Before PodTech, I worked at Hitachi Data Systems, one of the leaders in the Data Storage industry. One of my good friends and contacts is CTO, Hu Yoshida, who authentically uses his blog as the face of the company.

Hu invited me to swing by the HDS Headquarters in Santa Clara to be introduced to Jack Harker one of the innovators of the data storage industry, who pioneered many of the achievements at IBM. Claus, Eric Hibbard, and Jack’s son, John were also present. I’m always appreciative meeting some of the more experienced IT folks who share their wisdom crafting out their industry with the likes of a young inexperienced guy like me. Hu Yoshida has already blogged about the historic meeting, including vivid pictures.

This was an opportunity for me to learn tremendous knowledge from the first wave of the Information Industry, so I thought it was best to bring my camera, record it, and now share it with you, I pass the collective knowledge here to you, which is being stored on some spinning hard drive on some server.

I’m signaling to Anil, the Monkeys, Chuck at EMC, Dave Hitz, Toigo, Tony of IBM, if you want to share this video with your audience, you can press the ’share’ button and blog about it, sharing your ideas and experiences. Or share about the innovation that you’ve seen over the years in the data storage industry.

As a “web guy” I’m very interested in the online data storage space, as it crosses over to the ‘cloud’. Feel free to check out all my posts on Online Data Storage.

Thanks to the innovators of the data storage industry, that have helped to power my generation, the web generation.