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Selected Recent Highlights:
- White paper: The Evolution to a Virtual Data Center
(ghost-written for Datalink, August 2010)
- Blog post archive: My many posts categorized as "IT" or "software"...going back several years
- Blog post: The "Regional" Cloud: A Case Study
(published by ReadWriteWeb, April 21, 2010)
- Blog post: It Was Cloud Week in Minneapolis, and All the Cool Kids (and Old Guys!) Were There
(published by Minnov8.com, April 21, 2009 - also appeared the same day at CloudAve.com)
- Article: 'Cloud Computing' Book Will Examine Hottest IT Trend
(published by Minnov8.com, October 28, 2008)
- Article: "Zen and the Art of Startup Maintenance"
(published by Chief Executive magazine online, May 9, 2008)
- Article: "Minnesota's Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle"
(published by MinnPost.com, May 13, 2008)
- Article: "Tech Coast Angels Founder: 'Process' Was Key to Success"
(published in The Angel Journal, March 2007)
- 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 - this is a 1.8MB pdf)
- Analyst Report: "Compliance: Do No Evil" (commissioned by Byte & Switch Insider, published May 2004).
An 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.
- 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" (I wrote this white paper
for Tidalwire's "Storage Connection" site, published January 2004)
- White Paper (for Adaptec): "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 subsequent year, quoting several of the industry's leading
VCs and analysts.
- 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) - published by Tidalwire "Storage Connection"
- Article: "UTILITY COMPUTING: The Next New IT Model" (April 2003) - published by Darwin Magazine,
and also appeared on their parent company's site, IDG.net, plus on a 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, an IDG site
- Article: "BRANDING: What's in a Name? Well, Everything" (July 2002) - Darwin Magazine, an IDG site
(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)
Could you use a writer with 25 years of broad technology experience?
Email Graeme now to discuss your writing project
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 in about 2004; please contact me if you'd like a Word doc.)
These and more are linked at my bio page at Tidalwire.com (now a Network Engines company.)
Just a Few of My Many Reports on Past Technology Conferences (links may or may not still be active):
Other White Papers:
(Note: unfortunately, the following link at Tidalwire may no longer be
active, since the firm was acquired by Network Engines about 2004.)
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.)
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.
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