Member Introductions: Break the Ice!

1. What will make this community most useful to you?

Well, VPLEX is a new technology in the EMC world and for people to share their experiences of this product will be most useful.
 

1. What do you like best about your day job?

Looking at new and emerging technology and considering the application to our customers environments.

1. When you're not working, what are you most likely to be doing?

Spending time with my children and on the golf course!

1. What will make this community most useful to you?

As i am supporting Vplex for my customer, its just help me to get any latest updates
  

2. What  do you like best about your day job?

looking at the latest technologies..
  

3. When you're not working,  what are you most likely to be doing?

with family and friends... nothing else in the life..searching for something new...

1. What will make this community most useful to you?
   Sharing in the experiences of others using VPLEX, or developing it. Also being able to contribute to this community as a very proud and satisfied customer of VPLEX Metro. Implemented it in Novemeber last year. VS2 Hardware
2. What  do you like best about your day job?
   Imagining the future and then implementing it. 
3. When you're not working,  what are you most likely to be doing?

       Spending time with my family and watching Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit

1. What will make this community most useful to you?
   1. The uninhibited communication of  VPlex information with participants asking questions.... participating and engaging  with the members of the group.
      
2. What  do you like best about your day job?
   1. Being able to stay busy and having resources to find answers to the questions that arise day to day.
      
3. When you're not working,  what are you most likely to be doing?
   1. Car repair, gardening, movies, relaxing with my large family.  I work to live not vice versa.

1. What will make this community most useful to you?

          VPLEX is a product that represents the future of data storage of the private cloud. As an EMC employee i am happy to support and implement EMC VPLEX making the Virtual Storage a reality with its ability to federate information across multiple data centers. Enables new approaches for delivering IT as a flexible, efficient and reliable Service.

So i believe that participating in this community it will be a great pleasure for me to share my experiences and my knowledge with everyone.

2.     What  do you like best about your day job?

          Working for EMC makes me very happy since EMC is top notch at what is doing.

3.     When you're not working,  what are you most likely to be doing?

          I am trying to have W/L balance, relaxing with my friends, trying to enjoy my life.  As T-Bobk said I work to live not vice versa.

1. What will make this community most useful to you?

As a VPLEX Performance Engineer, I am very interested in hearing what the broader community feels about VPLEX as a whole, how they feel it performs, how it can do better, what technical questions folks have, and what we can do to make the product better in all aspects - perform faster, monitor better, and provision/manage easier.

2. What  do you like best about your day job?

I enjoy troubleshooting complex VPLEX performance problems, working on new monitoring and performance enhancement features for the product, developing tools to aid in my work, creating documentation that helps in all things performance related, interacting with all of the various groups within EMC, and most importantly of all, helping our customers succeed.

3. When you're not working,  what are you most likely to be doing?

Spending time with my growing family, watching and playing hockey - Go Oilers! - It's been tough though :-(, camping and biking in the summer, playing a variety of sports, tv/movies, reading, and following all things tech.

Gary

Twitter:  @GaryOikawa