History in the Camera's Eye
Versailles, Potsdam, and other grand relics of power are all imposing architecture and vistas, one always leading to another— Ossa pi...
Mike Davis
2018 Presidential Sites Summit Speaker
Courtesy of Mike Davis
Mike Davis is an 18-year veteran of the technology industry where he focused the development of new storage, data management, and content distribution technologies. Mike currently drives strategy, planning, and marketing for the Glacier storage service at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s archival storage solution with Exabytes of data under management. Prior to Amazon, Mike led Dell’s definition and launch of several new storage product categories, led Marketing for compression innovator Ocarina Networks, and helped form and launch multiple startups. Mike’s passion is solving data management problems of scale, from the storage technologies layer up through content workflows including new ways to extract rich context from digital assets.
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