About Datanami
Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. The portal sheds light on all cutting edge technologies including networking, storage and applications, and their effect upon business, industry, government, and research. The publication examines the avalanche of unprecedented amounts of data and the impact the high-end data explosion is having across the IT, enterprise, and commercial markets.
About Tabor Communications, Inc.
Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international media, advertising, and communications company that provides solutions, news and information to the High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud, and digital manufacturing communities. Publisher of Datanami, HPCwire, and HPC in the Cloud, other Tabor Communications companies include Tabor Advertising and Tabor Publications & Events.
About Tabor Publications
Tabor Publications is publisher of a complete data intensive computing portfolio that includes HPCwire, HPC in the Cloud, Digital Manufacturing Report and Datanami. As the company's flagship online publication, HPCwire is recognized as the global leader in chronicling the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry, news, trends and technologies. HPC in the Cloud is the only portal dedicated to covering data and computationally intensive cloud computing in science, industry and the data center. Introduced in partnership with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), Digital Manufacturing Report covers the largest HPC vertical market, delivering news and information about the fast moving world of digital manufacturing, modeling and simulation. Datanami sheds light on cutting edge, big data IT and its profound impact upon business, industry, government, and research.
The Datanami Team
Editorial:
Nicole Hemsoth, Editor, Datanami
Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of Datanami, brings insights from the world of high performance computing as well as cloud infrastructure to the new challenges created by big data. As a contributing editor for HPCwire and former editor of HPC in the Cloud, Nicole blends news and perspectives from across the academic and enterprise spheres on the larger canvas of technologies and trends that are reshaping computing across all sectors.
Robert Gelber, Assistant Editor, Datanami
In his role as the Assistant Editor for HPCwire and Datanami, Robert provides the context for new and current developments taking place in the world of high performance computing and data analytics. Before joining Tabor Communications, Robert worked at various forms of technical support in the communications industry, most notably as a network broadcast engineer for a cluster of collegiate sports radio broadcasts, and as an audio engineer. A graduate of State University of New York College at Purchase, Robert is pleased to be supporting Tabor Communications in delivering new insights into today's HPC and big data industries to readers.
Contributing Editors:
Michael Feldman
Michael is the senior editorial director for Tabor Communications and the managing editor of HPCwire. Before joining Tabor Communications in 2005, Michael was employed as a software engineer, where he worked on real-time application development tools, system software, and board support packages for the U.S. Department of Defense. With over 30 years combined experience in HPC and software, Michael is highly regarded for the unique perspective he brings to HPCwire, resulting in a loyal following of thousands of readers each week.
Chris Willard, Ph.D.
Chris Willard is co-founder and chief research officer of Intersect360 Research. Willard leads the demand-side and supplier-driven data analysis practice for Intersect360 Research's forward-looking market intelligence subscription service. A 25-year veteran of the HPC industry, Willard's career spans three decades with Intersect360 Research, Tabor Research as a senior research consultant, IDC as a HPC research vice president, and Data Quest as a senior analyst. Prior to analyst, Willard worked with Cray Research as a software engineer, and at GE/NASA Ames as a systems engineer and lead user services consultant.
Steve Conway
Steve Conway is research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group and the group's lead analyst for data-intensive computing. Before joining IDC, he was vice president of corporate communications and investor relations for Cray Inc. and CompuServe. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow, he had a 12-year career in university teaching and administration at Boston University and Harvard University.
Peter ffoulkes
Peter ffoulkes is the research director, servers and virtualization for TheInfoPro - a Division of the 451 Group. He has over twenty years of diversified international experience in enterprise and high performance computing including positions in management, business and product strategy development, product marketing, sales and training with leading international information technology companies. His most recent positions were vice president of marketing at Adaptive Computing, director of outbound marketing at ClearSpeed Technology, director of marketing for high performance computing at Sun Microsystems, and director and principal analyst for the Worldwide Workstation Computing program at Gartner Dataquest.
Publishing:
Tom Tabor
Tom Tabor has over 33 years experience in business-to-business publishing, including 23 years focused on High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud computing and more recently, advanced digital manufacturing technologies.
As an internationally recognized pioneer in the electronic publishing industry, Tom is credited with introducing the first online publication in the early nineties, HPCwire. Over the years, he has served as publisher for the award-winning Supercompting Review magazine, WEBster, HPCwire, On-Demand Enterprise, GRIDtoday, High Performance Computing - Contributions to Society, and The Emergence of Grid and Service-Oriented IT, as well as producing the GT04 tradeshow and conference, and a series of Grid VIP Summits worldwide.
TCI is a leading international media, advertising, and communications company that provides solutions, news and information to the HPC, cloud, and digital manufacturing communities.
Jeff Hyman, President and Group Publisher
Jeff brings 30 years of sales and management experience, and is responsible for worldwide sales for the company's broad line of products. Jeff was Vice President of Sales for IDG's Bio-ITWorld magazine, whose focus is on HPC used specifically within the life sciences to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development. Prior to IDG, Jeff held sales positions at CMP's InformationWeek and CMGI's Engage Technologies. Jeff holds a BS from Babson College and an MBA from Suffolk University. He resides in Methuen, MA with his son Jack (a freshman at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California) and his pure bred Bichon Frise "The Maya Bean".
Isaac Lopez, Associate Publisher
Isaac is focused on business development and global sales strategies, increasing the array of product and service offerings to customers and expanding the Datanami's subscriber base globally. With a rich history in publishing and marketing, Lopez' career spans over 11 years in the high technology and publishing industries. Isaac graduated in 1999 from the University of Idaho and holds a Bachelor Degree of Arts in Public Relations.
Marketing:
Caroline Connor, Director of Marketing
Caroline Connor is a technology marketing professional with over 12 years of global experience in marketing communications, product marketing, and channel marketing roles across software and hardware environments for both Fortune 500 and start-up companies. Caroline's background in the technology marketing industry began while working for Sun Microsystems and later, for SGI. Caroline has since expanded her marketing expertise working with a broad range of technology solutions providers including Bell Microproducts, ClearSpeed Technology, Longstone Consulting, Oracle, and most recently, for Tabor Communications Inc.
Matt Walters, Sr. Marketing Operations Manager
Matt joined Tabor Communications Inc. in April of 2010, where he institutes creative e-marketing strategies for client/partner relationships through web, print and multimedia design and production. As Sr. Marketing Operations Manager, Matt handles production and delivery of both internal and external advertising campaign elements including audio, video, email, and graphic design. Matt resides in Vancouver, Washington with his son Jaeden.
Sales and Advertising:
Mitchell D. Becker, Director of Sales
Mitch Becker is a Director of Sales at Tabor Communications. He brings with him nineteen years of experience in marketing management, developing marketing strategies, organizing marketing events, promotions, and Public Relations. He constantly maintains strategic relationships with Fortune 500 technology leaders and provides lead generation and ROI reports on all marketing activities. In the past Mitch's roles included such positions as Director of Marketing, where he managed the inception and marketing promotion activities, advertising, web content, collateral, tradeshows, seminars, e-mail and direct mail campaigns and all lead generation activities and PR. Mitch received his Bachelor of Science and Associates of Applied Science Degrees at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, IL.
Ana Vasquez, Sales Operations Manager
Ana Vasquez is the Sales Operations Manager for all Tabor Communications' publications. With over 10 years of administrative experience she has been instrumental in helping TCI achieve its yearly revenue goals. Her current role also enables her to work hand in hand with TCI's clients in executing their advertising strategies. Ana received an Associate's degree from Southwestern College.
Web Operations:
John Shandor, Webmaster
John is the Webmaster for Datanami and Tabor Communications, a position he has held since 1997, contributing more than 25 years' experience in web design and digital media. John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University, and resides in Summerton, South Carolina.