Jacob Farmer

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Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob’s no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many distinctions. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the leading storage industry conference. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale.

Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the SME (small to medium enterprise) marketplace for primary storage solutions. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community.

Most recently Jacob is leading a team to build a seminar/webinar series covering 15 of the hottest topics related to storage management. The series is scheduled to kick off in the summer of 2008.

Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.