Contributors to SearchNetworking
Current Contributors
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Eugene Alfaro is the CTO of IT engineering for Cornerstone Technologies, an IT engineering services firm in San Jose, Calif. He has architected, managed and operated corporate IT environments for multinational companies since 1998. He has been a speaker on topics such as virtualization, private/public cloud services, WAN optimization, enterprise storage and VoIP, among others. Cornerstone helps organizations to seamlessly migrate to and adopt private/public cloud services.
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Gary Audin has more than 40 years of computer, communications and security experience. He has planned, designed, specified, implemented and operated data, LAN and telephone networks. These have included local area, national and international networks as well as VoIP and IP convergent networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.
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Kevin Beaver is an information security consultant, writer, professional, speaker and expert witness with Atlanta-based Principle Logic LLC.
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Destiny Bertucci is a head geek at SolarWinds.
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Samuel Bickham is senior engineer at NetCraftsmen and has 12 years of experience in the networking industry.
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Bridget Botelho joined TechTarget as a reporter in 2007 and has covered a variety of technologies and IT industry trends.
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Michael Brandenburg is an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan, covering infrastructure and unified communications with the information and communications Technologies group.
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John Burke is CIO and principal research analyst with Nemertes Research. With nearly two decades of technology experience, he has worked at all levels of IT, including end-user support specialist, programmer, system administrator, database specialist, network administrator, network architect and systems architect.
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H. Paris Burstyn is a freelance writer covering communications-related topics including cloud services, IoT, M2M and channel strategies.
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Michael Bushong is the vice president of marketing at Plexxi, where he focuses on using silicon photonics for SDN-based data center products.
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Steve Campbell performs IT consulting services in the telepresence, video conferencing and network services infrastructure areas. Learn more about Campbell in this brief biography.
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Jeff Carrell is a networking consultant who develops and teaches courses. He is also a co-author with Ed Tittel of the Guide to TCP/IP, 4th edition (Cengage Learning, 2012).
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Brandon Carroll is president and CEO of Global Config Technology Solutions.
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Jed is a network engineer with more than a decade of experience in the IT industry. He has a bachelor's degree in Information Systems and holds the Cisco CCNP and CCDP, Juniper JNCIA and VMware VCP5-DCV certifications.
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Lisa Caywood is currently the senior product marketing manager for data center IP products at Brocade Communications, focused on the intersection of fabrics and SDN.
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Mike Chapple, Ph. D., CISA, CISSP, is a senior director of IT with the University of Notre Dame.
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Philip Clarke is an expert on mobility and a senior research analyst with Nemertes Research, where he researches wireless and mobility trends that affect the enterprise.
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Michael Cobb , CISSP-ISSAP is a renowned security author with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry.
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Dan Conde is an IT analyst and consultant.
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Alistair Croll is an entrepreneur, author, and event organizer focused on emerging technologies and how they'll affect society.. He coordinates many technical events and has authored "Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QoS Across Enterprise Networks" (Prentice Hall PTR, 1999) and co-authored "Complete Web Monitoring" (O'Reilly) with Sean Power.
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George Crump is president of Storage Switzerland, an IT analyst firm focused on the storage and virtualization segments.
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Jamison Cush is the Executive Editor of Products Content at TechTarget.
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Jonathan Dame worked as a reporter for weekly and daily newspapers in Massachusetts before joining TechTarget as a news writer.
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James Damoulakis is an IT professional with more than 25 years of experience in systems, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery (DR).
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Paul DeBeasi is the Research Vice President for enterprise mobility at Gartner. DeBeasi is a well-respected industry leader with more than 25 years of experience in the communication and wireless industries.
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Lee Doyle is a principal analyst at Doyle Research. At Doyle Research, Lee researches the evolution of intelligent networks: SDN, OPEX and COTS.
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Dennis Drogseth is vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates.
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Eamon McCarthy Earls is the founder and director of Global North Institute.
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Alan R. Earls is a freelance writer focused on business and technology.
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Jason Edelman is a senior solutions architect who covers emerging and disruptive technologies, especially network virtualization and software-defined networking.
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Rainer Enders has over 25 years of experience in the networking and security industry, particularly VPN.
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Jennifer English is site editor for SearchNetworking in TechTarget’s Networking Media Group.
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Katherine Finnell is a site editor in the Networking media group, working on SearchUnifiedCommunications.
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Michael Finneran is the president of dBrn Associates, Inc., an advisory firm that specializes in wireless and mobility.
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Susan Fogarty is the editorial director for TechTarget's Enterprise Software and Services Group.
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Stephen Foskett is an active participant in the world of enterprise information technology.
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John Fruehe has spent more than 25 years in enterprise technology, deriving a broad knowledge base through his work at AMD, Compaq, Dell and others.
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Colleen has been a regular contributor to SearchMicroservices.com and SearchSoftwareQuality.com as well as other TechTarget websites for some time now. Before this, she was an editor on Software Magazine and ESD Magazine before that. Frye has a breadth of experience writing about topics that range from SOA governance to infrastructure, from open source architecture tools to application integration.
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Robin Gareiss is a unified communications analyst with extensive experience advising IT executives on their technology strategies.
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Steve Garson is president of SD-WAN Experts, where he helps companies design and install the SD-WAN option that best meets their business needs.
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In her role as executive managing editor, Kara coordinates and oversees the creation, editing and production of editorial projects for TechTarget's websites.
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Phillip Gervasi is a New York-based network engineer.
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Kate Gerwig is the editorial director for TechTarget's Networking and Security Media Group.
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Sandra Gittlen is editor at large for TechTarget's Networking and Security Media Group.
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Antone Gonsalves is news director in the Networking Media Group.
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Michaela Goss is the associate site editor for SearchNetworking at TechTarget. She joined the company in 2018 after graduating from UMass Lowell.
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Michael Gregg of The Solution Firm has extensive experience securing networks. You can confidentially ask him your corporate network security questions here.
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Sudhanshu has over 10 years of extensive networking experience and is CCIE and MCSE certified.
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Lynn Haber is the senior writer for SearchITChannel.com. Prior to joining TechTarget she worked for many years as an independent business and technology editor.
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IPv6 expert Silvia Hagen is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a senior consultant and analyst for many mid-size and large sized companies.
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David Harbeck, an editorial intern at TechTarget, is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, where he's majoring in journalism.
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Tanner covers product launches, updates and news for TechTarget's products content team.
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Jonathan Hassell is an author, consultant and speaker, and has a strong background in Windows Vista.
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Christopher Heun is a freelance writer and former editor at InformationWeek.
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Simens Global Director Data Center Solutions and Services Carrie Goetz can answer your fundamental unified communications and collaboration (UCC) questions.
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Darien Hirotsu is an SDN professional working for a vendor-neutral SDN services company aptly named: SDN Essentials. He holds three JNCIE certifications and is equally passionate about both the 'software' and 'networking' parts of SDN.
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Joerg Hirschmann is technical director of NCP Engineering GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Brenda L. Horrigan is a managing editor with extensive publishing and international affairs experience.
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Lindi Horton is senior product manager at ServiceMesh and has more than 10 years of networking experience.
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Lisa Huff is Principal Analyst at Discerning Analytics, LLC. Lisa is a Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP) and degreed engineer with almost 30 years of experience in the data center and electronics industries. In addition to being Principal Analyst at DA, she is Chief Technology Analyst for DataCenterStocks.com and Telecom Director for Bishop and Associates, Inc.
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David Hughes is founder of Silver Peak Systems and is responsible for the company's product and technical vision.
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Diana Hwang is a content development strategist for the Networking and Security Media Groups.
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Alissa Irei is a senior writer in TechTarget's Networking and Security Media Group. Previously, Irei was the features and e-zine editor of 'Network Evolution.' Irei was site editor for SearchSDN.
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David B. Jacobs of The Jacobs Group has more than 30 years of networking industry experience. He has managed leading-edge software development projects and consulted to Fortune 500 companies as well as software start-ups.
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Neils Johnson has more than 20 years of experience in the security industry, including over 16 years with Symantec, where he continues to present, teach and offer security expertise to sales, CXOs and partners focusing on security for their customers. He has provided thousands of hours of education and strategic support on security issues such as the potential benefits of managed security services.
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With more than a decade of professional experience in the IT industry, Don is the author of more than 30 IT books.
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Mike Jude is a program manager at Stratecast/Frost + Sullivan in charge of the consumer communication services practice.
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Glen Kemp is a professional services consultant in the United Kingdom. He designs and deploys network and application security tools, including access control and firewalls.
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Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. Kerravala provides a mix of tactical and long-term strategic advice to constituents, including end-user IT and network managers; vendors of IT hardware, software and services; and the IT investment community. Prior to ZK Research, Kerravala was a senior vice president and distinguished research fellow with Yankee Group.
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Charles Kolodgy is principal at Security Mindsets and has specialized in cybersecurity and unified threat management for more than 30 years.
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Paul Korzeniowski is a freelance writer and leading industry voice with more than 10,000 articles published.
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Garry Kranz is a senior news writer in the IT Infrastructure and Strategy Group.
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Mary Kyle is a freelance writer and project manager.
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George Lawton is a journalist based near San Francisco, Calif. Over the last 15 years he has written over 2,000 stories for publications about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health and other areas which interest him.
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As an industry analyst and consultant, Robin has covered all aspects of networking from both the business and technical side, and has published over 100 articles in leading trade journals.
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Irwin Lazar is the vice president and service director at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars and advises clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VoIP, unified communications, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration and advanced network services.
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Tsahi Levent-Levi is an analyst and consultant for WebRTC with 15 years of experience in the telecommunications, VoIP and 3G industries.
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Mark Lewis is the former editorial events director at SearchStorage.com.
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Kim Lindros is a full-time content developer who writes about security and technology topics.
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David Linthicum is a cloud expert who writes about cloud management, among other topics.
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Before joining TechTarget, Peter Loshin was a technical editor at Byte Magazine, a freelance writer and a former TCP/IP network engineer.
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Jeff Loughridge has been operating, maintaining, and designing IP/MPLS backbone networks since 1997 in both engineer and management roles. He currently runs his own consulting business, Brooks Consulting LLC, primarily providing services to Tier 1 ISPs and mobile operators. His specialties include optimizing IP networks for simplicity and reduced cost, TDM-to-Ethernet access migration, integrating IP and DWDM and MPLS/VPN design.
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Scott Lowe is a former CIO and frequent contributor to TechTarget, TechRepublic and other IT publications.
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James Maimonis is the Associate Editor for TechTarget's SearchSDN site. James comes from Hometown Publications, where he was the editor of the Westwood, Walpole and Dover-Sherborn Hometown Weekly newspapers. James has also been a freelance sports reporter in the area. He majored in journalism at Quinnipiac University.
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Howard Marks is Founder and Chief Scientist at DeepStorage.net.
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Dennis Martin is the founder and President of Demartek, a computer industry analyst organization with its own on-site test lab.
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Nick Martin is Editorial Director for the IT Infrastructure and Strategy Media Group.
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Craig J. Mathias is a principal analyst with Farpoint Group and specializes in mobile, wireless and unified communication (UC) technologies.
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Duncan McCay is the news writer for the Networking Media Group.
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Shamus is the senior analyst for the network management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). He has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry, primarily as a journalist covering the network infrastructure market.
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Dr. Jim Metzler is widely recognized as an authority on both network technology and its business applications.
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Chuck Moozakis is editor at large of the Networking and Security Media Group.
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Will Murrell is a network engineer with more than 15 years of experience, and a U.S. Army veteran. He has worked for both EMC and Cisco, and is currently a consultant in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area. He advises companies of all sizes on WAN, LAN, security, data center and SDN technologies.
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Thomas Nadeau is a distinguished engineer and Chief Architect of Open Source Software at Brocade.
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Tom Nolle is the president of CIMI Corporation, a strategic consulting firm specializing in telecommunications and data communications. Learn more about Tom Nolle.
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TechTarget senior products editor Amy Novotny produces in-depth articles and product reviews to help IT buyers make informed purchasing decisions.
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Luke O'Neill is executive editor of the Networking Media Group.
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Gary Orenstein is the chief marketing officer at MemSQL.
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Paul Parker-Johnson ('PJ') leads the cloud computing and data center virtualization practice at ACG Research. His areas of expertise include orchestration, federation and virtual computing.
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Tessa Parmenter is a former site editor for TechTarget websites SearchUnifiedCommunications.com and SearchEnterpriseWAN.com.
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Chris Partsenidis is the founder and editor in chief of www.Firewall.cx -- one of the few websites recommended by Cisco Systems.
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Sabrina covers product launches, updates and news for TechTarget's products content team.
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Ciprian Popoviciu is president, CEO and founder of Nephos6, a consultancy specializing in IPv6 and cloud computing.
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Brien Posey is a 15-time Microsoft MVP with two decades of IT experience. He has served as a lead network engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense and as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America.
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Packt Publishing aims to put software to work in new ways by providing IT professionals high-caliber learning materials and services.
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Michael Rasmussen is founder of Corporate Integrity LLC, a leader in education, research, analysis and advisory services monitoring the challenges and trends of the business roles accountable for corporate governance, enterprise risk management, and compliance (GRC). Michael is a sought after thought-leader, keynote speaker, author, collaborator and one of the industry's foremost authorities in understanding GRC.
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Ted Ritter is a senior account executive with Nemertes Research.
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Margaret Rouse writes for and manages WhatIs.com, TechTarget’s IT encyclopedia and learning center.
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A respected analyst, consultant and market researcher, Bill Rubino has worked in the telecom industry for more than 20 years. Previously, Rubino was a principal analyst at ACG Research and a senior product manager at Motorola, responsible for its wireless broadband product line. He has worked at The Connected Analysis Group, ACG Research, Motorola, Nortel, Sycamore Networks, Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications and Proteon. Rubino has been involved in different networking technologies, including wireless broadband, intelligent optical switches and core routing technologies. He has worked with the IETF and the IEEE has received two routing and switching patents.
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Zachary Schaffer, MBA, is the director of lab programs at Tolly Group.
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Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm StorageIO.
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Margie Semilof is the editorial director for TechTarget's Data Center and Virtualization media group.
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Dave Shackleford is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security, as well as a SANS analyst, instructor, and course author and GIAC technical director.
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Nirmal Sharma is a MCSEx3, MCITP and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services and Windows Networking.
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Bojan Simic is the founder and principal analyst of TRAC Research, a market research and analyst firm that specializes in IT performance management.
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Terry Slattery is principal architect at NetCraftsmen and has 20 years of network consulting and design work experience.
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Learn about Dr. Joel Snyder, an internationally recognized telecommunications and network security expert. Browse his archive of information security articles.
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Lauren Soucy is the Senior SEM Manager for TechTarget, Inc.
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Jan has covered the computer industry for more than 20 years, writing about everything from personal computers to operating systems to server virtualization to application development.
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Henry Svendblad has over 15 years of IT management experience in the software development, healthcare, professional services, education, and hospitality market verticals.
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Ha Ta is an editorial assistant for the Product Content team at TechTarget. She is a graduate student majoring in journalism at Northeastern University.
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Ed Tittel has worked for over 30 years as a software developer and development manager, a networking consultant, a trainer and course developer, and a technical evangelist for several companies.
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Jon Toigo was a veteran planner who assisted more than 100 companies in the development and testing of their continuity plans.
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Kevin Tolly is the founder of The Tolly Group, a leading provider of third-party validation and testing services for over two decades.
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John Tolly has more than 10 years of increasing responsibility and expertise in systems engineering, benchmarks, technical writing and technical support. He has experience with over 100 third-party custom testing projects in areas such as LAN switches, wireless, virtualization, storage, endpoint security, IPS, WAN optimization and security effectiveness.
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Rob Tomkins is a director for Ciena's corporate strategy office.
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Keith Townsend is the principal of The CTO Advisor LLC and founder of TheCTOAdvisor.com with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies.
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Katherine's primary areas of expertise include hosted, managed and professional IT services, as well as channel strategies. Her secondary areas include contact centers, UC trends, enterprise and SMB organizational best practices, and branch-office strategies.
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Brian Washburn is a telecom industry expert and Service Director at Current Analysis.
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Julian Weinberger is the director of systems engineering at NCP engineering.
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Russ White has more than 20 years' experience in designing, deploying, breaking and troubleshooting large-scale networks.
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