Biographical Sketch: Jon Toigo is a 38-year veteran of IT who has worked both as an operative within corporate information systems departments and as a senior consultant with two international systems integrators. He has developed business continuity plans for more than 100 companies, authored 17 books -- including four on disaster recovery planning -- written thousands of articles and columns for the computer trade press, and spoken at countless industry events, trade shows and workshops. Throughout this vast array of experience, Jon has served as a trusted, objective source of information for those IT professionals who create, store, manage and administer data and storage assets. Jon has furthered this mission as both Managing Principal Partner for Toigo Partners International -- a consultancy specializing in IT consumer advocacy, data management and storage technology -- and chairman/co-founder of the Data Management Institute, which, over the last 20 years, has trained and certified nearly 100,000 data management professionals worldwide.