Ed Balduf is a Cloud Solutions Architect at SolidFIre, focusing on OpenStack and Agile Infrastructure. Ed has been working over 20+ years in technology, consulting and sales.  Ed is highly technical but has always chosen to work in roles involving interaction with customers and partners as he excels at solving new problems and knowledge sharing. Ed was most recently Sr. Staff Storage Architect with Fusion-io/SanDisk working with Hyperscale customers on scale out storage deployments. Ed lead Fusion-io’s technical efforts around OpenStack. Ed has extensive history and experience in Fibre Channel, Real-time processing, NAND Flash, Training development and packet routing.