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.
Contributions from Marc Staimer
- Self-healing systems and RAID technology
- Clustered NAS systems can ease NAS management
- Fail-in-place systems: Avoiding hard disk drive failures
- Value-added reseller (VAR) channel opportunities in the unified integrated computing space
- Storage, heal thyself 2
- Pros and cons of storage capacity management tools
- Seven network storage predictions for 2007
- Look through the over-hyped storage terms; find the value
- Archives and data protection: The important differences
- Archives and data protection: They are NOT the same
- Programmable storage adapters: Why they actually make sense
- Overlooking hardware acquisition costs can and will hurt you
- Backing up a LUN snapshot
- The rapid evolution of NAS -- it's no longer simple storage
- Plan ahead to skip storage snags
- Six network storage predictions for '06
- Troubleshooting clustered server issues
- Differentiating WAN Optimization and WAFS
- Setting up RAID
- RAID striping