Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at DeepStorage, LLC an independent test lab and analyst firm specializing on data storage, virtualization and data center networking. Before founding DeepStorage Howard was a New York based consultant for over 30 years helping organizations including BBDO, SUNY Purchase and the Foxwoods Resort Casino solve their IT infrastructure problems.

An entertaining and energetic speaker Howard speaks regularly at industry events including Storage Decisions, Interop, SNW and Microsoft’s TechEd. He has written three books and hundreds of articles on networking and storage technologies. He currently writes a column/blog at NetworkComputing.com.