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Ask The Storage UK Expert: Meet The Experts |
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Harvey Betan,
Business continuity planning consultant
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Business continuity, disaster recovery
Harvey Betan is a certified business continuity (BC) planning consultant with experience in disaster recovery (DR) in both technology and business functions. He migrated to BC after the restoration of a large insurance company with a major presence in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. His career has spanned a dozen years in business continuity after a 15 year career as a senior manager in information technology for the financial, insurance and non-profit sectors. |
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David Boyd,
GlassHouse Technologies (UK), Senior Consultant
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Backup
David Boyd is a Senior Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies UK. Boyd has over 7 years experience in backup and storage, with a major focus on designing and implementing backup solutions for companies. Prior to joining GlassHouse in 2004, Boyd headed up the backup team at COLT Telecommunications. |
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Tom Brand,
Virtualisation Practice Lead, GlassHouse Technologies
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Storage networking
Tom Brand has more than 12 years of business IT experience. Since joining GlassHouse, he has focused on delivering projects that focus on the use of virtualisation. He joined GlassHouse from Morse, where he was a senior consultant delivering virtualisation, storage and backup solutions. Before that, Tom held consulting roles at Deloitte & Touche, TechMS and Vodafone. He is an active member of the management team for the London VMware Usergroup. |
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Michael Cock,
IT Manager, DST Global Solutions
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Storage networking
Michael Cock is IT manager at DST Global Solutions, a technology solutions provider to businesses in the financial, utilities and telco/communications sectors. After leaving education at Oxford University, Michael joined Sutton and East Surrey Water as a data input clerk. From there, he has progressed to his current role in which he manages all aspects of the utility's IT systems. |
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Tom Codling,
consultant, GlassHouse Technologies UK
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Backup
Tom's role includes architecture, design and implementation of backup and recovery solutions across all industry sectors. Tom has experience in many enterprise-level environments including the protection of 24 x 7 mission critical application and virtualised environments utilising advanced backup methodologies and technology. |
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Jon Collins,
service director, Freeform Dynamics
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Business continuity, disaster recovery
Jon has an end-user background, having worked as an IT consultant, network manager and software engineer for companies such as Admiral Management Services, Alcatel and Philips Electronics. Through positions such as these, Jon has accumulated significant real world expertise and experience in many areas of IT service delivery over the years, including IT service management, IT security, storage and information management, IT architecture and application development.
Jon has worked as an industry analyst since 1999 for companies including IDC, Bloor Research, Quocirca and Macehiter Ward-Dutton. He is a widely published author and has acted as an advisor to leading vendors including Cisco, EMC, IBM and Microsoft; and to large IT user organisations in the Government, telecommunications and financial services sectors. |
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Allaster Finke,
Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK)
Categories:
Backup,
Datacenter migrations, disaster recovery
Allaster Finke is a senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), a global provider of IT infrastructure services. Finke has more than eight years of experience in the design and deployment of complex storage networks, backup, high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Prior to working for GlassHouse, Finke worked for Unisys as a senior consultant. |
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Greg Gawthorpe,
Technical Operations Manager, CMC Markets
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Backup
Greg has been in IT for more than 12 years. At CMC Markets he heads up a team that manages backups and replication across dual data centres using Bakbone Netvault:Backup, Data Domain data deduplication and Nexsan SATABeast arrays. |
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Matt Jeavons,
IT and business architect, B2net
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Matt Jeavons heads B2net's architecture and project management practices. Prior to joining B2net, Jeavons led the architecture team at Wolverhampton City Council where he enjoyed 10 years developing the council's project management and operations teams. At B2net, Jeavons is responsible for working with customers to architect solutions that ensure a match between business needs and choice of technology. |
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Simon Johnson,
Data Recovery Practice Lead, GlassHouse Technologies
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Datacenter migrations, disaster recovery,
Business continuity, disaster recovery
Simon Johnson is the data recovery practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK). He has more than 10 years of data protection, consolidation and transformation experience. During his time at GlassHouse, Simon has worked across all industry verticals. Before Simon joined GlassHouse he was a data management consultant at Barclaycard and prior to that he was a data recovery consultant at reseller Tectrade. |
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Clive Longbottom,
Service director, Quocirca
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Clive Longbottom is service director for Quocirca. Within this role, Clive covers how technologies support the business, looking at the need for flexibility in the components utilised within an organisation's infrastructure. At the storage level, this means looking at how storage can be best utilised, through the use of virtualisation, and how business value can be maximised while storage costs are minimised through the use of techniques such as data deduplication, master data management and so on. Clive presents world-wide on data centre matters, and has worked with many large and small storage vendors, helping them to better position their products in the market. |
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Hamish E. Macarthur,
Founder, Macarthur Stroud International
Categories:
Backup,
Long term data retention
Hamish E. Macarthur is the founder of Macarthur Stroud International. His experience encompasses the computer and telecommunications markets in Europe and the United States. Assignments completed include strategic market issues through to implementation of business plans and the preparation of investment schedules for a wide range of supplier and user organisations. He has worked with many of the major vendors in the information technology industry including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett Packard, Brocade, Storage Technology, Sony and many other leading technology companies. |
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Bilal Mehdi,
Senior Consultant, Glasshouse Technologies (UK)
Categories:
SAN management,
Storage networking
Bilal Mehdi has a decade's experience in large system storage and database design, project management and storage consultancy across the telecoms, financial services and public sectors in the UK and Pakistan. Bilal has a bachelors degree in electronics engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. |
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Steve Pinder,
Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd.
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Steve Pinder is a principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd. He has more than 11 years of experience in backup and storage technologies, and has been involved in many deployments for companies of varying size. Prior to working for GlassHouse, Steve was an IT contractor in backup and network management roles. He has a BSc Hons in Computer and Communication Systems. |
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W. Curtis Preston
Categories:
Backup
W. Curtis Preston (a.k.a. "Mr. Backup"), Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert, has been singularly focused on data backup and recovery for more than 15 years. From starting as a backup admin at a $35 billion dollar credit card company to being one of the most sought-after consultants, writers and speakers in this space, it's hard to find someone more focused on recovering lost data. He is the webmaster of BackupCentral.com, the author of hundreds of articles, and the books "Backup and Recovery" and "Using SANs and NAS." |
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Frank Purcell,
team leader, IS division, City of London Corporation
Categories:
SAN management
Over the last 25 years Frank has worked as an IT professional in the manufacturing and banking industries and, most recently, in the public sector. Frank manages a team of five, specifically looking after storage, backup and the application virtualisation infrastructure for the City of London Corporation. |
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Chris Puttick,
CIO, Oxford Archaeology
Categories:
SAN management,
Storage networking
Chris joined Oxford Archaeology in the newly created position of CIO in January 2006. Previously he worked for an IT solutions company in the education sector as a consultant and project manager, and before that managed IT for a group of educational institutions in Manchester. He graduated in management from UMIST. |
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Chris Reid,
Consultant, Morse
Categories:
Backup,
SAN management,
Long term data retention
Chris Reid has 12 years of IT experience in a variety of roles encompassing management, consultancy and pre-sales. Working for Morse for the past eight years, Chris has been has been managing a number of consultancy teams working on infrastructure design including disaster recovery, storage management, SAN/NAS and virtualisation projects. With extensive technical background in enterprise-level architectures, Chris has successfully enabled the delivery of pre-sales and consultancy as well as leading design, testing and implementation projects for numerous Morse customers in the finance, retail and telecommunications sectors. Chris now leads the storage team at Morse and develops the consulting propositions around data management, storage provisioning and automation. |
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Alastair Roy,
Technical consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK)
Categories:
Drives and disk arrays
Alastair Roy is a technical consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK). Alastair has 18 years experience in the IT industry, with eight years involved in the day-to-day maintenance and support of Solaris and various disk arrays. Prior to joining GlassHouse in 2009, Alastair was a senior analyst for Express Newspapers. |
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Brian Sakovitch,
senior consultant, GlassHouse Technologies (UK)
Categories:
Backup
Brian Sakovitch, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), has been involved in backup for six years in roles that range from hands-on implementation to design and theory. Before joining GlassHouse in 2005, Sakovitch was backup operations lead with a medium-sized networking operations centre. He has a BS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. |
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Greg Schulz,
Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO
Categories:
Storage networking
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". |
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Dennis Szubert,
Principal analyst, Quocirca
Categories:
Storage networking
Dennis Szubert is principal analyst at Quocirca, specialising in storage platforms and technical architectures. With more than 19 years in the industry, Dennis has produced reports, white papers and articles on various storage technologies and participates in round tables and presents at vendor and industry events. Area of expertise -- networked storage and information management. |
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Martin Taylor,
Converged Network Manager, Royal Horticultural Society
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Martin Taylor is converged network manager at the Royal Horticultural Society. He heads up a team whose duties
include managing storage on dual Compellent SANs that support the society's vast digital image library. |
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