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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.
FOCUS brings a unique blend of technical depth and market savvy, with experience in systems and software architecture and development, product management, product marketing, sales, market research and analysis, project management and education/training. FOCUS brings a comprehensive yet focused view of how to meet demanding business needs in a world of ever changing technology, while keeping an eye on ROI, TCO and bottom line value.
Anne Skamarock, Barb’s co-author, has spent nearly 30 years in high-tech fields in various positions, including end user, systems administrator, scientific programmer, NFS software engineer, backup and recovery software engineer, technical sales, marketing, and product management, and industry analyst with SRI International, Sun Microsystems, Solbourne Computer, StorageTek, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). In addition to working with FOCUS, Anne is also founder and president of Skamarock Consulting, a technology, marketing, and research firm focused on systems and storage.
Barb has extensive experience in market research, competitive analysis, partner programs, product management, product marketing, and sales, holding numerous marketing roles throughout her career up through VP of Marketing. In addition to research, analysis and consulting for the vendor and user communities, Barb is an advisor and consultant to the investment community.
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.