Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist and has authored numerous articles for industry publications. Stephen is a popular presenter at industry events and recently received Microsoft’s MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage. He holds a bachelor of science in Society/Technology Studies, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Today's private storage clouds, as touted by HDS, NetApp, and others, are horses of a different color. Enterprise storage systems are much more flexible and sharable thanks to integrated virtualization and advanced management features. But they retain the traditional enterprise storage...Jan. 14, 2010 09:45 PM EST Reads: 8,777
