David Hitz is an American engineer. In 1992, he, James Lau, and Michael Malcolm founded
NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and cloud operations (CloudOps) solutions to enterprise customers. The company is based in San Jose, California. It has ranked ...
, where he became an executive vice president.
A graduate of
Deep Springs College
Deep Springs College (known simply as Deep Springs or DS) is a private junior college in Deep Springs, California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26, the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher education in the U ...
, Hitz earned a
BSE from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
and went on to work as an engineer at
MIPS Computer Systems
MIPS Tech LLC, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc., is an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it. MIP ...
and as a senior engineer at
Auspex Systems
Auspex Systems was a computer data storage company founded in 1987 by Larry Boucher, who was previously CEO of Adaptec. It was headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Auspex introduced the first network-attached storage (NAS) devices. After an ...
.
He is co-recipient (with James Lau) of the 2007
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award.
In February 2019, Hitz announced his retirement as executive vice president of NetApp.
References
External links
Dave Hitz' blog
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Deep Springs College alumni
Princeton University alumni
Swarthmore College alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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