Biography
Gary Zasman
WW Practice Director, NetApp.

Gary Zasman is the Chair of the Long Term Archive and Compliance Initiative as well as functioning as a WW Practice Director for Network Appliance.

The mission of the LTACSI (Long Term Archive & Compliant Storage Initiative) is LTACSI is a cooperative effort of end users, IT professionals, vendors, integrators, and service providers with interest in the challenges related to long-term digital information retention, archiving, and compliance-related storage practices.

Gary Zasman is responsible for managing and developing the company's WW practice for business applications and databases.

Mr. Zasman brings 23 years of information technology solution experience to his position. Before joining Network Appliance Inc. in January 2006, Mr. Zasman developed ILM solutions and consulting practices at Accenture (Massachusetts) and StorageTek (Colorado). Prior to that he spent seven years at EMC Corporation, beginning as the manager of Professional Services in South Africa, then moving to the United States in where he became worldwide Director of Technology and Business Planning for networked storage solutions.

In 2001, a team that Mr. Zasman worked with over a six-year period was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian Award, for developing a digital archive and associated processes to house and manage hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data and associated metadata for historical preservation.

He began his career in South Africa in 1981 as a systems engineer for IBM before moving on to positions in engineering, consulting and management with industry leading technology and consulting companies.

He resides in Lafayette, Colorado with his wife, Noleen, and two daughters, Donna and Bryony.


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