Barclay Blair
Information Governance Practice Director, Forensics Consulting Solutions

Barclay Blair joined Forensics Consulting Solutions to help the company execute on its mission to help clients manage their information better. As Director of the Information Governance practice at FCS, which is known as FCS IG, Barclay and his team help clients meet legal requirements while maximizing the business value of their information assets. FCS IG provides a range of Records and Information Management (RIM), compliance, assessment, implementation, training and other professional services. Barclay has served as a Consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors, and government institutions. Barclay is the award-winning author of the books: Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance; Information Nation Warrior; and Privacy Nation.

Jeff Byrne
Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group

Jeff is Senior Analyst and Consultant at Taneja Group. Jeff’s primary focus is on companies, trends and technologies in the server virtualization market. Prior to joining Taneja Group, Jeff spent five years as Vice President of Marketing and later Vice President of Corporate Strategy at VMware, a leading provider of virtual infrastructure software. Jeff has more than 20 years of marketing and operational experience at companies such as Hewlett-Packard, MIPS and Novell.

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.

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.

Barb Goldworm
Founder, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS

Barb Goldworm has spent over 30 years in systems, software, and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and several successful startup ventures. A frequent keynote speaker at industry events, Barb has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at StorageNetworkingWorld (SNW), TechTarget Data Center Decisions and numerous other events. She also chairs Interop’s Virtualization and Virtualization Management tracks, created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track, and is virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, as well as being a frequent judge for various Product of the Year and Best of Show awards. Barb also has been a regular featured expert speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and Business Trends Quarterly webcast, podcast and live events, as well as hundreds of channel partner events throughout North America.

Brian J. Greenberg
Founder and President, General System Dynamics

Brian Greenberg is the founder and President of General System Dynamics, a company that helps its clients manage their information and information systems better.  Brian has been designing and managing information & data storage systems for over 15 years and done so for environments ranging from small dot-com start-ups to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 50 companies internationally and in nearly every industry.  Brian has worked in-house and consulted for the leading storage services companies and is a regular presenter at industry conferences. Brian is the author of "Design Life", a model for design; "A Cost Analysis of Media Consumption using System Dynamics Modeling in a Backup Environment"; and several more papers on the impacts of various technologies on business.

Jeff Harbert
Principal Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies

Jeff Harbert is an Engagement Partner at GlassHouse Technologies. Specializing in Data Protection Strategies, Jeff is responsible for developing solutions to maximize customers’ data recoverability and properly positioning new technologies as they are deployed. Prior to this, he was a consultant for GlassHouse focused on backup services. He brings more than 10 years of backup and storage experience, gained in technical positions at EMC and StorageNetworks. Jeff has spoken at various conferences, including Storage Decisions and Comdex and has been published in Storage magazine.

Dennis Martin
Founder and President, Demartek

Dennis Martin is the founder and President of Demartek, a computer industry analyst organization with its own test lab. Dennis has been working in the Information Technology industry for more than twenty-eight years, primarily involved in software development and project management in mainframe, UNIX, and Windows environments. These include a variety of large and small end-user customers, and engineering and marketing positions for storage vendors such as StorageTek.

Bill Mottram
Founder and Managing Partner, Veridictus Associates Inc.

Bill Mottram is the founder and managing partner of Veridictus Associates Incorporated. Bill has been involved with marketing and selling business applications and technology, specifically, data storage solutions for over 25 years with both Fortune 500 and with entrepreneurial ventures. While not a technologist, Bill's background and education enables him to understand technology and translate its complexities into solutions that can be applied to solve real world problems. Bill's experience and expertise includes technology management, corporate acquisition and public company funding.

Bill Peldzus
Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies

Bill Peldzus is Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery at GlassHouse Technologies. He is responsible for the strategy and development of DC, BC & DR services, supporting sales and overseeing customer engagements. Bill brings 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 data center, disaster recovery and business continuity presentations.

Mark Peters
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Mark is an analyst at ESG, focused on storage systems, as well as on the (re)emerging challenges of power, cooling and space efficiencies throughout data centers. Mark has over 20 years of experience in IT. Prior to his current role as an ESG analyst, Mark ran his own business consulting on corporate communications, but still focused on the storage and IT worlds. British by birth, and with a Masters degree from Oxford University, he has been based in Colorado since 1997.

W. Curtis Preston
Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert, TechTarget

W. Curtis Preston (a.k.a. "Mr. Backup") has been singularly focused on data backup and recovery for more than 15 years. From starting as a backup admin at a $35 billion-dollar credit card company to being one of the most sought-after consultants, writers and speakers in this space, it's hard to find someone more focused on recovering lost data. He is the webmaster of BackupCentral.com, the author of hundreds of articles, and the books "Backup and Recovery" and "Using SANs and NAS."

Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO

As founder of the independent IT industry analyst and consultancy firm StorageIO (www.storageioblog.com), Mr. Schulz has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and capacity planner for various IT organizations from an applications, systems, server, and storage networking perspective. He has worked for several vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. In addition to his analyst consulting and research duties, Greg is one of the most sought-after consulting analysts, writers and speakers on a global basis in the space of Green IT, server and storage virtualization, IT optimization and efficiency having latterly written the book on the topic “The Green and Virtual Data Center” (CRC). He is also the author of “Resilient Storage Networks – Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures” (Elsevier) as well as having written over a thousand articles, reports, tips and columns in addition to numerous webcasts, podcasts and videos.

Ron Scruggs
Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies

Ron Scruggs has over 17 years of experience in senior level engineering and consulting roles and has been an integral part of enterprise level storage and infrastructure decisions over the past 10 years.  Ron’s systems and storage experience spans multiple industries including government, financial, medical and IT service providers.  He has worked with many different software and hardware technologies to implement top to bottom IT infrastructure solutions as well as technology refreshes and targeted IT projects.  Ron is currently a senior consultant for GlassHouse Technologies in Framingham, MA and is serving as a data protection architect in the Boston area.

Anne Skamarock
Research Director, FOCUS

Anne Skamarock has 30 years of technical, marketing, research, analysis and consulting experience, as an industry analyst, vendor and end-user/administrator. She has held various technical and marketing positions with Sun Microsystems; StorageTek; SRI, International; EMA; and several successful startups. For the past eight years, she has been a market analyst focusing on virtualization and the intersections between systems, storage, and software. Anne’s expertise encompasses systems, storage and storage networking architectures; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection solutions; and tape and disk storage solutions.

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.

Christine Taylor
Analyst, Taneja Group

Christine brings over a decade of industry and communications expertise to the Taneja Group. She has researched and written extensively on the role of technology in eDiscovery, compliance and governance, and information management. She specializes in taking complex technical concepts and clarifying them for technical and non-technical readers. Christine previously served as a systems administrator for Avery Dennison’s Scientific Computing division. From there she entered technical journalism as a senior editor for Computer Technology Review and served as editor-in-chief of Storage Management Solutions. As a marketing communications consultant, she worked with companies like EMC and CommVault.

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.

Lauren Whitehouse
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Lauren is an ESG analyst focusing on backup and recovery software and replication solutions.  A 20+ year veteran in the software industry, she brings extensive experience in enterprise storage and services to ESG. She served as vice president of marketing for Neartek, Network-1 Security, and BakBone Software, where she developed business, product and go-to-market strategies. Lauren spent 11 years at Cheyenne Software and two years with Computer Associates, where she held a number of leadership roles in software development, product management, product marketing, channel marketing and marketing communications. During her tenure at Cheyenne, she led the marketing efforts for its flagship backup product, ARCserve, contributing to its market dominance.