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 in TechNexxus, an IT consultancy focused on risk management (eDiscovery and litigation support, compliance, and digital risk management practices including information security, deletion, and retention practices.) 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. 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 and 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.
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