Arun has held various executive level positions in marketing and engineering with companies like Sun Microsystems, IBM, Data General, Vixel and Andataco. He specializes in identifying technologies that have disruptive market potential and assisting companies with market positioning and strategy. He works with a number of VC's in assessing technologies (FC, iSCSI, InfiniBand and others) and companies. He speaks often at trade shows, customer and industry events and writes on technology trends and implications for IT in the mid to large enterprises. He is frequently quoted in the press as an industry expert in storage networking. Arun holds a Bachelor’s in Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and an MSEE and MBA from the University of New Hampshire.

Eric Burgener, Senior Analyst & Consultant

Eric brings a wealth of cross functional expertise that spans over 20 years in the high tech industry. He advises clients on data protection, archiving, data reduction technologies including deduplication and compression, DPM, and WAFS/WDS. Eric has particular experience with emerging technologies, having worked extensively with high availability computing, heterogeneous replication, storage management and virtualization, and continuous data technologies during the early formative years for these technologies from the vendor side. Eric joins The Taneja Group from Mendocino Software, where he was the Vice President of Marketing. Prior to Mendocino Software, Eric held senior management positions at Topio, Veritas Software, and Dell. He holds a BA degree from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst & Consultant

Jeff brings to Taneja Group more than 20 years of marketing and operational experience at a variety of infrastructure software, systems and semiconductor companies. His primary focus is on companies, trends and technologies in the server virtualization market. Jeff advises clients on issues ranging from product and competitive positioning to messaging and go-to-market initiatives, and helps companies to work through challenging product and technology transitions. Prior to joining Taneja Group, Jeff spent five years as Vice President of Marketing and later Vice President of Corporate Strategy at VMware, a leading provider of virtual infrastructure software acquired by EMC in 2004. Earlier in his career, Jeff held senior management positions at DG Systems, Dataquest, MIPS, and HP. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computational Sciences from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard.

Jeff Boles, Sr. Analyst / Director – Validation Services

Jeff joins Taneja Group from a broad background of hands-on operational IT management and infrastructure engineering, bringing to the group over 20 years of deep experience within the trenches of practicing IT. Jeff’s experience crosses the gamut of operational IT encompassing IT governance, operations management, project management, infrastructure architecture, SAN engineering, and process re-engineering in financial, healthcare, professional services, and government sectors. Following a position as a director of an infrastructure and application consulting practice at CIBER, Jeff most recently worked as an IT Manager with a special focus on storage management at the City of Mesa, near Phoenix, Arizona. Today, Jeff performs analyst work for the Taneja Group and coordinates the Technology Validation Service, designed to objectively evaluate storage solutions in the real world.

Christine Taylor, Research Analyst

Christine brings over a decade of communications expertise to the Taneja Group. She has researched and written extensively on data storage technology including storage networking, messaging, and storage security. She specializes in taking complex technical concepts and expresses them in simple terms so they are understandable by both technical and non-technical clientele. Christine previously served as a systems administrator for Avery Dennison’s Scientific Computing division. From there she entered technical journalism as a senior editor for Computer Technology Review and served as editor-in-chief of Storage Management Solutions. As a marketing communications consultant, she worked with companies like EMC, Sybase and CommVault. Christine received her BA from Westmont College and her MA from Fuller.

Tara Hassard, Research Assistant & Customer Relations Manager

Tara is a Research Assistant and Customer Relations Manager. She is the primary interface to clients and handles all scheduling for analysts. She also assists analysts with research projects. Tara has a BS in Business Administration from Mt. Ida College in Newton, MA. and has been with Taneja Group since early 2003.

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