Contributors and References

SCOTT DAVIS

Director of Data Intelligence

Scott Davis is the director of data intelligence at Stratascale. With nearly 40 years of experience with data and technology across industries, Scott is a transformation executive specializing in creating vision for technical enablement, team development, and breaking down silos. As director of Data Intelligence at Stratascale, he helps customers establish foundations to promote business agility and operationalize the business value of data.

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JOE GRANICK

Lead Research Analyst – Data Intelligence  

Joe is the lead data intelligence research analyst at Stratascale. He helps clients optimize decision making by leveraging statistics, mathematics, and machine learning through his background in data analytics, economics, and financial planning and analysis. 

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MICHELE HOPE

Lead Research Analyst

Michele is the lead research analyst for Hybrid Cloud at Stratascale. She covers emerging cloud trends and the best way to address key cloud challenges faced by today’s enterprise organizations. She has written about enterprise infrastructures for the past 25 years. 

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ROBERT ILLING

Head of Technical Advisory

Robert Illing is head of technical advisory - Innovation Labs at Stratascale where he works with customers to showcase the Art of the Possible. These conversations are fostered by Robert’s experience in engineering, architecture, and consulting roles he held on the Customers OEM and Solution Provider sides of the business. Robert has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. His background varies from Unix to Windows, storage to networking, and private cloud to multi-cloud. Most recently, he has been focused on the edge computing and IoT space.  Follow Robert on LinkedIn

DAVID OLSZEWSKI

Technical Advisor 

David is a technical advisor for hybrid cloud at Stratascale. He leads technical cloud strategy conversations and provides guidance from market analysis and assessments focused on business, technical, and use-case intelligence combining practical experience and insights.

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DEREK SHANK

Head of Research

Derek is head of research at Stratascale’s Innovation Labs. Throughout his career—from academia to personal finance to IT research—he has focused on uncovering insights and helping people put those insights to good use. 

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