Gary is the Data Center Services Practice Director and the National Operations Manager in North America. He has over 20 years technical and consulting experience in IT infrastructure in the Midrange and Mainframe areas. Gary’s background encompasses all facets of enterprise storage, server and DR spectrum. As a recognized expert and thought leader in the IT field, Gary has been extensively quoted and published in IT publications and is a popular speaker at IT conferences and seminars, where his opinions and expertise are highly valued. Areas of expertise include high availability design and planning, disaster recovery, data replication technologies, enterprise backup and recovery systems, data centre relocation, cost reduction programmes, and life cycle and data management.