Jacob Farmer

Jacob Farmer is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Computer, a position he has held since co-founding the company in 1991. Jacob has been a familiar face in the data storage industry for over 25 years. He has written for a number of trade publications and has been a featured speaker at many conferences and educational events, most notably USENIX, LOPSA, and SNIA.

In the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for authoring best practices on enterprise data protection and for helping numerous early-stage companies define their target use cases and establish their first customers. In academic circles, he is highly regarded for his work in defining best practices to manage the life cycle of scientific research data and for identifying novel solutions to reduce costs and streamline operations related to digital preservation. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.