Steven J. Schwartz has been working in the enterprise IT industry since the early to mid 90′s. He career began with founding a private software company called Gates 3, Inc. out of New York, NY, where he and the co-founders built several of the original distributed user and user-session persistent web application platforms.  He then moved on to a development position at Level 3 Communications, LLC porting RPC client applications to Java based web applications.  After a short period of time in development with Level 3, he moved on to Infrastructure Architecture where he tackled problems like implementing EMC BCV scripts for Oracle databases, follow the sun application distribution, and 0% downtime SAN based application backup. His primary architecture platforms were SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, HP HP-UX, Linux, and Windows on the operating system side, Oracle on Solaris for databases, and EMC Symetrix and StorageTek V2X and D-series storage for SAN storage, and finally STK-9310 tape libraries with 99xx and 98xx tape drives.

       Following in the wake of September 11th, 2001, Steven was brought over to Storage Technology Corporation to develop a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery service for STK’s Global Services organization. He quickly grew in his role at STK to drive service offerings for the Open Systems Disk Storage practice, and helped STK launch a Disk Migration service that helped migrate 2.5 PBs of storage in 2003 alone. Following in the footsteps of Dan Morton (SVP of Professional Services at STK), Steven left STK to begin a Sr. Solutions Architect role at now defunct Crosswalk, Inc. Crosswalk Inc. for those who may not be familiar with it, was founded by ex-founder of McData, Jack McDonnell. Crosswalk’s original goal was to simplify storage resource management, after failing to meet the market demands with the Crosswalk Storage Manager product, Crosswalk shifted direction to clustered file systems with a product called iGrid. Steven’s primary role at Crosswalk was System Engineering management and HQ Technical Sales leadership. While with Crosswalk, Steven jumped heavily into the High Performance Computing industry. Working on large Linux cluster application and parallel storage access. He has worked with deployments of Lustre, GPFS, PVFS2, iBrix, Terascale(now owned by Rackable) and Sistina GFS (now RedHat GFS).

       Steven left Crosswalk to pursue a Sr. Systems Engineer role at EqualLogic, Inc. (http://www.equallogic.com/) in April 2007. In January 2008, Dell, Inc. aquired Equallogic, Inc. In this, Steven has taken on the role of Sr. Storage Specialist for Dell’s Advanced Systems Group. This role is specific to supporting Dell’s Enterprise Storage Portfolio for the Corporate Accounts group, which is comprised of the top 7500 named Enterprise accounts in the United States.

       Steven guest writes for a few trade magazines, and can be seen on speaking panels at several trade shows. (Storage Networking World, Super Computing, Storage Decisions, and others). His specialties are SAN Storage, HPC Storage, Storage and Server Virtualization, emerging technologies, and general application availability. He can be reached via e-mail at steven@thesantechnologist.com