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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. 　　

Arun Taneja writes columns and answers questions about data management and related topics.

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.

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 Evaluator Group senior analyst Greg Schulz, author of "Resilient Storage Networks".

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.

SearchStorage was fortunate to be introduced to Curtis Preston and his work at BackupCentral a while ago. Curtis has proved himself to be adept at understanding some of the finer nuances of backup/recovery issues. We believe his advice will be a great help to our readers who are grappling with many of the same issues.

Tape is a simple and cheap backup media, but it's hardly worryfree. Got questions about backing up to tape? Doug Owens has answers.

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)?

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.

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.

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.

Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies Stephen Foskett is a senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies in Framingham, Mass., specializing in storage management strategies and integration. He has also done extensive work in storage area network design and integration and Unix systems management.

2000年进入存储领域，长期承担售前、售后技术工作，参与过多次大型SAN、容灾系统工程，一直从事系统集成中存储解决方案部分，对存储基础架构和发展趋势有独到的见解。
获得HDS产品和解决方案认证，对通用存储平台非常熟悉。擅长绘制网络拓扑图，用图示清楚直观地阐明复杂的系统结构。 对网络存储，尤其是IP存储趋势有自己的看法。曾经就此话题专门撰文，循序渐进地提出了存储“第二网”的概念。重点介绍存储网络化带给用户的优势，例如在高可用，数据持续保护，集中管理和备份。

Author and commentator, BuildingStorage.com Marc Farley has spent the last 12 years specializing in storage networking technology. His knowledge of storage is summarized in his storage reference book, "Building Storage Networks."
Mr. Farley's experience in storage networking includes writing articles and holding various positions in systems engineering, business development, product management, technical marketing, strategic planning and corporate management. He has worked in startups and large corporations including IBM, Hitachi, Crossroads, Palindrome, ConvergeNet, and SanCastle. Marc holds a BS in Physics from the University of Washington.

Pierre Dorion is a Business Continuity Consultant with Mainland Information Systems Inc. in Phoenix, Ariz., specializing in business continuity planning, backup and recovery and data availability as well as IT processes development. Over the past six years, he has focused primarily on storage systems architecture and Business Continuity Services engagements. Mr. Dorion has been a consultant to leading organizations in the oil and gas, manufacturing and distribution, government and crown corporation, mining and insurance industries. He has extensive experience working with backups and storage management solutions in a variety of operating environments with oil & gas, railway, communication and utility companies. Mr. Dorion is also an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Consultant, an authorized IBM TSM Instructor and holds the ITIL Foundation Certificate. He has led the development of the Mainland Methodology based on the ITIL Framework. Mr. Dorion was the lead consultant on the development of Business Continuity Services jointly offered by IBM and Mainland for the Western Canadian region. Focusing mostly on Business Continuity and IT Recovery, he has been a guest speaker on data availability at a number of conferences such as ARMA and CIPS.

Do you have a question about how best to approach managing your storage environment? Brett P. Cooper, a technical marketing engineer, was responsible for bringing to market one of the industry's first storage management solutions. His extensive technical background as well as his handson 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.

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.

Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group Tony Asaro is a senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group responsible for the management of the ESG Lab service. Asaro brings extensive experience and expertise on storage subsystems, NAS solutions, data management software and SAN infrastructure. Asaro works with both storage vendors and enduser customers evaluating storage solutions, assisting with strategic directions and pricing strategies. Asaro was a cofounder of I/O Integrity (IOI) developing a highperformance storage controller as a system on a chip (SOC). Prior to IOI, he ran product management for a data management software company responsible for product requirements, interfacing with customers and strategic directions. Asaro has worked in the hightech industry for over 17 years as a systems engineer, product manager, marketing and business development professional.

Jon brings with him over 20 years of experience in IT and storage. When it comes to research on real-world storage management issues, Jon's more than up to the challenge.

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!