Brian Babineau
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Located in Palo Alto, CA, Brian Babineau serves as the primary analyst for Continuous Data Protection and Intelligent Information Management solutions. The latter segment includes information analysis, classification, archiving, search, retrieval and indexing. In addition, his research activities continue to focus on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and electronic discovery and their impact on IT. With an accounting background, Brian also supports ESG’s financial services offerings to vendors and investors. Brian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Marketing from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Greg Buckles
Founder of Reason-eD and Experienced Litigation Support Specialist

Gregory Buckles is an independent consultant in corporate discovery technology and work flow solutions. Greg has been on the cutting edge of electronic discovery and compliance. After beginning his career in the public sector, Greg opened a small litigation support business specializing in on-line coding and data analysis in 1994. The business expanded to include consulting and professional services for medical billing, automated records systems and design of web-based applications. He managed Coastal Corporation’s in-house response to the FTC’s second request during the El Paso Corporation merger. The demonstrated efficiencies and return on investment led to the founding of El Paso’s Legal Technology group. He led this group through all of the government investigations, regulatory requests and civil litigation following the California Energy Crisis and the collapse of Enron in 2000.

Rich Castagna
Editor-in-Chief, Storage magazine

Rich Castagna is the Editor-in-Chief of Storage magazine. Before Storage, Rich was the Executive Editor for CNET’s Tech Update enterprise computing Web site. Prior to Tech Update, he was executive editor of CNET Enterprise, Editor-in-Chief of Windows Systems Magazine, senior editor for CMP's Windows Magazine and Technical Editor for PC Sources, a Ziff Davis publication.

Steve Duplessie
Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Steve Duplessie is the founder of and Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Recognized worldwide as the leading independent authority on enterprise storage, Steve has also consistently been ranked as one of the most influential IT analysts. Steve is one of the most sought-after speakers in the industry at trade shows, press meetings, conferences and industry events worldwide. Known for his “pull no punches” straight shooting style, Steve has been the keynote speaker at events throughout the United States, Europe and Asia – and has appeared on multiple international television programs.

Stephen Foskett
Director of Data Practice, Contoural

Stephen Foskett is Director of Contoural's Data Practice. This group provides strategic consulting to Fortune 500 companies which assist enterprise customers in aligning their storage and computing infrastructures with their business objectives. For more than 10 years Stephen has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics. Previous work includes managing and delivering consulting services at GlassHouse Technologies, StorageNetworks and Sprint Paranet. He has been a storage columnist and has authored numerous articles for industry publications and is a popular presenter at industry events.

Brian Garrett
Technical Director of ESG Lab, Enterprise Strategy Group

Brian Garrett is the Technical Director for ESG Lab providing independent hands-on validation and analysis of emerging technologies and products in the storage, data management and information security industries.  Prior to joining ESG, Brian was a founder and CTO of I/O Integrity, a storage startup. During his career, Mr. Garrett has created and managed world-class embedded development, performance measurement and test organizations at companies including EMC, SANgate and Formation.  Mr. Garrett holds a degree in pure Mathematics from Rutgers University and has been awarded nine patents.

Howard Goldstein
Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates Inc.

Howard Goldstein has over 30 years of experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others. Howard is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He helped to develop the SNIA Certification Program, as well as other SNIA Education initiatives.

Brian Greenberg
Data Protection Services Manager and Architect

Brian Greenberg is the Director of Data Protection Services at a major financial institution. He has been designing and managing data storage systems for more than 15 years and has designed and managed systems for environments ranging from small dot-com start-ups to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. He has consulted for the leading storage services companies and Fortune 100 companies throughout the world.

Randolph A. Kahn, Esq.
Founder, Kahn Consulting Inc.

Randolph A. Kahn, Esq. is an educator and author of dozens of published works including Privacy Nation, Information Nation Warrior, Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance and E-Mail Rules. Randy was the recipient of the Britt Literary Award in 2004 for an article entitled Records Management & Compliance: Making the Connection and in 2005 for an article entitled Stand and Deliver. He is an internationally recognized authority on the legal, compliance and policy issues of information technology and information, as well as a trusted advisor and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and court systems.

Ray Lucchesi
President, Silverton Consulting

Ray Lucchesi is President of Silverton Consulting, a strategy, storage and systems consultancy based in Colorado. He has worked in the data storage industry for over 25 years mostly in engineering/directing the development of new enterprise class disk and tape storage products at StorageTek and elsewhere. At Silverton Consulting, Ray helps storage vendors improve and better plan product development and marketing activities and has helped customers better understand and use storage technology.

Scott Matey
Managing Director for the New England and Central Regions, GlassHouse Technologies

Scott Matey is the GlassHouse Managing Director for the New England and Central Regions.  He has extensive experience in understanding organization's end-to-end IT delivery environment, developing solutions to align to business requirements and managing the implementation of those defined solutions.  Specifically, Scott specializes in business continuity and disaster recovery planning and complex infrastructure integration.  Prior to GlassHouse, Scott was the Business Resiliency Practice Leader for IBM Global Services in the northeast.  He has presented at industry conferences, CIO roundtables and industry groups on the topic of business resilience, IT supply chain management and IT business strategy.  In prior roles, Scott has also worked at EMC and Arthur Andersen.

Bill Peldzus
VP Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies

Bill Peldzus is Director of Storage Architecture at GlassHouse Technologies, where he is responsible for key client engagements. Prior to GlassHouse, Bill had more than 20 years' experience working in technical positions at Imation Corporation's Storage Professional Services and StorageTek's SAN Operations business group, as well as running multiple IT groups at CNA Insurance and Northern Trust Company. Bill often serves as a content expert in storage and disaster recovery and business continuity presentations, including speaking engagements at Storage Decisions for the past four years.

W. Curtis Preston
VP of Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies

W. Curtis Preston is Vice President of Data Protection Services at GlassHouse Technologies. Curtis authored Using SANs and NAS, Unix Backup and Recovery and The Storage Security Handbook. Curtis has been designing and implementing data protection systems for over 12 years, and now consults on data protection with end users from Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, as well as vendors around the world. Curtis is also a sought-after speaker for technical and CXO-level audiences. He can speak the languages of business and technology to any level audience, using humor to keep the presentation enjoyable. Curtis speaks at several storage, security and disaster recovery and business continuity oriented industry events including, TechTarget’s Backup School and Preventing Data Theft and Loss Seminars, Storage Decisions for the past four years and Information Security Decisions.

Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO

Greg Schulz is the Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group as well as author of the book Resilient Storage Networks – Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures. He brings over 25 years experience in UNIX, Windows, IBM Mainframe, OpenVMS and other environments from a clustering, server, applications, capacity planning, DR, networking and storage perspective. Greg brings a rare perspective and insight of having worked in various industries including transportation, energy and financial benefits in IT, as a vendor for storage and storage networking companies working with clients around the world, and as a storage industry analyst. He has written over a thousand articles, papers, tips, reports and other content in addition to his books, research and consulting projects. Greg is a frequent contributor to various TechTarget properties including Storage magazine, SearchStorage.com, SearchSMB.com and SearchStorageChannel.com.

Marc Staimer
CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Marc Staimer is President and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, OR. He is widely known as one of the leading storage market analysts in the network storage and storage management industries. His consulting practice of 10 years provides consulting to both the end-user (>300) and vendor (>80) communities. Most of his consulting is in the areas of strategic planning as well as product and market development. Marc's, 26 years of marketing, sales, and business experience in the storage, software and systems industries combined with his years of research into the MIS community give him unique business, systems and market expertise.

Arun Taneja
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group

Arun Taneja is the Founder, President and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group, an analyst and consulting group focused on storage and storage-centric server technologies. From late 2000 to early 2003, he was a Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group, an analyst group focused on storage technologies. Arun has 25 years of experience in the industry. Arun has held various executive-level positions in marketing and engineering with companies such as Sun Microsystems, IBM, Data General, Vixel and Andataco. He speaks often at trade shows, customer and industry events and writes on technology trends and implications for IT in medium to large enterprises. Arun holds a Bachelor's in Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and an MSEE and MBA from the University of New Hampshire.

Jon Toigo
CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International, and Chairman of the Data Management Institute

Jon William Toigo is a 20-year IT veteran who has worked both as an operative within corporate information systems departments and as a senior consultant with two international systems integrators. He is also a prolific writer with 15 books and thousands of articles in the technology trade press to his credit. His technology columns in seven popular print and on-line media garner a loyal readership of more than 500,000 per month worldwide. Jon's books include: The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management, Disaster Recovery Planning 3rd Edition: Preparing for the Unthinkable, The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management, and The Essential Guide to ASPs. Forthcoming titles include Making IT Matter (with co-author Randy Chalfant) and The Data Democracy (with co-author Margaret Romao Toigo). In addition to his work in print, Jon provides consulting and analysis services to a broad range of international clients.