The Server and StorageIO group (StorageIO) is a technology analyst and consulting firm providing services to technology vendors, end users, press and media. Founded by server and storage IT veteran, author and industry analyst Greg Schulz. StorageIO services include content generation (white paper, articles, videos), custom research, speaking engagements (keynotes, seminars, web casts, customer events) along with advisory (strategy, product and technology positioning) among other services.

StorageIO is focused on IT data infrastructure technologies and techniques including server, virtualizaiton, cloud, performance and capacity planning, data proteciton (BC/DR, Backup), storage and storage management, networking and related technology topics. Originally founded with a focus around storage and I/O networking, the expanded name of Server and StorageIO reflects our experience and coverage as customer, vendor, analyst and consultant involving servers, storage, I/O networking, hardware, software along with services spanning three decades. Learn more about services, areas of coverage and skillsets here.

StorageIO exist to help vendors get their product info and story to applicable customers and partners while helping IT customers identify their needs and matching those to applicable solutions. Leveraging the experiences of an IT customer, vendor, author and storage industry analyst, StorageIO is uniquely prepared to help enable you to meet your specific business needs and objectives.

StorageIO provides analyst and consulting services to technology manufactures and resellers, IT customers and users as well as the press and media. A sampling of services provided include content and collateral development (white papers and articles), speaking engagements (web cast and in-person) and consulting services.

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The Server and StorageIO group is a technology analyst advisory and consulting firm providing services to technology vendors, end users, press and media. StorageIO was founded by IT and storage veteran, author and industry analyst Greg Schulz. Mr. Schulz has worked with Unix, Windows, Mainframe, OpenVMS and other hardware, network, and software environments. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, server and storage planner, capacity planner, systems engineer, technologist and storage industry analyst.

Firms that Greg has worked for include Evaluator Group (analyst firm), CNT & INRANGE (SAN, WAN, MAN vendor), MTI (Storage and networking hardware and software vendor), Burlington Northern Railroad (Server and Storage management, Performance and Capacity Planning, DR planning), DCA Benefits (Systems management) and Cooperative Power Utility (Systems analysis and software development) among others.

Mr. Schulz has been involved with various storage related organizations including the computer measurement group (CMG), storage networking industry association (SNIA), RAID advisory board (RAB), and vendor specific user groups. In addition to being the author of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) and "Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier), Greg has contributed material to other projects including "The Resilient Enterprise" and "Virtual Storage Redefined" (both Veritas Press).

A well regarded and popular speaker throughout the world, Mr. Schulz regularly presents at events including conferences and on-line webcasts. Other published material by Mr. Schulz includes over a thousand white papers, articles, webcasts, presentations, podcasts, briefs and tips e-discovery, power and cooling, energy efficiency, green IT and data storage, data classification, covering storage, clustering, high availability, SAN & NAS, Metro and WAN storage networking, VTL, I/O, capacity planning, ILM, storage management, virtualization, data protection, security, database and related topics.

Refer to the StorageIO portfolio page  to see events, on-demand webinars, tips and articles among other content that has appeared in different venues around the world here and here.

Mr. Schulz has a B.A. in computer science and Master of Science in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas. Click Here to learn more about the diverse skill-set and expertise of StorageIO.

Contact StorageIO at: info@storageio.com or 651-275-1563 to arrange a briefing  or to learn about our services and how StorageIO can be of assistance to your storage and data infrastructure needs.