Who is Curtis Preston?

It all started in a little house in Jacksonville, Florida.  My father loved my mother very much, and...  Oh.  Too far back? I'm an expert in backup & recovery systems and have been working with them since 1993 and a consultant in the space in 1996.  I've used everything from dump, tar, & cpio to enterpise-level backup software, and most tape drives from a 9-track reel to today's terabyte drives.  I've written three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery (which is now out of print, having been replaced by the more recent Backup & Recovery). I'm working on a new book, but at my current rate it may be a while.  I'm also a frequent speaker and writer for Tech Target and other technical publications. History I started my career in backups as "the backup guy" for MBNA, who was at that time the second largest credit card company.  I managed the backups as we grew from 15 to 250 servers, and from 2 operating systems to 5 operating systems, running Informix, Oracle, Sybase & other applicaitons.  Windows was just beginning to grow in the datacenter. I left MBNA to join Collective Technologies in 1996, which was a large consulting company that made a lot of money in the .com days, but didn't quite make it through them.  (Technically, they did, but with less than 1/4th of its employees.)  I owe a lot to my time at that company, and to the support of some incredible people that I still stay in contact with to this day. In February of 2001 I started my own company called The Storage Group, and we specialized in backup & recovery system design, implementation, and management.  Things grew for three years, at which point the competition offered to buy me out.  Who was I to say no? I am now the VP of Data Protection at GlassHouse Technologies, the largest independent provider of professional services in the infrastructure space.  We have services in backup & recovery, storage management, datacenter management, and server virtualization.  We are headquartered in Framingham, MA, with offices in the UK, Israel, Turkey, and dozens of US cities. So that's me.  Your turn!