About Enterprise Storage Forum

What We Do

For more than a decade, Enterprise Storage Forum has provided storage professionals with in-depth technical and business insights by focusing exclusively on the information needs of data storage professionals. To do this, the site relies on the journalism expertise of its editorial staff and the knowledge of the industry experts that include independent analysts and consultants and storage industry associations who provide lab reviews, opinions and new product coverage.

Topics commonly found on Enterprise Storage Forum include storage management (such as virtualization and data duplication), backup and recovery, (such as disaster recovery and business continuity, cloud storage, disk-based backup, and tape and archiving), disk arrays (such as RAID and controllers, disk drives and SSDs), storage area networking (such as Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI), IP SANs and network-attached storage.

Our Editorial Calendar

These special topics will be covered on Enterprise Storage Forum and across all IT Business Edge Network sites in 2013. Our coverage will not be limited to these topics, but we plan to leverage resources across the network to take an in-depth look at a key topic each month.

January The Cloud	July Virtualization
February Mobile trends in the enterprise	August Security
March Windows 8	September Disaster recovery and business continuity
April The social enterprise	October Cloud storage
May Big Data	November Storage Management
June Budgeting and purchasing	December Storage Networking

Who We Are

James Maguire is Enterprise Storage Forum's Senior Managing Editor and has been reporting on technology topics for more than 10 years. He has covered the gamut of enterprise and consumer technology, and regularly communicates with leading IT newsmakers, vendors and analysts. To discuss editorial submissions, content syndication, or to provide feedback on the site, contact him at jmaguire@quinstreet.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JamesMaguire.

Henry Newman, CEO and CTO of Instrumental, is a regular Enterprise Storage Forum contributor. Henry brings 29 years of experience as an industry consultant in high-performance computing and storage to the site.

Jeff Layton is the Enterprise Technologist for HPC at Dell and a regular writer of all things HPC and storage on Enterprise Storage Forum.

Enterprise Storage Forum is part of the IT Business Edge Network, which consists of some of the most well-regarded sites in the technology publishing business –- including Datamation, ServerWatch, Small Business Computing, DevX and Developer.com. Led by Editor-in-Chief Paul Shread, our more than 150 journalists, analysts, and editors produce award-winning and actionable information around the clock and from around the world.

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