Philippe Nicolas

Navigating between Paris, France and San Francisco, CA, Philippe Nicolas observes the storage industry for 30 years. Recognized for his market expertise, he belongs to the top analysts in data management and storage. He is the founder and analyst at Coldago Research.

 

He’s often invited to provide advices to IT enterprises and investors and produces events such The IT Press Tour, The Innov Tour and others.

 

He has previously collaborated to the development of several companies at key moment in their growth, for instance at Scality, Brocade, Symantec, Veritas Software, SGI and Compaq.

 

He also drove the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) in France for almost 10 years and was European board director 4 years. He’s the author of 4 reference tutorials for the SNIA.

 

He writes frequently for StorageNewsletter, Le Monde Informatique and in his 2 famous dedicated blogs File Storage and Continuous Data Protection launched in 2005 with more then 2000 posts as of today.

 

He’s reachable via his twitter handle @CDP_FST.

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