Ralph Lobato
About Ralph Lobato
Ralph Lobato serves as the Global Strategic Alliances Senior Manager at Hitachi Vantara, where he has worked since 2009. He specializes in managing strategic partnerships with major cloud providers and has extensive experience in virtualization technologies and enterprise storage solutions.
Work at Hitachi Vantara
Ralph Lobato has been employed at Hitachi Vantara since 2009, serving as the Global Strategic Alliances Senior Manager for 15 years in the Greater Seattle Area. In this role, he manages strategic partnerships with major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Prior to his current position, he held the title of Global Strategic Alliances Manager from 2009 to 2017, where he focused on developing and maintaining key alliances within the technology sector.
Education and Expertise
Ralph Lobato possesses expertise in managing strategic partnerships and has significant experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM. His skills extend to disaster recovery and interoperability solutions, making him knowledgeable in enterprise storage solutions, including IP, FC SAN, iSCSI, JBOD, Flash, and NVMe. He also has a comprehensive understanding of software-defined networking and storage.
Background
Before joining Hitachi Vantara, Ralph Lobato worked at Hewlett-Packard Company in various roles. He served as Microsoft Alliance Manager from 2005 to 2007 and as Interoperability Marketing Manager from 2001 to 2003. Additionally, he held the position of Microsoft Marketing Manager from 2003 to 2005. His diverse roles at Hewlett-Packard provided him with a strong foundation in strategic ecosystems, including global system integrators and hosters, as well as public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
Achievements
Throughout his career, Ralph Lobato has developed extensive knowledge in server administration across multiple platforms, including Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and Windows. His involvement in strategic partnerships and ecosystems has contributed to his ability to navigate complex technology landscapes and deliver effective solutions in the field of cloud computing and virtualization.