not surprising in an environment where unstructured data is growing by 60 ...