Analyst Profile
Dave Russell
Dave Russell
Research VP
Tucson, AZ USA
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Years of Experience
5 years at Gartner
20 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Servers & Storage

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Roles and Responsibilities
Dave Russell is a vice president at Gartner Research. His research specialty is storage management software with a focus on data recovery, including data deduplication, virtual tape libraries (VTL), continuous data protection (CDP) and storage resource management (SRM). Mr. Russell also covers information life cycle management (ILM). In addition, he covers both distributed and mainframe storage management software.
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Russell spent five years as a developer/programmer for mainframe data recovery (DFSMSdss); five years as a development manager for an open systems data recovery product (TSM); three years as the manager of Tivoli Storage's Architecture department for the IBM Tivoli Portfolio (data recovery, SRM, SAN management); and two years as a technical strategist for the IBM TotalStorage Open Software portfolio. For the last few years, he has traveled the world, meeting with customers and business partners, and speaking at storage conferences and to the press. He was responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy for the data recovery, SRM and SAN management offerings at IBM.
Professional Background
IBM, Program Director for Technical Strategy, 15 years
Education
M.S., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
B.S., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona




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Poll Shows Disk-Based Backup on the Rise, With a Few Surprises 04-Feb-2010 Dave Russell
Survey Analysis: 2009 Data Center Conference, Storage Software Needs Driven by Deduplication, Disk-Based Backup and Archiving Policies 03-Feb-2010 Alan Dayley, Dave Russell, Sheila Childs
SWOT: HP, Storage Solutions, Worldwide 25-Nov-2009 Pushan Rinnen, Dave Russell, Roger W. Cox, Adam W. Couture, Tiffani Bova, Robert E. Passmore
SWOT: IBM System Storage and Tivoli Storage Management Business Segment, Worldwide 09-Nov-2009 Roger W. Cox, Dave Russell, Tiffani Bova, James A. Browning, Stanley Zaffos
User Survey Analysis: Storage Software Needs Driven by Deduplication, Disk-Based Backup and Retention Policies 04-Nov-2009 Alan Dayley, Dave Russell