Steve McDowell

Chief Analyst & CEO @ NAND Research

About

As Chief Analyst and Founding Partner at NAND Research, I leverage my 25+ years of deep industry experience in engineering, strategic marketing, and strategy roles to help the industry's leading technology companies deliver the right products and solutions for the next-generation datacenter - while also helping smaller companies grow into leading tech providers. Industry analysts serve two roles: 1. We advise, helping both tech companies and enterprise IT organizations understand the competitive environment, deliver the right products, tell the right story, and make better decisions about future direction. 2. We help tell that story by publishing research papers and other targeted content, presenting at conferences, producing and participating in videos and webinars, and opening new channels of communication between enterprise IT and the tech companies that enable them -- all to drive external awareness in various areas for leading technology providers across a range of verticals and technologies. Our mission at NAND Research is to provide insightful, unbiased, and actionable analysis and recommendations that enable data center innovation and transformation.

Country

United States

City

Pittsboro

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Digital Transformation, IT Strategy, Enterprise IT Infrastructure, Strategic Marketing, Engineering Management, Cloud Computing, War Gaming, Competitive Analysis, Product Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Strategies, Public Speaking, Innovation Management, Relationship Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Enterprise Software, Product Development, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy

Experience

Chief Analyst & CEO

NAND Research

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

United States

Vice President & Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

2017-9 - 2023-1 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Helping tier-one data center technology & solution providers deliver the right products and effectively engage their customers: - Technology and product strategy advisory & recommendations - Competitive insights & analysis - Technology trends & analysis - Product & messaging strategy - Message amplification: podcasting, video, webinars, columns, research & white papers Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. Columnist at Forbes. Podcaster at DataCentric.

Chief Technical Officer/VP Engineering/CoFounder

BLOBfish Activity Hub

2016-11 - 2022-12 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Responsible for overseeing all aspects of product development and IT operations for a SaaS analytics solution targeted at the youth activities market. At Blobfish, I get my hands dirty playing with python, postgreSQL, elasticSearch, various AWS services, and much, much more, while managing all development and related support staff.

Various Engineering Leadership Roles

Nimble Storage, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise company in 2017

2013-12 - 2017-5 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Durham, NC

Led a dynamic and diverse software engineering team in the development of a clustered converged/hyper-converged appliance. The team was focused at various times on vCenter and ESX integration, SCSI, iSCSI, fibre channel, high availability, and scalability features.

Chief Technical Officer/Founder

Tagaboom

2012-1 - 2013-12 · 2 yrs

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Co-founder and product development lead at this early-stage start-up focused on media-rich collaboration applications.

Principal, Office of Strategy

AMD

2004-5 - 2012-1 · 7 yrs 9 mos

Austin, Texas

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, was responsible for: - New concept incubation & strategic OEM partner innovation for mobility and cloud solutions - Innovation process & ideation - Scenario Planning/War-gaming/Risk analysis - Strategic relationship manager for key cloud partners - CTO for AMD/Dell alliance team Technology focused on next generation client computing, mobility solutions, cloud, cloud-driven client, security, and virtualization technologies.

Engineering

Fujitsu Softek

2002-3 - 2004-3 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Sunnyvale, CA

Worked on the design and development of a Windows-based storage virtualization system, with particular focus on remote disk mirroring, replication, and disaster recovery.

Director of Engineering

Penguin Computing

2001-1 - 2001-12 · 1 yr

San Francisco, CA

Directed all engineering activities for linux server appliance company, including custom software and hardware development, ODM engineering relationships, and high-performance cluster computing.

Chief Architect

UNICOM Engineering

1998-5 - 2001-1 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Boston, MA

Reporting to CTO & VP of Engineering, responsible for evaluating next-generation technologies supporting M&A, partner activities, and next generation product definition in areas of server appliance, manageability, NAS, load-balancing and protocol acceleration. Built and led system software engineering team which delivered linux and Windows kernel-level components and firmware supporting datacenter clustering, out-of-band server management, and related technologies for storage- and application-focused storage appliances.