During his 15+ years career, Mark Chmarny consistently demonstrates willingness to cross technical chasms to investigate new ways of doing things. He is not afraid of technology innovation and has worked on multiple game-changing technology initiatives across variety of sectors.

Most recently, as a Cloud Architect at EMC, Mark has used his deep understanding of large system architecture challenges to develop numerous innovative solutions for Service Provider and Enterprise customers. While at EMC Mark has also co-authored several white papers and reference architecture documents on emerging technologies.

Currently, Mark’s primary focus is on data, its scalability and performance. As a Data Solution Evangelist at VMware, Mark often writes about Big, Fast and Flexible Data challenges. He is also actively engaged in defining new approaches to distributed data management for Cloud-scale applications.