Leader Photo Gallery
2018 Flash Storage and NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
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2018 Flash Storage & NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): (top): Samsung, Intel, Pure Storage; (bottom): Mellanox, Samsung
Intel
Contributions to Innovation: Ultra-Low Latency Storage for Edge Computing (2014-2018)
PCIe NVMe Card – SSD
Ultra-Low Latency SSD
Jonmichael Hands
Product Marketing Manager/Strategic Planning, Intel Data Center SSDs
Samsung
SSD
HeeChang Cho
Principal Engineer, SW Architect, Product Planning & Storage Standard
&
Cliff Sun
Head of NAND Memory Marketing, Americas, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Samsung
NAND Flash Chips
Pablo Temprano
Head of Memory Marketing, Americas, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
&
Mian Quddus
Senior Director, Technology Enabling and Industry Standards
2017 Flash Storage and NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
Click to hear what all of the award recipients had to say about their Innovation leadership OR click on each photo to view individual winner’s video.
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2017 Flash Storage & NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): Pure Storage, NetApp, Samsung, Western Digital, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung
Western Digital
PCIe NVMe Card – SSD
Anand Jayapalan
VP of Client and Enterprise Compute Solutions Marketing
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Samsung
SSD
Jaeheon Jeong
Exec. Vice President, Solution Product & Development, Samsung Electronics
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Samsung
NAND Flash Chips
KH Kyung
Vice President, Flash Product & Technology, Samsung Electronics
2016 Flash Storage/NVMe Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Flash Memory Summit
Click to hear what all of the award recipients had to say about their Innovation leadership OR click on each photo to view individual winner’s video.
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2016 Flash Storage/NVMe Innovation Leaders (L to R): Samsung, Mellanox, Micron, HPE, SanDisk, Intel, NetApp, NetApp, Samsung, Dell Storage, HPE
Intel
Most Innovative New Enterprise-Class NVM Product: 3D XPoint NVDIMM
Jim Pappas
Director of Technology Initiatives
SanDisk
Flash Cache Software
All Flash NVMe PCIe Cards
Anand Jayapalan
VP of SanDisk Client & Enterprise Compute Solutions Marketing, WD
NetApp
All Flash NAS Arrays
All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Arrays
Henri Richard
EVP of Worldwide Field and Customer Operations
2016 Open Server Innovation Leader Awards
presented at Open Server Summit
Click here to see what all of the award recipients had to say about their Innovation leadership OR click on each photo to view individual winner’s video.
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2016 Open Server Innovation Leaders (L to R) – Dell, IBM/Cleversafe, Super Micro Computer, Cisco, HPE, Citrix
HPE
Special Achievement: Contributions to Open Server Innovation (2012-2016)
Don Gentile
Director, Global Content Marketing, Enterprise Group
Cisco
Integrated System
Ethernet Top of Rack Switches
Marcus Phipps
Director, Data Center Solutions Marketing
Dell
Whitebox Servers
Open Networking Switch (Bare Metal Switch)
Ravi Pendekanti
Vice President, Server Product Management
&
Bud Koch
Director, Market Intellegence, Server Solutions Management