About me

Rob Peglar is the Chief Technology Officer of Symbolic IO. Rob is a seasoned technology executive 40 years of data storage, network and compute-related experience, is a published author and is active on many industry boards, providing insight and guidance. He brings a vast knowledge of strategy and industry trends to Symbolic IO. Rob is also on the Board of Directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and an advisor for the Flash Memory Summit. His role at Symbolic IO will include working with the management team to help drive the future product portfolio, executive-level forecasting and customer/partner interaction from early-stage negotiations through implementation and deployment. He will also manage the team in driving sales and answering business needs for customers with the IRIS technology. Prior to joining Symbolic IO, Rob was the Vice President, Advanced Storage at Micron Technology, where he led next-generation technology and architecture enablement efforts of Micron's Storage Business Unit, driving storage solution development with strategic customers and partners. Previously he was the CTO, Americas for EMC where he led the entire CTO functions for the Americas. Prior to EMC, Rob was the Treasurer and Director for SNIA, as well as the Director and Treasurer for the High Performance Cluster File Systems Software Foundation. He has also held senior level positions at Xiotech Corporation, StorageTek and ETA Systems. Rob’s extensive experience in data management, analytics, high-performance computing, non-volatile memory, distributed cluster architectures, filesystems, I/O performance optimization, cloud storage and replication and archiving, networking, virtualization makes him a sought after industry expert and board member. He was named an EMC Elect in 2014, 2015 and 2016. He was one of 25 senior executives worldwide selected for the CRN ‘Storage Superstars’ Award in 2010. Rob received his B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.