About Mesabi Group

The role of the Mesabi Group is to help organizations make sense of two storage revolutions and take advantage of them to ensure the best and most efficient use of information for business value.

The Mesabi Group particularly focuses on two "revolutions" that are dramatically changing the ability of storage and information managers to zero in on key data in near-real-time:

• The separation of storage (e.g., via storage area networks) as an equal partner with processing and networking in delivering business value
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), the proactive, global management of data from arrival to archiving

Contact:

David G. Hill, Owner and Principle, Mesabi Group
Title: Storage Research and Management
Phone: (781) 326-0038
davidhill@mesabigroup.com

About David G. Hill:

Mesabi Group is managed by David G. Hill. Previously, as the Vice President of Storage Research and founder of the Storage & Storage Management practice at Aberdeen Group, David Hill emphasized how leading enterprises could leverage their enterprise-wide storage investment to derive additional business value that ranges from TCO/ROI advantages to competitive advantage. Before Aberdeen, he spent many years at Data General where, among other activities, he directed Data General's internal IT data centers as well as managed the introduction of new analytical tools and business systems.

While at EMC, he carried out strategic marketing, competitive analysis, sales force planning, and market forecasting. He has an advanced degree from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hill is frequently quoted in such publications as Business Week, Computerworld, E Commerce Times, InfoStor, Network World, and Storage Networking World Online. In 2004, DsStar named him one of the leading storage analysts.