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021: Interview with Jim Sherhart, VP of Product Marketing for Drobo

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Recorded Live October 8, 2013

Topics:

- Jim's journey: after three years at Drobo, he left with founding CEO of Drobo, Geoff Barrall, to run marketing at Connected Data, creators of Transporter. Then a year later, Connected Data was acquired by Drobo which brought Jim back to the company.

- Transporter's improvements over the PogoPlug

- cloud storage vs. private/personal cloud services; the benefit of controlling the device

- Drobo Accelerator Bay enabling large, fast, cheap SSD cache for Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, or Drobo Mini, e.g. 64 GB mSATA drive