Evan Powell

Evan Powell
Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four successful enterprise infrastructure software companies, Clarus Systems (RVBD), Nexenta Systems, StackStorm (BRCD), and now MayaData. As founding CEO of StackStorm, Evan helped to create the event-driven automation category. He helped to build a vibrant open source community leveraging and improving upon approaches used by the largest operators such as Facebook. As founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, he helped to re-imagine the storage industry as one in which the value of software and freedom from vendor lock-in would predominate. Under his leadership, Nexenta became the leader of the OpenStorage movement and the software-defined storage sector, with thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of dollars of annual partner sales. To relax away from work, Evan runs Spartan races and tries to keep up with his family’s adventures.
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Hello, I must be going…

Nearly four years ago, I got to know a team of experienced storage engineers with a lot of experience building what we now call Container Attached Storage....

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
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What's in store for Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) - MayaData

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
4 min read

Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators using OpenEBS Local Storage

Introduction

Local storage volumes remain the preferred choice when it comes to the control of managing cluster services and achieving higher performance

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
7 min read

MayaData launching ChaosNative for LitmusChaos and more

Today we announced the launch of ChaosNative as a separate company.

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
3 min read

Openness - open source - open pricing and MayaData

From where I sit, things have gotten a lot better in information technology recently.

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
5 min read

Kubera - cloud-native operations of Kubernetes as your data plane

Overview: Kubera

TL;DR - Kubera is SaaS that makes it easy to use Kubernetes itself as your data layer. It is free forever for individual use. Get started...

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
3 min read

Kubernetes storage performance myths

Intro:  You’ve been had!

If you want to skip ahead - to the stuff about how the future is here now - please do.  Skip down for my introduction of Mayastor.  

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
8 min read

Getting going with OpenEBS installation-whatever flavor-via few clicks

Intro: OpenEBS Installation

OEP, the free-forever OpenEBS Platform (yes, a rename may be in the works…), simplifies the deployment of OpenEBS.

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
4 min read

Lock-in DOES matter

Bringing the future forward

How crises can lead towards more open approaches

Black Swans, by definition, defy pattern recognition. The current Black Swan...

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
6 min read

APIs, Competition & Kubernetes

In the early 2000s, the internet was dominated by a central marketplace for all manner of things.

Evan Powell

Evan Powell

Evan Powell has been founding CEO of four...
3 min read
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