Strategic Vision
Michael Peterson is CEO of Strategic Research Corp. a market and business development consultancy focused on helping companies achieve success in the storage, server, and I/O systems domains. I’m also working with David Baumann and our team of experts through TechNexxus, an IT consultancy focused on retention and risk management (eDiscovery and litigation support, compliance, and digital risk management practices including information security, deletion, and retention practices.) And, with Don Post and the IMERGE team providing planning, design, and implementation guidance for long-term digital retention and preservation services and repositories. Among my many interesting projects, I have designed and implemented a OAIS compatible preservation store and service for the entertainment industry for ContentBridge, a digital asset management and distribution service.
For both practices, we have established reference model websites and are building communities of expert practitioners in each field. Come join us.
www.ltdprm.org – Long-Term Digital Preservation Reference Model
www.ilm20.org – Information Lifecycle Management 2.0 (ILM2.0) Reference Model
In addition to these IT facing services, I also work with Mike Gluck through MarketFusion, our world-wide corporate development service. MarketFusion is a rejuvenation of my MarketFusion events from the late 1990s. Rather than providing services for startups related to funding and M&A, the new MarketFusion focuses on partnership development between large integrators and distributors and hot new technology companies. We have now entered into a partnership with StoreAlliance to create a new class of event, “StartupVillage” bridging technology startups with large enterprise customers. The host is CRIP, a very large IT association based in France. Take a look at our website, www.marketfusion.org
In this blog, I write about issues and technologies that concern me and hopefully are helpful to the industries I serve.
I have an unusual vantage point, getting to work inside SNIA as well as many startups and then seeing the customer’s viewpoint first-hand. I get to see the industry from the inside-out and the outside-in. SNIA offers an interesting counterpoint to what may seem a pretty normal view for most who are engaged with customer-facing activities such as the many integrators we work with. I remember still my first consulting engagement with Epoch Systems in 1992 with then CEO, Bob Davoli challenging me to add some real value to the industry through helping the vendors get closer to their customers. I took that challenge and built a strong practice conducting primary research and bringing that knowledge into helping to guide the industry and customers.
I also get to work on terminology, architectures, and positioning a lot so you’ll hear me being very specific on terms and practices in this blog. Hopefully, that will be helpful. And, as a last comment, I’ve spent years writing articles for everyone else and seeing limited distribution and publication. Time to do it for myself so that what I have to say is available to all through our various websites.
