Hugo Patterson, Chief Architect, Data Domain

Posted by Mary Jander on July 14, 2007

Tags: Infrastructure,  Other

Channel: Data Center, Other

Hugo Patterson has a tough job. As chief architect for newly public Data Domain Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP), he's partly responsible for keeping his company's momentum going.

It will not be easy. Data Domain's brand of data de-duplication helped put it on the storage map in a big enough way to fuel a $109 million IPO earlier this month. (See Data Domain Goes Public and Data Domain Closes IPO.) But the problem with going public is staying attractive to shareholders. (See Data Domain Dives In.) And that means choosing the right path to customer demand and choosing it again and again.

It's up to Patterson, a onetime NetApp lead architect who's into his sixth year at Data Domain, to help his company stay hot. That will prove increasingly challenging, as more vendors enter the data reduction and protection markets. (See Experts Share De-Dupe Insights, Quantum to Offer De-Dupe Duo, NetApp De-Dupes, Hifn CTO Outlines Strategy, and Analysis: Data De-Duping.)

We caught up with Patterson just after the company's Wall Street debut. We were cautioned about his SEC-mandated silence on things financial, but that didn't stop us from probing for other information.

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