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John Gentry

As the CTO & SVP of Business Development for Virtana, John is responsible for being the voice of the customer while understanding the key IT industry trends that affect product strategy and strategic alliances. With more than 20 years of IT industry experience, John has held a number of senior-level sales, sales engineering and marketing positions at industry leaders such as Qlogic, McData, CNT and Borland. He was a double major in Economics and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Challenging Cloud Migration Myths in the Wake of COVID-19

The COVID-19 push to cloud migration, unfortunately, is riddled with myths. Here are some worth busting With a substantial increase in the number of businesses now operating from their employees’ homes, and organization leaders realizing that their office buildings are now somewhat unnecessary until a vaccination against the coronavirus is widely distributed, the cloud has […]

Sep 8, 2020 · 3 min

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Blame Replaces Strategy: Enterprise IT War Rooms Causing Incalculable Losses

The concept of a “war room” is time-honored. One of the early examples is the Churchill War Rooms, an underground bunker that allowed Britain’s leaders to plot the allied route to victory during World War II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as plain-speaking and self-assured as ever, said, “This is the room from which I […]

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