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This Life - Phil Jones
Editor
Philip Alsop
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2009
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Where do you live and why?
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Definitely
Editorial Board (SNIA EUROPE VOLUNTEERS) A Outside Bath. It’s the perfect the ability to
Frank Bunn, Aad Dekkers, Stefan Ehmann,
Michael Giesselbach, Bjarne Madsen, location to enjoy quality of life, listen.
Kay Mushens, Matthias Werner,
good schools and transport, theatre, Sometimes
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John Owen and restaurants. And of course the current
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my friends and the Bath RFC pace in our
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are here too. industry
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Which storage companies have you does not
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worked at and how long for? leave much
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Sharon Cowley
IBM for 16 years and HDS for 15. time for
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What is your life philosophy? this but I believe that if we all listened
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Enjoy it. a little harder it
Mitchell Gaynor
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Who has had the most influence would make a significant difference.
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on your career to date?
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Favourite sport and team/player?
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One of my university tutors: he
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Cricket and Barry Richards.
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once shared the secret of his
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What are your weaknesses?
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wisdom with me “Give more than
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I always say I want perfection,
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you take”. and yet I reluctantly accept less
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Who do you admire in your at times.
Directors professional life?
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Favourite film?
Bill Dunlop Uprichard
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Tim Berners-Lee and Gene Amdahl.
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The Last Waltz.
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Fibre Channel or iSCSI?
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Favourite musical artist?
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Open or heterogeneous storage –
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To make Shoden Data Systems one
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Wisden, The ascent of money by of the top players in the European
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