July 13, 2015

Thought Leadership Spotlight Presented by NetApp: The Hybrid Cloud Journey: Cynthia Stoddard, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NetApp

"In order to embrace the cloud, one of the things that we really have to think about is not just the technology, because the technology is a piece, but we have to think about the tools, the techniques and then the mindset of the organization. I would say that those are really, really critical components to making the change into this hybrid IT model."

June 24, 2014

Speak Up! NetApp’s Cynthia Stoddard Discusses Innovation and Getting People to Share Their Ideas With IT

Cynthia Stoddard, Senior VP and CIO for NetApp, and Argyle’s Jay Williams discussed how to drive IT innovation and the importance of encouraging open dialogue.

April 11, 2014

Thought Leadership Spotlight Presented by NetApp: Innovation in IT (A Practitioner’s Perspective): Cynthia Stoddard, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NetApp

“We have to be quicker with our technology adoption. The cycles are a lot shorter than they’ve ever been in the past and we need to ready our organizations to be able to adapt and bring that value to the organization."

August 2, 2013

Leveraging Big Data as a Strategic Advantage: Brett Colbert, Vice President of Information Technology Strategy and Enterprise Architecture, NetApp

"Information as a strategic enabler, I think we’ve been talking about that for a long time. As our business processes, in some cases, become more and more commoditized, information is the go-to place to really differentiate."

September 22, 2009

Lessons Learned in Rebranding – Jay Kidd, CMO, NetApp

' But basically our whole message was oriented around selling to the technical buyer. We were coming in the back door and selling to the kitchen staff instead of really drawing a linkage between our products and the benefits to the business.'