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Daniel Chow
COO and CTO, Silicon Mechanics

As Chief Operating Officer/Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Chow works to improve operational efficiency and achieve company growth for Silicon Mechanics. Prior to joining the company in 2014, Dan was a Senior Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company where he led and supervised several IT infrastructure architecture and operation teams. With a diverse technology management background, culminating in over 14 years of senior leadership from various Fortune 500 companies, Dan is well recognized for his thought leadership on topics such as distributed data storage platforms, cloud, IT as a service, disaster recovery, and automation. He leads Silicon Mechanics groups in the development, delivery and post-implementation support for our Enterprise, Research, Education and Government customers. Dan holds a bachelor's degree in Business and Information Systems from University of Washington.

Latest from Daniel Chow

Parallel File Systems Have Evolved - And What That Means for Enterprise IT
The transition of HPC into the enterprise continues to face challenges, but not for reasons you might suspect. A legacy computing mindset, cost structures, and infrastructure issues have largely shouldered a majority of the blame for full adoption of HPC into the enterprise, but the reality is that the network itself is the bottleneck. In order for HPC to fully grow...