Mari Frank Interviews TomCoughlin, Technology Expert and Jay Kramer VP Marketing IStore

om is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com Jay Kramer Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives. Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference. Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com