Rick Janowski is a product marketing manager with IBM Software-Defined Storage. He has worldwide responsibility for solutions, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage Server, that address the data management needs of customers running big data analytics and cognitive workloads. Rick has over 25 years of computer industry experience, both in startups and in a variety of positions with Hewlett-Packard, starting in HP’s corporate research laboratories in Bristol, England, and Palo Alto, California, where he researched knowledge representation and artificial intelligence technologies. Rick holds a First Class Honours B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, England.