Dave Russell VP Distinguished Analyst Tucson, AZ USA Years of Experience 8 years at Gartner 24 years IT industry Areas of Coverage Servers & Storage View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Dave Russell is a research vice president at Gartner, where his research focus is on storage, with an emphasis on backup/recovery (including data de-duplication, virtual tape libraries [VTLs] and continuous data protection [CDP]), snapshot & replication and storage management. Mr. Russell covers both distributed and mainframe storage solutions. In addition, he covers the overall storage strategies and portfolios of many of the industry's top providers. Previous Experience Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Russell spent 15 years at IBM in storage product development as a software engineer in mainframe storage and as a manager of product development, architecture and strategy teams for distributed systems storage solutions. 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 LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) Market Share Analysis: Storage Management Software, Worldwide, 2012 16-May-2013 Jie Zhang, Dave Russell, Alan Dayley Storage Appliances May Transcend IT Silos and Incur High Cost at Scale 02-May-2013 Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2013 22-Apr-2013 Dave Russell, Arun Chandrasekaran, Gene Ruth, Joseph Unsworth, John Monroe, Pushan Rinnen, Alan Dayley, Stanley Zaffos Vendor Rating: NetApp 25-Mar-2013 Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Roger W. Cox, Tiffani Bova, Andrew Neff Vendor Rating: EMC 20-Mar-2013 Roger W. Cox, Stanley Zaffos, Christine Tenneson, Tiffani Bova, Dave Russell, Andrew Neff, Kenneth Chin, Valdis Filks, Donald Feinberg, Neil MacDonald, French Caldwell