The success of his tenure at Adaptec is still unclear. When HP announced his hiring last year, it said that Schultz had "successfully established [Adaptec] as a leader in iSCSI storage networking" after leading its acquisition of Platys Communications to obtain a foothold in TCP offload technology. But so far, iSCSI has been nothing but a miserable dream deferred for Adaptec, which has been forced to recalibrate its expectations as the IP SAN technology keeps getting pushed out (see Adaptec Sees iSCSI Delayed and Adaptec Axes Headcount, Again).
Before joining Adaptec in August 1999, Schultz spent eight years with Compaq in various roles, including VP of the server storage group in Compaq's Storage Products Division. While there, he helped form Compaq's strategy for the emerging SAN market with the launch of its first Fibre Channel storage arrays. Prior to that, Schultz spent 11 years at AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) in product planning positions. He has an MBA from DeVry's Keller Graduate School of Management and has a master's degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Schultz spoke recently with US Editor Todd Spangler about the mood of HP's storage group today, why melding with the server group is the right thing to do, its iSCSI strategy, and why he's suddenly so interested in email archiving. (He also manages to use the word "blended" no fewer than five times.)
To read the interview, click on the links below:
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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