This expert witness has over twenty-five years of industry experience as an industry practitioner and independent consultant.  His company is focused on storage technology and the storage technology products that benefit enterprise data centers and the emerging small office and home office ( SOHO ) markets.  In addition to the recent publication of Storage Networks: The Complete Reference, his consulting practice includes storage consulting, technology assessment, and industry research and analysis.  He started his career with IBM working with 370 mainframe computers and storage configurations and subsequently became involved in advanced systems activities such as performance and tuning, capacity planning and I/O workload balancing.  This has provided the foundation for his leading edge research and analysis of storage technologies and markets.

• Advanced Operating System Architectures
• Archival Systems
• Backup and Recovery Systems
• BCP
• Business Continuity Systems
• Data Protection
• Data Storage Management Principles
• High Capacity Disk Technologies
• InfiniBand Technologies
• iSCSI Technologies
• Massively Parallel Processing Systems
• MPP
• NAS
• Network Attached Storage
• RAID
• Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
• Relational Database Architecture and Technology
• SAN
• SMP
• Storage Area Networks
• Symmetrically Processing and Clustered Systems

• Business Administration Degree

Expert Witness Services:

• Technical Consultant