As the head of the Office of the CTO, Val leads the evolution of SolidFire’s technology vision, serving as both evangelist and strategic counsel to NetApp executive, customer and partner leadership. Bercovici has served as NetApp’s Global Cloud CTO and Cloud Czar for the past six years, pioneering technical research and business strategies for the company’s cloud storage and data management portfolio. Over the course of nearly 20 years with NetApp, his teams have played an integral role in successfully evolving the company beyond a pure storage play and into the cloud era. Bercovici, a pioneer in the cloud space, introduced the first international Cloud Standard to the marketplace as CDMI (ISO INCITS 17826) in 2012 and has patents pending around the data center application of augmented reality.