CTO, entrepreneur and inventor, Rick Braddy joins Mark to discuss the shift in data towards the edge, storage management, and how to plan for the future.

About Rick Braddy: Entrepreneur and inventor, with patents on web load-balancing, fault-tolerant systems & Internet management tools, with other patents pending. Served as CTO and VP Product Marketing and Product Management of CITRIX Systems; responsible for technology and business strategy, product management and architecture for XenDesktop desktop virtualization and XenApp application delivery software.

About the Host: Mark Thiele is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana. Mark has over 30 years of experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson. Mark is an industry spokesperson on trends of modernization and efficiency for data centers. He is also an expert in virtualization, cloud technologies, IT adoption strategies and advises several technology startups.