Curtis Preston Executive Editor at Techtarget

W. Curtis Preston, expert on the topic of backup and recovery, has joined TechTarget in the role of Executive Editor. He will continue to pursue his career as an independent consultant.

Preston will now be speaking at more TechTarget events, will be doing more podcasts/videocasts, and will be writing more for the SearchStorage.com network of websites. He will be presenting the Advanced Backup School and Deduplication seminars in 40 cities across North America and Europe.

He has been working
with backup & recovery systems since 1993 and a consultant in the space in 1996. He used
everything from dump, tar, & cpio to enterpise-level backup
software, and most tape drives from a 9-track reel to today’s terabyte
drives. He wrote three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery (this latter now out of print, having been replaced by Backup & Recovery).

He started his career in backups as ‘the backup guy’ for MBNA,
who was at that time the second largest credit card company. He managed
the backups as the company grew from 15 to 250 servers, and from two to five OS, running Informix, Oracle, Sybase and
other applications. He left MBNA to join Collective Technologies in 1996, a large
consulting company.

In February of 2001 he started his own company called The Storage Group,
specialized in backup and recovery system design,
implementation, and management. He was also the owner of Storage Designs, a consulting
company dedicated entirely to selecting, designing, implementing, and
auditing storage systems

For over four years, he was the VP of data protection at GlassHouse
Technologies, provider of professional services
in the infrastructure space.

He is also currently the webmaster of
www.backupcentral.com, where we found most of the information about him.