Arrow NetApp podcasts

Powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NetApp cloud-connected all-flash storage, NetApp ONTAP AI helps fully realize the promise of AI and deep learning (DL). To assist customers in jumpstarting their AI initiatives, NetApp and NVIDIA have partnered with Arrow to offer new, simplified, bundled solutions based on their reference architecture: ONTAP AI-integrated solutions. Listen to learn more!

Host bios:


Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan is an accomplished engineer with a combined 12 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow channel partner, he helps support growth in their NetApp storage, cloud solutions, and data management business. Ryan is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs, such as Arrow Quick Hits, as well as creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Ryan consistently continues to accelerate his knowledge of all things data center, most recently around NVIDIA solutions. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Russ Braden
Lead Solutions Architect, Arrow
Russ is a seasoned data center technologist with over 20 years’ experience, having worked for companies such as Dell, EMC (before merger), and American Power Conversion (by Schneider Electric). He has been part of the Arrow engineering team for 13 years, providing Arrow channel partners with technical enablement and support on technologies like NetApp’s data management, storage, and cloud solutions. More recently, he has supported NVIDIA solutions for AI, HPC analytics, as well as enterprise-level professional graphics, VR/AR, and VDI. Russ has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Hampton University and a master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland. His current research and learning focus is around all things NVIDIA and other data intelligence solutions from providers within the Arrow supplier line card.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp ONTAP AI - integrated solutions

Cloud volume ONTAP brings 25 years of developed intellectual property to efficiency manage data in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Learn how effortless the deployment and management of Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is both in the public cloud and on-prem, as well as how partners can make money selling NetApp products like CVO.

Host bio

Nadine Cummings
Presales Solutions Manager, Arrow
As a leader in the Arrow Engineering organization, Nadine's role as a Technical Solutions Manager involves building strategies and practices across the enterprise data center infrastructure. With over 10 years of experience, she continues advocating and delivering technical awareness and the vision of digital transformation to our partners.

How much can a partner really make selling NetApp cloud services?

In this podcast, we will recap the top alliance plays and partnerships with NetApp.

Host bio

Nadine Cummings
Presales Solutions Manager, Arrow
As a leader in the Arrow Engineering organization, Nadine's role as a Technical Solutions Manager involves building strategies and practices across the enterprise data center infrastructure. With over 10 years of experience, she continues advocating and delivering technical awareness and the vision of digital transformation to our partners.

Top Alliances With NetApp

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, you’ll hear an audio version of the latest Arrow Quick Hit with NetApp and witness the power of their Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (HCI) solutions.

Read the full Quick Hit on Arrow Channel Advisor: https://www.arrow.com/ecs/na/channeladvisor/channel-advisor-articles/arrow-quick-hits-witness-the-power-of-netapp-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure-hci/

Traditionally only available with a minimum of 2x compute nodes and 4x storage nodes, NetApp is pleased to offer the new 2+2 (2x compute nodes and 2x storage nodes) HCI configuration — opening the door to more customers, use cases and hybrid cloud possibilities.
This enterprise-scale, disaggregated HCI (dHCI) solution offers the guaranteed performance, cloud-like experience and automated management that your customers expect for their hybrid cloud journey.

The simplicity, flexibility and ability to reduce consumption costs empower organizations to move faster to achieve their hybrid cloud goals. With easy deployment, NetApp data fabric integration and a common experience across private and public clouds, NetApp HCI streamlines hybrid cloud infrastructure. Read the full Quick Hit to find out how you can break free from the constraints of traditional HCI solutions. 

SPEAKERS:
Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a technical solutions engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp HCI Update

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, Ryan Rascop and Walter Lemieux discuss Arrow's newest Quick Hit around NetApp's Global File Cache.

NetApp’s intelligent Global File Cache (formerly Talon Fast Storage) is a software-based solution that delivers fast and secure access to data for users by caching “active data” sets to distributed offices globally. This allows access to data anywhere, at any time, with consistency and guaranteed performance. In addition, Global File Cache is cloud platform-agnostic, operationally simple with transparent integration, and end-to-end security. It provides cost-savings, high-performance access for remote offices to access their SMB shares. Listen today!

SPEAKERS:
Ryan Rascop
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Ryan Rascop is an Arrow technical solutions engineer who has a combined 11 years at Arrow, focused on multiple storage suppliers. As a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner, he helps support growth in their supplier-specific storage business. He is passionate about creating technical and sales enablement programs such as Arrow’s Quick Hits, creating content with a focus on simplicity and ease of consumption. Rascop was selected as a President’s Club MVP pick for the NetApp line of business for 2019.

Walter Lemieux
Technical Solutions Engineer, Arrow
Walter Lemieux is a technical solutions engineer at Arrow. He is a NetApp-proficient engineer with more than five years of experience working with customers to attain a plethora of goals and achievements. Lemieux brings his hands-on experience to Arrow as a dedicated technical resource to a national Arrow partner. He has a zeal for creative solutions and collaboration, and has contributed to Arrow’s technical and sales enablement programs, including Arrow Quick Hits podcasts.

Arrow Quick Hits: NetApp Global File Cache

Welcome to Arrow Bandwidth, the podcast brought to you by Arrow to help the channel better understand the trends, technologies and concepts facing the IT industry today.