About the Technical Editors

Philip Lowden currently holds the position of customer support engineer for Storage Area Networking at Cisco Systems, Inc. Before this role, he worked four years at Cisco and six years at Electronic Data Systems as a senior UNIX systems administrator, performing production systems architecture and support duties on a variety of host and storage platforms. He was also an officer in the U.S. Air Force for six years. He holds a master of science degree in computer engineering from North Carolina State University, a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Nebraska, and a bachelor of arts degree in English from Saint Meinrad College. He is a SNIA-certified FC-SAN Specialist. He is married and has two children.

John Nelsen is a member of the Cisco Infrastructure Architecture Team and a project manager within the Cisco Systems IT Enterprise Storage Solutions Group. Before joining Cisco, he worked for 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He has 20 years of experience in various IT architecture and operational roles. When he joined Cisco in 2000, his primary responsibilities included defining and selling a strategy to reduce storage TCO that was founded on the concept of a consolidated storage utility. Since gaining acceptance for the strategy in 2001, Nelsen has focused on defining the hardware and software technologies along with the business processes and projects required to build and implement a storage architecture that can support the storage utility. He received a bachelor of science degree from Allegheny College in 1984 and a master of science degree from North Carolina State University in 1988.

Guy Shimabuku is a senior engineer with the Architecture and Enterprise Services Group for Verizon. His primary function is evaluating storage and networking elements for Verizon's next-generation data centers. In addition, he manages a research laboratory that encompasses 125 TB of storage and 500 Fibre Channel ports serving 600 development servers. He is a graduate of California Polytechnic University School of Engineering and has been in the field of networking and data storage for 15 years. He has been published and interviewed in trade magazines for his work on testing and implementing broadband networks.