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Thomas Costello
Director at Godaddy
Thomas Costello is the Manager of Storage Operations at GoDaddy, based in Bellevue, Washington.6 He is also on LinkedIn under the username "thomaspcostello," with 500+ connections.7
Costello was GoDaddy’s senior manager for Enterprise Storage.1 In that role, he was responsible for all storage-related tasks and was immediately given two objectives: to lower storage costs and to improve customer experience by more quickly restoring accidentally deleted data.1 He successfully implemented a Data Domain protection storage system to accomplish both goals within a year.1 By implementing Data Domain, GoDaddy now has 60% of its backup data on it, and Costello planned to increase that to 90% by the end of the following year.1 Since implementing the system, restore times have been reduced to three to four hours because it no longer requires human interaction.1
Thomas Costello is also the Director of Communications at GoDaddy International markets and the Venture Forward research initiative.345 He is also a Sr. Director of Software Development at GoDaddy.2
