Hubbert is a Guest Blogger on SoothSawyer.  A little background on Hubbert:

Consultant and patent holder Hubbert Smith has held senior product and marketing roles Toshiba Memory America,  Samsung Semiconductor, NetApp, Western Digital and Intel.  He is a published author, past board member and workgroup chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and had a significant role in changing the storage industry with Datacenter SSDs and Enterprise SATA disk drives.