Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst
StorageIO Group

The StorageIO group is a technology analyst firm providing services to technology vendors, end users, press and media. StorageIO was founded by 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.

Mr. Schulz has a B.A. in computer science and Master of Science in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas.