Joshua Beggs, Sr. Director Information Storage, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Joshua Begg's team is responsible for global storage engineering and operations as well as backup engineering at The McGraw-Hill Companies. The team's mission is to engineer and support information storage solutions globally for McGraw-Hill, utilizing a capacity-on-demand model where they've been able to drive down the cost of storage while increasing their service levels to internal customers by providing “just-in-time” storage, granular reporting by application, and consistent cost liquidation. Prior to his current position Mr. Beggs was a Client Solutions Manager for EMC, where he was responsible for a technical sales account team serving 29 accounts in the NY/NJ area, specifically in the telco, media, and entertainment vertical markets. The team was responsible for architecting technical information infrastructure solutions. He has also been a storage architect at America Online, where he was part of a team responsible for designing large storage solutions for extremely large, highly transactional databases and large data warehouses; and a principal research analyst at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he conducted satellite oceanography research for code 970, the oceans and ice branch. Mr. Beggs received a BS in Geology / Computer Science and an MS Marine Studies / Satellite Oceanography from the University of Delaware. He is a CISSP.