|
Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of FOCUS consulting (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage. Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates, and multiple successful startups.
A frequent speaker, columnist, and author of numerous business and technical white papers and research studies, Barb recently released a book entitled “Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs” (available on Amazon.com). Barb currently chairs Virtualization Insight at Blade Systems Insight 2008, previously chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization, and has been the keynote speaker at numerous events on both virtualization and blades. She also created and chaired the storage networking track at Interop, and has been one of the top three ranked analyst/knowledge expert speakers at Storage Networking World. Since the 1990s, Barb has been a regular expert columnist for publications including NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Storage Networking World Online, TechTarget and Virtual Strategy Magazine.
FOCUS consultingoffers independent market research, analysis, and consulting, focused on systems, software, and storage, in the enterprise, SMB, and government markets. Focus analysts deliver up-to-date and in-depth market knowledge through books, expert columns in leading industry publications, Focus Landscape Reports, Technology Briefs, Solution and Case Study Profiles, Business and Technical White Papers, Virtualization Education and Training, IT Virtualization and Blade Assessments, and custom consulting services.
Focus areas include: Server, Desktop, and Application Virtualization/Streaming; Systems, Storage and Enterprise Management (Physical and Virtual); High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Backup, Data Protection; Storage Networking (NAS, SAN, Fibre Channel, iSCSI); Storage, Networks, I/O and File Virtualization; Storage Technologies (Clustered File Systems, Data deduplication, VTL, etc.); Blade Systems (Server, Workstation and PC Blades); and Business Benefits of Technology (ROI, TCO). www.focusonsystems.com
|
