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This Life - Darren Sheppard
Where do you live and why? Worcester. It’s a hidden gem. People always think of the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire when they think of great countryside and not everyone realises Worcestershire has everything the Cotswolds can offer and more. It’s also very central with a great motorway network…
..although I have to say the train service could be better.
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worked at and how long for? Fujitsu Europe – 5 years
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Sony – 9 years Hitachi Europe – 2 years StorageTek – 3 years InTechnology – 2 years Overland Storage – 31
⁄2
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your career to date? Fuminao (Freddie) Monobe at Sony
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CPCE. His tireless patience and understanding with customers and technical solutions. A total professional; he made me rethink my complete sales approach which has paid dividends time and time again.
development has made the most difference to your job – and how? Storage virtualisation. It has given people the ability to manage their storage requirements more effectively. We’ve seen server virtualisation fully develop and storage virtualisation is now a key topic in many of our proposals. Complimentary to this we’re now seeing the rise of I/O virtualisation.
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Regularly updated Storage Networking news, white papers, case studies and industry initiatives can be found at the SNS Europe website:
www.snseurope.com SNS Europe is the only publication to be endorsed by
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What are your extravagances? A Guitars, guitars and more guitars - of
What storage technology
Which one person would you most like to meet (alive or dead), and what would you ask them? Winston Churchill and what was the best cigar he ever smoked?
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What are your current projects? Consolidation of our product portfolio into effective solutions with clear ROI and TCO metrics.
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Darren Sheppard is Manager of Vendor Solutions Division, Zycko.
Which storage companies have you
which I have 22 and counting!
Q What do you
think are your greatest strengths in the workplace? Cutting out
A the waffle and
getting straight to the point. Building strong, long standing relationships with colleagues, partners and customers.
Favourite sport? To watch the F1, particularly Monaco, and for me to do it’s water skiing.
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years Zycko – September 2009 to present
What is your life philosophy? Treat people how you would like to
be treated. Who has had the most influence on
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to a desert island? My Gibson J200, 12-string acoustic
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guitar. If allowed could I take some spare strings?
Favourite film? The Graduate. It also has a fantastic
soundtrack. What one possession would you take
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Favourite musical artist? Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys). The guy is a genius!
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What are you weaknesses? Vintage guitars
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