Marc Farley

For more than ten years, author and consultant Marc Farley has specialized in storage networking technology. His knowledge of storage is captured in his reference book, Building Storage Networks, which provides a vendor-independent overview of various storage topics — including SAN, NAS, RAID, Fibre Channel, caching — as well as an in-depth discussion of the issues system architects must address to create an effective modern storage network.

Mr. Farley is a career storage networking professional, and has worked in that capacity in both startups and large corporations, including IBM, Hitachi, Crossroads, Palindrome, ConvergeNet, and SanCastle. He is now an independent consultant to the storage network industry, providing product and corporate strategy, marketing analysis, education and writing services.