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.

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.

Russ Fellows
Senior Analyst and Managing Partner, Evaluator Group

As Senior Analyst and Managing Partner for Evaluator Group, Russ is responsible for setting corporate strategy, and establishing product development, marketing and distribution decisions for the company.  Prior to his role as Managing Partner, Russ was a senior analyst leading the research and analysis activities for Evaluator Group. Russ is a well-regarded and successful professional with 20 years of high technology experience including IT management, product design, product development, systems engineering, business strategy development, competitive analysis and portfolio management within both vendor and end-user companies.

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.

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.

Terri McClure
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Terri is an ESG analyst focusing on network attached storage, file systems, file system management and file-based storage virtualization. Prior to joining ESG, Terri spent 11 years with the EMC Corporation, where she filled a variety of roles. She began her career at EMC in 1997 as a Senior Product Manager in Field Marketing, handling sales training and support for EMC's NAS and storage management products. From 1998 through 2003, she was a key member of the analyst relations team that transformed the way EMC handled analyst relations, and was a 2003 EMC President's award nominee for her work in this area. In late 2003, Terri was tapped to lead an effort to build a central, scalable customer reference program to help deliver this proof through EMC's sales force, partners and marketing programs, while strengthening customer relationships. Prior to EMC, Terri held a variety of domestic and international marketing and manufacturing management roles at IPL Systems, Inc.

Michael Passe
Storage Architect, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Michael Passe has more than seventeen years of industry experience supporting distributed computing and storage infrastructure. As Storage Architect for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he leads efforts to create, plan and manage the ever growing storage footprint of BIDMC. Major projects include implementation of a multi-tiered storage architecture built on EMC hardware, which is now being expanded to include private cloud storage, and migration from past backup software to a new environment, which leverages disk exclusively.

Michael also engages in long term capacity planning for the storage needs of the organization, focusing on issues of storage migration for technology refreshment. Prior to joining CareGroup, Michael was a Network Specialist at Boston University, and a Network Architect at Xerotex in Newark, New Jersey. Michael has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a specialization in Computer Engineering.

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
Senior 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, TechTarget and Independent Backup Expert

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.

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.

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.