Eric Burgener
Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group

Eric brings a wealth of cross functional expertise that spans over 20 years in the high tech industry.  He advises clients on data protection, archiving, data reduction technologies including deduplication and compression, DPM and WAFS/WDS.  Eric has particular experience with emerging technologies, having worked extensively with high availability computing, heterogeneous replication, storage management and virtualization, and continuous data technologies during the early formative years for these technologies from the vendor side.  Eric joins The Taneja Group from Mendocino Software, where he was the Vice President of Marketing.  He holds a BA degree from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

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.

George Crump
Founder and Senior Analyst, Storage Switzerland

George Crump is President and Founder of Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on the storage andvirtualization market segments. With 25 years ofexperiencedesigning storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one of the nation’s largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.

Eduardo Delgado
Storage Architect, RiskMetrics Group, Inc.

Ed Delgado has worked as a Systems Administrator for eight years for Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. He has been the Storage Architect at RiskMetrics Group (RMG), Inc. since 2003 and has overseen the Storage Environment grow from 20TB in four locations to 220TB in seven locations. He introduced storage tiers into the environment at Riskmetrics Group, helping to meet the wanted performance goals while maintaining costs low. Ed has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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.

Jeff Harbert
Engagement Partner, 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.

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
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.

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 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.

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.

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.