About the Author

Tom Petrocelli is president of Technology Alignment Partners, Inc., where he is also chief analyst. He is a veteran of more than twenty years in the computer technology marketplace and has worked in IT, marketing, product management, and business development. For the past eight years Tom has been involved in the data storage industry, where he has become an expert in data protection issues, especially data movement and security. He has written articles for major data storage industry magazines and is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences and events, such as Storage Networking World.