Chris is the Chief Executive Architect for Data and AI Storage Solutions at IBM. He has over 25 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in many industries. His experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies came from developed benchmark frameworks to test systems for reliability and performance. He also has led global sessions discussing how best to position unstructured software-defined storage solutions for File, Object and Tape in Cloud, On-Prem, Hybrid and now at the Edge.