Craig Currently works for Pure Storage as a Global Solutions Director focusing on joint Alliance solutions including FlashStack with Cisco Systems Inc. Born in the UK, baked in Australia and fermented in Silicon Valley, Craig is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
Craig has over 30 years experience in the IT industry and has worked in the Customer, Integrator and Vendor spaces covering Sales, Marketing and Engineering.
Craig was born in the UK, moved to Australia in 2001 and more recently spent over 2 years in Silicon Valley focusing on engineering before returning to Australia at the beginning of 2020.
Craig specialises in Data Centre technologies across Compute, Networking and Storage Infrastructure with a focus on AI, Automation/Orchestration, Containerisation and Virtualisation.
Craig is focused on helping customers and partners rearchitect their data centre and hybrid cloud environments for AI, designing data-centric solutions that support the journey from data preparation and movement through to model development, deployment and enterprise inferencing. His work brings together compute, networking, high-performance storage, data services, Kubernetes and automation to create secure, scalable and operationally manageable AI solutions that turn AI strategies into business outcomes.
Craig is a strong advocate of technical communities and raising awareness both locally and globally. This has been demonstrated in his involvement with vBrownbag, vTrailmap and various podcasts including TechVillage, OpenTechCast, We the Sales Engineers, Virtually Speaking, DiscoPosse, TheGeekWhisperers, ThePureReport, TFD Rundown and vCatchup.
Craig was recognised globally with the inaugural 2011 VMUG Leader Awards – President’s Award.
Craig has been designated a vExpert annually since 2012 in recognition of his contribution to the VMware, virtualisation, and cloud computing communities.
Craig has been designated as a Cisco Champion annually since 2016 in recognition for his contribution to the Cisco Data Centre community.
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