Jon Toigo

Jon Toigo is CEO of Toigo Partners International, a user-facing technology analysis firm that is part technology consumer advocacy and part vendor watchdog. With over 30 years of IT experience, both as an internal business IT manager and as a consultant and service provider, Toigo brings a perspective on business technology that is sometimes contrarian but always fact-based. He has written 15 books on enterprise computing strategies and two thousand articles and columns in the computer trade...See more

Jon Toigo is CEO of Toigo Partners International, a user-facing technology analysis firm that is part technology consumer advocacy and part vendor watchdog. With over 30 years of IT experience, both as an internal business IT manager and as a consultant and service provider, Toigo brings a perspective on business technology that is sometimes contrarian but always fact-based. He has written 15 books on enterprise computing strategies and two thousand articles and columns in the computer trade press, includingComputerworld, Network Computing, Scientific American, Washington Technology, Enterprise Systems, ESJ.com, SearchStorage, SNWOnline, Storage Magazine, Storage NL, Data Storage Connection, z/Journal, and Mainframe Executive. He operates a highly trafficked blog at DrunkenData.com. Since 1992, he has chaired the Data Management Institute and delivered training courses in data management, storage technology, disaster recovery planning and data security worldwide to more than 80,000 trainees. He is a much sought-after speaker whose mix of practical knowledge and edgy humor have earned him a reputation as an iconoclast of bleeding edge technologies. He has keynoted at Storage Networking World, Networld Interop, COMDEX, Storage World, IPExpo, Storage Networking World, Storage Decisions, ASCDI, and Storage Expo events, and has delivered presentations at international conferences staged by leading vendors, including IBM, HP, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Quantum, DataCore Software, and numerous systems integrators. See less