My passion, like many of you, has always been technology. It all started when my dad bought me my commodore VIC-20 when I was just 5 or 6 years old. I remember the using the external storage at the time, a Datasette. It was the first, of many, technological advances I’d see with magnetic tape and data storage in general. I guess I’ve come full circle now working in the world of Enterprise Storage and Backup for the past 15 years. We’ve seen a huge amount of change and advancement. From DASD to FICON to FAST the landscape is an ever involving one.

Passion. It’s what drives us to explore new things, rise to challenges, and advance and support our environments. That passion is what excites us to share knowledge and absorb knowledge shared by other. That passion is what makes part of being EMC Elect special. To be grouped together with so many engaging export who freely share what they know and help so many of us is truly an honor. The list is full of passionate and engaging people such as: Dynamox helping so many people on the community forums, Rob Peglar reaching out to customers, the ever helpful Dave Henry, the engaging Luigi Danakos, and so many other people.

Thank you all for this honor and special thank you for the help i’ve received from so many of you. Congratulations to the EMC Elect 2014!

You can head over to the EMC Official Announcement for the complete list,  but here are some thoughts from other fellow EMC Elect 2014

• Alex Almeida
• Cody Hosterman
• Dan Frith
• Ian Anderson
• Jonathan Frappier
• Karsten Bott
• Luigi Danakos
• Mark May
• Nick Fritsch
• Vipin V.K