
Director of Channel/OEM Development, Fusion-io
Member of the Retail Council
Ryan Bott is the Director of Global Channel/OEM Development at Fusion IO, a leader in solid state storage technology. Mr. Bott manages SSD demand for OEM Alliances like IBM, HP, and Dell. He is knowledgeable on MLC and SLC flash for WD, STEC, Micron, SanDisk, Seagate, IDTI, 3Par, Texas Memory, EMC, NetApp and Hitachi. He also oversees partnerships with CDW, Mainline, Zones and other top US resellers. Mr. Bott was previously a Global Lenovo Business Manager at LANDesk Software (Avocent) in charge of enterprise demand for systems, virtualization, lifecycle, security and inventory management. He consults often about software pricing, SaaS companies, BMC Bladelogic,, Symantec, Altiris, HP, Opsware and VMware in the optimization, data center and modernization markets. Mr. Bott is a certified Salesforce.com partner /reseller and a CRM expert with speaking engagements at several industry conferences. (This is me - Update Profile)
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