James Long
James Long is a storage networking systems engineer who works for Cisco Systems, Inc., in the field sales
organization. James previously held the position of global storage networking solutions architect within the
Cisco IT Infrastructure Architecture team. During his tenure in the Cisco IT organization, James authored design
guides, technology evaluations, and strategic planning documents. Before joining Cisco in 1999, James contracted
with AT&T/TCI, Nextel International, and GTE following five years of employment in the open systems VAR
community. James has more than 16 years of IT experience spanning server administration, database administration,
software development, multiprotocol network design and administration, remote access solutions design and
administration, IP telephony and IP contact center design, content distribution design, storage network design, and
advanced technology evaluation.
