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.

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.

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.

Marc Staimer
CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Marc Staimer is the 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 6+ years provides consulting to the end-user (>200) and vendor (>70) communities. Most of his consulting is in the areas of strategic planning as well as product and market development. Marc's 23 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.

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.