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 currently writes regularly for TechTarget SearchStorageChannel.