Focus on…Systems, Software, and Storage
Focus offers a team of industry veterans combining decades of expertise in systems, software, storage, management and services for the enterprise, SMB
and public sector markets. Founder, President and Chief Analyst Barb Goldworm and her team bring extensive experience in technical, marketing, business and executive roles
with companies including IBM, StorageTek, Sun, Novell, Enterprise
Management Associates, and numerous startups.
In addition to their experience in market research and analysis, Focus analysts have written extensively for leading industry publications including
NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, TechTarget, SNW Online, InfoStor and others; have authored and edited books, and are frequent speakers and educators at industry events. The Focus team brings a comprehensive perspective to both vendor and user clients.
Our Team Members
Founder, President and Chief Analyst
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management
Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired
Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for
TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization.
Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World
and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white
papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and
enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization.
In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com.
Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Research Director
Anne Skamarock has over 25 years of technical, marketing, research,
analysis and consulting experience, as an end-user/administrator, vendor
and industry analyst. She has held various technical and marketing
positions with SRI, International; Sun Microsystems; StorageTek; EMA; and
several successful startups. For the past 10 years, she has focused on
systems, storage, networked storage and storage management solutions, and
on the intersection points between systems, software and storage. Anne’s
expertise encompasses systems, storage and storage networking
architectures; virtualization technologies; enterprise management
software; data protection solutions; and tape and disk storage solutions.
A frequent speaker at conferences, she chaired Interop's Network Storage
Track for several years. She was a co-creator as well as Program Manager
for the ROI Planning Lab at the 2007
Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization, and also ran key
tutorial sessions on blades and virtualization. In addition to a regular Network World column on
storage, Anne also co-authored the book "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as
"Storage
Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Anne is currently writing regular
tips/articles for TechTarget SearchStorageChannel.
Analyst/Consultant
Andrew Kutz has over 10 years of professional experience in computer systems design, security, programming, implementation, and management. Andrew is s a site expert on SearchServerVirtualization.com, and has written numerous articles and whitepapers, and given many webcasts and presentations on building virtual infrastructures using VMware and other enterprise virtualization solutions such as XenSource XenServer. Andrew also specializes in Microsoft technologies such as Windows XP/Vista/2003, IIS 6, Exchange 2003, and .NET 1.1/2.0. He is author of the widely used security project, "Sudo for Windows." Andrew has also designed solutions using OS X and various Linux distributions. Andrew served as a technical editor and contributor for the book "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs." In addition to working with Focus, Andrew currently works for the University of Texas at Austin as an Operating Systems Specialist in charge of the campus' central virtual infrastructure, and other servers, Windows and Linux. Andrew is also the principal member of l o s t c r e a t i o n s, a development and consulting firm that aims to offer high-end, custom solutions using Microsoft and VMware based technologies.
Affiliate Consultant
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years experience in storage and networking, including technical positions, management, education, architecture, implementation, and operations. His technical focus crosses storage network architectures including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, SATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet and more. Howard served as technical editor of Building Storage Networks (Marc Farley) and Resilient Storage Networks (Greg Shultz) and Storage Series editor for Digital Press and was a contributor to "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs." He is also a frequent speaker at Interop and SNW. Howard is very active on the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Education Committee, where he helped develop the SNIA Certification Program. Howard is the founder and principal of Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education Provider Company offering instructor-led training and course development.
Focus Company Values:
- We are responsive to our customers. We add value to all of our engagements by working collaboratively. We deliver outstanding, consistent, reliable service,
with a strong commitment to integrity.
- We are committed to making every customer a reference customer through exceptional relationship development, value added service, on time and in-budget deliverables and partnership building attitudes.
- We respect and appreciate all of our customers and prospective customers, all of the time.
- We strive to maintain a financially strong business, earning reasonable profits, ensuring we can provide continuous, high quality service for our customers.
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