John Lochausen is a technical solutions architect for World Wide Technology and is the primary SME for Dell storage (PowerStore, PowerMax, PowerFlex, PowerScale, and Unity) and NVMe storage fabrics. Starting in IT in 2005, he has focused on primary storage since 2006, including the host OS side of storage administration. John enjoys discussing new storage technologies with customers and helping them utilize their storage to solve their toughest data challenges. He brings a practical mindset to meet customers where they are and helps them build an environment within best practice guidelines. He spent ten years managing multi-site enterprise storage environments with significant experience with Unix, Linux, and Windows storage provisioning. John has extensive Fibre Channel experience with departmental and director-class switching and FCIP SAN extension. After being a storage admin, he worked for seven years in enterprise technical presales for a major storage OEM, the last four of which were in a specialty role focused on primary block storage.