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Enterprise Storage Forum is your source for in-depth coverage of data storage technology and trends. For still more insight, following data storage experts on social media is a great way to stay on top of the data storage industry. Here are 15 storage experts that deserve a follow, in no particular order. We welcome your comments and suggestions about additional storage experts worth following.
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This Gartner research director knows what makes modern data centers tick, particularly emerging storage technologies. |
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Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), helps IT leaders make sense of the ever-evolving storage market. |
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Head of Foskett Services and organizer of the Tech Field Day event series, Stephen Foskett can be counted on fresh perspectives on enterprise storage and virtualization. |
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Founder and Chief Scientist at DeepStorage, a data storage and management analysis and testing lab. No trend in cutting-edge storage trend escapes his watchful eye. |
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Specializing in open systems storage and virtualization, consultant and technology analyst Chris M. Evans brings clarity to the often-murky intersection of IT innovation and business. |
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HPE Blogger and Storage Evangelist Calvin Zito provides an insider’s view of the happenings inside one of the industry’s leading enterprise storage companies. A good source of information, not only for existing HPE storage customers, but folks interested in seeing how the industry is adapting to flash and cloud-enabled storage. |
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Need software-defined data center (SDDC) insights? Duncan Epping, prolific author and Chief Technologist at VMware’s Storage and Availability division, provides a wealth of them. |
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Responsible for VMware’s fastest-growing product lines, namely vSAN and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings, this executive is a trove of information for customers and IT leaders considering more modern approaches to data storage services and management. |
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Schulz founded IT advisory firm StorageIO in 2006 and is a reliable source of insights on big data, data protection and cloud computing, among many other IT topics. The VMware vExpert and Microsoft MVP for cloud and data center management is also author of the book, Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials. |
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General Manager at IBM Storage, and former CEO of data protection specialist Catalogic Software, he’s a good person to follow to see how IBM’s big bet on flash and NVMe storage is shaking out. |
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The Chief Technical Architect at Druva, Mr. Backup himself, knows data backup and recovery systems and methods inside and out. Storage admins that value their data will want to check on his feeds often. |
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Hyperconverged infrastructure is taking over the data center. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO of hyperconvergence innovator Nutanix is worth following. |
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With previous roles in both Dell and EMC, ESG Senior Analyst Scott Sinclair has an insider’s perspective on the enterprise storage market, |
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As Director and analyst at Evaluator Group, Camberley Bates often showcases the latest trends shaping the enterprise storage market. |
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Hailing from Australia, Dan Frith is known for his frequent and insightful views on storage systems, flash storage, cloud data protection solutions and much more. |
Pedro Hernandez is a contributor to Datamation, eWEEK, and the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Previously, he served as a managing editor for the Internet.com network of IT-related websites and as the Green IT curator for GigaOM Pro.
Enterprise Storage Forum offers practical information on data storage and protection from several different perspectives: hardware, software, on-premises services and cloud services. It also includes storage security and deep looks into various storage technologies, including object storage and modern parallel file systems. ESF is an ideal website for enterprise storage admins, CTOs and storage architects to reference in order to stay informed about the latest products, services and trends in the storage industry.
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