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Vijay Ahuja,
Founder and President, Cipher Solutions
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Dr. Vijay Ahuja is the president and founder of Cipher Solutions, Inc., a professional services company that assists its clients in implementing storage security and offers customized seminars on storage and network security issues. With over 30 years' experience in networking, information security and storage security, Dr. Ahuja provides great depth to help our searchStorage readers who have questions related to data and network storage security. He's one of the most knowledgeable storage security experts we've come across! |
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Mike Casey,
Principal Analyst, Contoural, Inc.
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With the corporate scandals and new government acts like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA it's probably smart to know exactly where and who has access to your data. Look to compliance and data retention strategist Mike Casey from Contoural, Inc. to answer your questions on how best to make your storage regulatory compliant. |
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Brett Cooper
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Do you have a question about how best to approach managing your storage environment? Brett P. Cooper was responsible for bringing to market one of the industry's first storage management solutions. His extensive technical background as well as his hands-on experience bringing new products to market gives him a great background with which to address the issues surrounding storage management and how to solve them. |
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Dorian Cougias,
President and CEO, Network Frontiers LLC
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Have a problem with backing up? Who doesn't these days? Windows that are too short, tape failures and recovery times that are too long. Get advice on how to solve these problems and more from Dorian Cougias, consultant and author of "The Backup Book". |
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Ashley D'Costa,
Enterprise Solutions Architect, Mainland Information Systems Inc.
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Storage Management
Ashley D'Costa is an enterprise solutions architect for Mainland Information Systems Inc. |
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Pierre Dorion,
Data Center Practice Director, Long View Systems Inc.
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Backup: Business Continuity
How do you keep your backups backing up during a crisis? You start by creating a solid business continuity plan. Our business continuity expert Pierre Dorion can help. |
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Marc Farley,
Author and commentator, BuildingStorage.com
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Storage networking is such a catch-all category. It covers the gamut of just about every enterprise storage subject under the sun. Who better to handle the broad range of questions that fall in this category than Marc Farley? |
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Stephen Foskett,
Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies
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Stephen Foskett writes the Best Practices column for Storage magazine and has done extensive work in SAN design and integration. |
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Norbert Haag,
Independent consultant
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Do you have a question about your current storage environment, how well it's performing or how to budget your storage resources for the future? Storage management expert Norbert Hagg is an independent consultant and has worked throughout the world. He specializes in storage resource management and can help with financial analysis, assessing your needs, and strategic planning. |
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Randy Kerns,
Independent storage consultant
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If you're looking for specific answers to network-attached storage (NAS) questions, Randy can help. He's carefully assessed the merits of many of the NAS devices currently on the marketplace and often advises Fortune 100 and 500 customers on their options in this area. |
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Evan Marcus,
Senior Systems Engineer, Office of the CTO, Archivas Inc.
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If you need an answer on a tricky data availability issue, why not ask Evan Marcus, one of the authors of this industry classic on the subject, "Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems" (2000, John Wiley & Sons)? |
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Doug Owens,
Managing Director, CBL Data Recovery Technologies
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Tape is a simple and cheap backup media, but it's hardly worry-free. Got questions about backing up to tape? Doug Owens has answers. |
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Christopher Poelker,
Storage Architect, Co-author, SAN for Dummies
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If you are in the midst of storage area network (SAN) implementation or planning, Chris is a great resource to have on hand. He's been there himself well over a hundred times (we're sure!), and can offer some good insights on cross-platform considerations, LUN masking techniques, and more. |
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Brendan Reilly,
CTO, SANZ Incorporated
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Many of you pump millions of dollars into your elaborate data center hardware. For the most part your hardware is reliable. But, for those times when drives fail, robotic arms malfunction down to spliced cables -- ask Brendan Reilly, our storage hardware expert how to solve these issues. Other areas our expert can help: warranties, SLAs and RFPs. |
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Greg Schulz,
Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO
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Storage Networking: SAN/NAS
Storage networking is a tricky proposition. Switching, DWDM, SAN extension, SONET/SDH, IP are all considerations in making your systems global, accessible and cost-effective. For help with any of these technologies, turn to StorageIO founder and senior analyst Greg Schulz, author of "Resilient Storage Networks". |
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Marc Staimer,
President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
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Marc Staimer is president and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, Oregon. 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 and vendor communities. Most of his consulting is in the areas of strategic planning as well as product and market development. Staimer'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.
Click here to check out Staimer's blog. |
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Arun Taneja,
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
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Arun Taneja writes columns and answers questions about data management and related topics.
Click here to check out Taneja's blog. |
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Bill Tolson,
Principal Analyst and Practice Manager, Contoural Inc
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Bill Tolson is a principal analyst and practice manager for Contoural Inc. and has more than 15 years experience in the storage industry including storage solutions like e-mail archiving, enterprise content management and information lifecycle management. |
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