Storage Analyst Dan Tanner's ProgresSmart Gains Seventeen Clients in First Four Months
/24-7PressRelease.com/ - December 29, 2004 - Westboro MA - Dan Tanner opened his company, ProgresSmart [url=http://www.progressmart.com] on August 13. By the Christmas holiday, in only four months, ProgresSmart had a total of seventeen new client companies, plus repeat assignments for some of its first client companies.
"My clients find my papers remarkably effective at communicating their value proposition to prospective buyers," said Tanner. "Best of all, I do a better job at a small fraction of what the boutique consultant/analyst firms charge."
To date, ProgresSmart clients are (in alphabetical order) Alacritech, Atempo, Avamar, Cloverleaf Communications, DataCenter Technologies, DataMills, Digi-Data, the ILM Summit 2005, Iron Mountain, iStor Networks, the Nirvana division of General Atomics, Promise Technology, Revivio, SANRAD, TeraCloud, Texas Memory Systems, and TriAxis. Projects for these diverse clients have included:
• Creating white papers and magazine articles for Web and print publication,
• Making and delivering presentations for customers, prospects and user groups,
• Meeting with and advising customers and prospects in pre- and post-sales settings,
• Helping choose vendor partners,
• Training,
• Business technology planning and,
• Underwriting related to the Storage Networking World Spring 2005 ILM Track Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) tutorial presentation on Tiered Storage.
Additionally, Tanner's papers and presentations now appear on the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) and the Storage Networking User Group (SNUG) Web sites. Tanner has given presentations to those groups' New England Chapters, and Tanner is an expert available through http://www.asnp.org. Tanner will also be a presenter and panelist at the ILM Summit 2005, and contributes to SNIA technical working groups on Information Lifecycle Management, Data Protection, and Content Addressable Storage. His papers are also slated to appear in the ILM Newsletter and the Disaster Recovery Journal, and he is preparing the SNIA tutorial on Tiered Storage to be presented in the ILM Track of Storage Networking World 2005 in Phoenix AZ in April.
About ProgresSmart
ProgresSmart helps companies evaluate the entire panoply of networked storage options and solutions: Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Content Addressable Storage (CAS). ProgresSmart expertise spans the areas of backup, archiving, recovery, replication, compliance, data protection, disaster protection, business continuance solutions, secure storage (to become known as "Information Assurance, or IA), and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), plus storage networking choices: Fibre Channel (FC) and Ethernet/IP-based iSCSI.
ProgresSmart can help businesses choose optimal storage solutions that will endure. ProgresSmart helps storage market vendors determine strategies and move product lines by offering clearly enunciated value propositions.
Visit [url=http://www.progressmart.com] and access free white papers through the "Portfolio" page. If your company can use ProgresSmart's counsel, contact Dan Tanner at 1-508-366-7980 or dan@progressmart.com.
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