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on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery (which is now out of print, having been replaced by the more recent Backup & Recovery).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?
For over four years, I was the VP of Data Protection at GlassHouse Technologies, the largest independent provider of professional services in the infrastructure space. My position there was eliminated on Dec 19, 2008. Merry Christmas!
I am now a part-time employee of Tech Target, where I am an Executive Editor. I am also starting my own company that will be giving totally-indepenent product advice to the IT industry.
So that's me. Your turn!
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