Recent Highlights: White Paper: "Email-Archiving Regulatory Compliance for Small and Midsized Firms (SMBs)" (written for Sony Electronics and Intradyn Inc. - orginally published in March 2005, updated July 2005 - caution: a 1.8MB pdf) Analyst Report: "Compliance: Do No Evil" (commissioned by Byte & Switch Insider, published May 2004). Please contact me if you'd like more information about this extensive research and writing project I completed on how data storage and email archiving are impacted by regulatory compliance, including a survey of vendor solutions. You can also get more information about this report, and others, here. Cover Story: "How Does Storage Fit Into Utility Computing?" (freelanced for InfoStor, April 2004 issue ... also appeared in InfoStor Europe, Q2 2004) Conference Report (Network Storage 2004, Monterey, CA): "Storage Execs: Vendors Must Simplify Technologies" (freelanced for eWeek, 3/10/04 - to get my report on day two, just email me) Article: "What Makes a Storage Startup Succeed?" (January 19, 2004 - Storage Networking World Online, published by Computerworld) White Paper: "How HBA Selection Affects Total Cost of SAN Ownership" (456k PDF download - I wrote this white paper for Tidalwire's "Storage Connection" site, published January 2004) White Paper: "The Cost Benefits of an iSCSI SAN" (published November 2003) Conference Report: "Storage Buzz Fest - Notes From SNW" A brief report, plus extensive notes, from my attendance at the very upbeat "Storage Networking World" event held in Orlando, FL, in October 2003 (the largest one ever) Article: "What Makes Some Startups Succeed? Surprising Findings..." (October 8, 2003) - Darwin Magazine, an IDG publication....companion site to CIO.com Research Report: "The Byte and Switch Insider 2003 VC Report" (August 2003) - Byte and Switch, the Global Site for Storage Networking....a publication of Light Reading Inc. This site is the leading news & information resource for the storage and storage-networking industry. The editors commissioned me to write this report, which tracks investment for the past year in this very hot sector and includes a wealth of previously unpublished information, plus several charts and tables detailing investment by category, the most active VCs, etc. It looks at trends, technologies, and the outlook for the coming year, quoting several of the industry's leading VCs and analysts. More information about this 9000-word, 22-page report is available in this Byte & Switch article and also at its sister site Light Reading. White Paper: "WORM Technology: Storing Fixed-Content, Non-Erasable Data" (August 2003) (ghost-written for Datalink, a leading storage architect/integration firm based in Minneapolis) White Paper: "Simplicity Rules: Appliance Popularity Surges" (June 2003) - Tidalwire "Storage Connection" Article: "What's On the Storage Horizon?" (May 2003) - Tidalwire "Storage Connection" Article: "UTILITY COMPUTING: The Next New IT Model" (April 2003) - Darwin Magazine (this article also appeared on their parent company's site, IDG.net... on a new site called UtilityComputing.com, based in the UK... and on the CIO Magazine-Australia web site. Article: "STORAGE: Taking Aim at the Mainstream Market" (December 2002) - Darwin Magazine Article: "BRANDING: What's in a Name? Well, Everything" (July 2002) - Darwin Magazine (this article also appeared on the Computerworld-Australia site and on BrandChannel.com in the Brand Papers section) Article Series (four parts): Extending Storage Over WANs - Part 1 (July 2003) - InfoStor Magazine (the first in a series of articles I ghost wrote/edited for CNT Corp., a leading storage company based in Minneapolis...with subsequent articles appearing in the Aug, Sept, and Oct 2003 issues of InfoStor) Other Articles for Publication: (Note: unfortunately, the links for the following Tidalwire articles are no longer active, since the firm was acquired by Network Engines two years ago; please contact me for Word docs.)        These and more are linked at my bio page at Tidalwire.com (now a Network Engines company.) "Infiniband Forges On, Thanks to Low-Cost Linux Clusters" (December 2002) "Is the Enterprise Storage Market Losing Luster?" (October 2002) "Hold the Phone on Linux Storage--Veritas Just Jumped In With Both Feet" (August 2002) "Linux Storage Advances as OS Readies for Prime Time" (July 2002) "Startups Seek to Disrupt Content-Delivery Business" (June 2002) "Storage Services Still Growth Business Despite Overhype of Total Outsourcing" (May 2002) Just a Few of My Many Reports on Past Technology Conferences: The Forbes/Gilder Storewidth.com 2003 Conference As I reported for Conferenza.com. A recap of the same event... As reported on Storewidth.com. The Gilder Storewidth 2002 Conference As reported on Tidalwire.com. Red Herring's "NDA" 2001 Conference RH's swan song, as I reported it on Conferenza.com. The full recap of NDA 2001... As I reported it to my own email list. An article recapping the NDA 2001 event... As it appeared in Business 2.0. O'Reilly's original "P2P Conference" - February 2001 As I reported it to my email list and posted to my web site. Other White Papers: (Note: unfortunately, the following link at Tidalwire may no longer be active, since the firm was acquired by Network Engines two years ago.) Beginning in early 2002, I was commissioned on a regular basis by the editors of Tidalwire's award-winning content site, "The Storage Connection," to write white papers on various topics. These papers were originally made available in PDF format at my bio page there. These white papers are also accessible at the following links at my own site.) "Simplicity Rules: Appliance Popularity Surges" (June 2003) "The Storage Management Imperative" (March 2003) "A SAN In Every SMB or Enterprise Workgroup?" (January 2003) "SMB: Next Big Battleground for Storage Industry Growth" (October 2002) (this paper was also reprinted at Network World's "NW Fusion" site) "A Snapshot of the Current State of Linux Storage" (July 2002) (also reprinted at a Gilder Publishing site, Storewidth.com, and at TechTarget's SearchStorage.com) A major white paper I wrote in late 2002, on the topic of "utility computing," is available at the following link at my own site. It's also been picked up widely on the Internet by many content sites, including several run by IT Toolbox, UtilityComputing.com, TechTarget.com, and others. "New-Reality IT: How Less Can Be More" (January 2003)