Data Storage Expert Witnesses
What is a data storage expert witness?
Data storage expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience and areas of expertise in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, and/or software engineering – depending on the specific technology and product involved the case. The expert witness may be a member of an industry organization such as the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), and/or IEEE. A data storage expert witness should have a deep understanding of the technology, as well as the data storage market and competitive landscape.
What types of cases require a data storage expert witness?
A data storage expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters, such as a patent litigation or a trade secret dispute. A digital forensics expert can determine if there is evidence to reveal intellectual property infringement or theft.
Data storage expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services is often called on by law firm clients to support matters involving data storage technology. Example matters have encompassed:
- cell phone data recovery,
- computer security,
- data center e-discovery,
- medical devices,
- cloud computing,
- hard disk reverse engineering, and
- mobile device source code.
What litigation support work might a data storage expert witness be expected to perform?
In a litigation support scenario, a technical expert can expect expert testimony in the courtroom, as well as other expert witness services such as depositions, a prior art search, expert report preparation, computer forensics, claim charts, and related consulting activities. In addition, clients may seek a storage device expert for pre-litigation consulting work. An expert witness should also possess the ability to explain technology and electronic evidence to lay people, including a judge and jury.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a data storage expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Data Storage Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Data Storage experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Data Storage landscape.
Expert Witness #238295
This expert has many years of photonics experience. This expert's academic focus was on modern optics, electromagnetic theory, communications theory, advanced mathematics, and the chemistry/physics of optical materials. This expert has a lifetime of research and development in the highly specialized area of optical data storage, processing/computing, and communications. This expert is a well-known expert in the field of optical data storage, holography, recording media, and optical disc replication processes and technology, and large high-resolution information displays. This expert's main areas of interest are photonics (components, imaging arrays, LEDs, and solar energy), materials physics, chemistry and processes, nanotechnology, control and positioning of light beams, MEMS and MOEMS and their integration into fully functional information processing systems, lasers, and flat panel displays (FPDs).
Much of this expert's early work was for government agencies. The major goal of this work was to use photonics technology for the rapid acquisition, processing, storage and communication of data vital to national defense and space flight. This expert shifted the main research focus to (1) consumer electronics applications of photonics (CD, DVD, flat panel displays, digital cameras, LEDs and HDTV and 3D TV); (2) replication of CD and DVD media (technology, materials, processes and systems); (3) digital image processing and capture (digital cameras), and (4) the impact of MEMS/Nanotech on data storage, processing, and communication design and performance.
This expert also has significant engineering, expert witness, product and business development, and sales & marketing management experience.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #251608
This expert received a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science, an M.A. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. This expert served as Chair of the Computer Science Department and is currently Full Professor of Computer Science and member of the university's Center for Complex Systems. This expert's research interests include computer algorithms, communications and internet related computing, data compression and archiving (including text, images, video, and multi-media), storage and processing of large data sets, image retrieval, object recognition, text, image, and video processing, parallel computing, machine learning. This expert has obtained U.S. patents, does computing technology consulting, and is widely published in the areas of data compression and content recognition. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having served as a testifier (at deposition and/or trial) in several high-profile patent matters.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #257007
This expert holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and serves as Associate Professor of Materials Science and Electrical Engineering. This expert utilizes analytical and high-resolution electron microscopy for materials characterization in order to develop structure-property relationships. Areas of interest include magnetic thin films for data storage and advanced structural materials. Further increases in the areal density for magnetic data storage will require new materials that can decrease the size of individual magnetic grains in the thin films. To develop the processing methods for growing these nanometer size features demands materials characterization with atomic resolution.
The majority of this expert's work has concentrated on magnetic materials. During this expert's post-doctoral studies, this expert performed research on Fe-Si alloys for soft-magnetic applications. This expert worked on permanent magnet materials such as Pt-Co-B alloys and this expert was involved in the development of magnetic-recording media for data storage for many years. This expert has over 30 publications concerning a number of different magnetic materials including CoPtCr longitudinal media, soft magnetic underlayers such FeTaN/IrMn and NiFe/IrMn multilayers, FePt/MgO multilayers, and FePt nanoparticles. This expert was a member of the International Magnetic Data Storage Consortium and has had research funding from many of the major hard drive manufactures.
Materials characterization using electron microscopy is the main thrust of this expert's research. This expert has excellent infrastructure for materials characterization that includes a scanning electron microscope with an energy dispersive spectrometer.
This expert has many years of experience as an expert for litigation primarily in failure analysis cases. This expert has been deposed and testified numerous times.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #263553
This expert is an internationally recognized Information and Communications Technology (ICT) architect with expertise in designing and deploying enterprise-class solutions in a wide range of technologies and business sectors. This expert's extensive experience spans industry, U.S. Government, and academia environments. This expert is also a practicing security and privacy professional, who has specialized in data protection and storage security, where this expert is recognized as one of the top experts in the world.
This expert is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and been active with the Section of Science and Technology Law (SciTech). In addition to speaking and publishing on behalf of the ABA, this expert has served in several SciTech leadership roles. This expert is also actively involved in the ABA's Internet of Things (IoT) National Institute and the Artificial Intelligence National Institute.
Additionally, this expert has actively contributed to the efforts and projects of key ICT-based standards development organizations and industry associations as part of a focus on advancing the state of various technologies. This expert's passion for technology has been recognized in the form of awards and leadership positions in organization such as ISO/IEC, the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), the IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). This expert is or has served in an editorship role on the following international standards projects: ISO/IEC 22123 (Cloud computing -- Concepts and terminology), ISO/IEC 27031 (ICT readiness for business continuity), ISO/IEC 27050 (Electronic discovery), ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security), ISO/IEC PAS 16248 (TLS for Storage Systems), Rec. ITU-T 3500 | ISO/IEC 17788 (Cloud computing -- Overview and vocabulary), and IEEE 1619-2018 (XTS-AES).
This expert possesses a unique set of professional credentials that include the (ISC)2 CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP certifications as well as the ISACA CISA, IAPP CIPT, and CSA CCSK certifications.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #263695
This expert is a backup / restore expert of some renown. This expert has been hands-on in the industry. This expert is currently the Chief Technical Evangelist for a cloud backup, disaster recovery and long-term data retention firm providing enterprise solutions across multiple platforms including tape/disk technologies.
This expert started a career in backups as "the backup guy" for a credit card company. This expert managed the backups as they grew from 15 to 250 servers, and from 2 operating systems to 5 operating systems, running Informix, Oracle, Sybase & other applications.
This expert then joined a large consulting company that did well during the .com days. This expert started a company specializing in backup & recovery system design, implementation, and management. This company was ultimately acquired.
This expert worked as an analyst, publishing many blogs, articles, and webinars. This expert has written
three seminal books on the topic. This expert is also an independent consultant and writer and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world.
This expert is not a professional testifier but has served as an expert witness in patent infringement and insurance contract matters.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #244401
This expert is an internationally-recognized expert in the area of storage systems, having led the design and implementation of many state-of-the-art storage systems. This expert has served on peer-review committees for premier publication venues covering all aspects of storage system research, including systems that provide redundant remote access to remote data and metadata, take snapshots for the purpose of backups, and enforced security policy for access storage. This expert has served as an expert witness in a case involving deduplication technologies in highly virtualized storage systems.
This expert is a Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering. This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science & Engineering, holds a BS in Computer Science & Mathematics, and is a named inventor on two US Patents.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #256912
As a technology expert with many years of litigation experience in over 50 cases, including 17
patent infringement cases and 25 IPR/CBM/GPR cases, this expert has authored reports and declarations, generated over 100 claim charts, inspected tens of millions of lines of source code, and examined numerous systems. This expert has a Master of Science in Computer Science as well as many years of experience in engineering, development, consulting, and management in data networking, monitoring, Web/Internet, software, and systems. This expert’s professional background includes cofounder of an Internet company providing human communication online rating and evaluation tools and services; cofounder and president of a provider of automated Web-based telecommunication test services; cofounder and CEO of an Internet eCommerce and portal company; general manager of data storage business unit and general manager of data networking business unit at a supplier of data storage and data networking systems; founder and president of a supplier of data storage manufacturing systems; and many years as telecommunication engineer and software developer.
This expert has extensive experience with networking and test and monitoring systems. As general manager of a data networking business unit, this expert was responsible for a data networking analysis tools business unit that designed and built network protocol analysis and monitoring products sold, under OEM agreement, by the largest network protocol analysis and monitoring products supplier. These products, among other capabilities, could trap and record IP addresses and data packets matching criteria in the various layers of the TCP/IP stack.
This expert designed data storage test systems and was involved with data storage protocol analyzers and monitoring products, including the best-selling data storage protocol analysis and monitoring products. For several years, as an engineer, this expert designed and implemented computer networks, data communication systems, test systems, and monitoring systems. This expert also has many years of experience in and deep understanding of Web/Internet technologies.
This expert has litigation experience with several cases and IPRs involving data networking cases and monitoring. This expert worked for a year on a trade secret and copyright case dealing with data networking load balancers.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #226525
This distributed systems expert holds a Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc in Computer Science and is a senior academic professor and endowed chair professor in engineering and storage systems research, with over 40 years of server architecture and distributed systems expertise.
This expert taught operating systems and systems courses for over 35 years and led a leading data storage research group for over 25 years.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #243379
This cloud storage/computing expert holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, has worked in computing and technology for over 40 years, and is recognized in cloud computing from infrastructure to SaaS in both industry and academic circles.
This expert has constructed cloud data centers and used those environments to build, deploy, and operate SaaS applications for millions of users globally and for world-class scientific and research teams. This expert has extensive experience in distributed and cloud computing, including network cloud storage, data management and analytics, and encryption and compression methods for cloud storage.
This expert also has experience working with a U.S. standards institute and a prominent standards association to develop standards on cloud computing and SaaS, including contributing to a government cloud computing technology roadmap. This expert has served as a Lecturer and Course Developer on cloud computing at the university level at multiple universities.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #243430
This 3D visual effects expert is a professor at a distinguished university and is considered a leading world expert in 3D imaging and 3D data storage, among other applications.
This expert developed an early digital holographic data storage system and has applied related technology to 3D displays, including security applications in currency. This expert teaches courses on holography, lens design, optical systems, and light-matter interactions, including novel 3D X-ray machines. This expert has extensive experience in expert witness consulting, having worked with numerous technology companies in Asia, the United States, and Europe, and has participated in all aspects of patent litigation.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #243673
This cloud storage expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a well-regarded public university, with a substantial research focus on distributed software systems, including cloud computing architectures.
This expert regularly teaches courses on these topics, covering the foundational principles of cloud computing as well as related subjects such as data storage and database programming. This expert is also a recognized author in software security and has received numerous research grants from prominent government agencies on topics related to the security of distributed systems.
This expert has experience in litigation consulting, including prior work and testimony in cases involving cloud technologies, databases, and software security. This expert also works with highly qualified associates who can assist with source code review and preparation of infringement charts. The associates hold PhDs in Computer Science and have extensive prior experience assisting with high-profile patent litigation matters.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #259622
This facial recognition expert has been involved in facial and speech recognition developments since the early 1990s, has over 30 years of industry experience, and holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from a prestigious university.
This expert develops facial recognition technologies and has worked with many facial recognition systems. This expert's expertise includes speech recognition, facial recognition, detection, biometric identifiers, voiceprints, and the use and storage of user privacy data.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant in privacy matters involving speech recognition, facial recognition, biometric identifiers, voiceprints, and user privacy data. This expert is knowledgeable about facial recognition at the software coding level and has experience generating facial recognition software data, including live-video real-time facial recognition capable of detecting eye gaze and head positioning.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #270508
This network monitoring expert has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, and related systems, including flash memory such as solid state disks, memory cards, and flash drives; optical storage such as CD, DVD, WORM, and magneto-optical storage; magnetic storage such as hard disks, floppy disks, and tape; RAID and disk arrays; jukeboxes; USB; SCSI; iSCSI; IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA; Fibre Channel; PCMCIA; game programming; home appliances; and telecommunications.
This expert has written and designed device drivers, software, and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX, and other embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Professional roles have included software developer, project lead, seminar presenter, and technical writer. Technical experience includes programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, LabVIEW, C, C++, Delphi, C#, and assembly.
This expert has served as an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action, and contractual disputes, as well as patent portfolio reviews involving file systems, game programming, home appliance technology, telecommunications, and television control software. These engagements have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications, and storage industries.
This expert has written expert reports, been deposed, and provided courtroom testimony at trial. Engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, computer media duplication, and forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK, and DiskJocky.
This expert has worked on over 50 expert witness matters and has testified by deposition and at trial multiple times. Career experience has included work on networks internal and external to computer systems, including international communication networks. Prior projects have included building a system that periodically pinged computers on a network to detect computer hardware theft, and similar technology has been used to measure the availability of web systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #271437
This cloud storage expert has technical expertise in cloud storage, backup and restore technology, network technology, virtualization technology, and security. This expert has over 30 years of experience in enterprise storage, security, networking software, and telecommunications.
At major enterprise software companies, this expert served on a patent review committee analyzing thousands of invention disclosures related to security, storage, and networking. This expert has over 15 years of experience providing technology expertise for Intellectual Property matters and has worked on over 20 Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) and over 15 cases.
This expert has experience analyzing cloud storage technologies, including distributed cloud storage, cloud vault technology, backup and recovery platforms, and enterprise cloud storage systems. This expert also has experience with object storage systems and has used cloud storage as backend storage for proof-of-concept technology.
This expert has reviewed patents involving technologies such as data partitioning, cryptographic encryption, metadata association, distributed storage, and erasure encoding.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #277280
This distributed/storage expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and teaches primarily in the fields of distributed systems and back-end programming. This expert also leads a successful software consultancy developing a broad array of software components for companies and institutions. This expert has worked in distributed systems and storage for over 35 years and has contributed to several such projects, including a well-known distributed file system that remains in use today.
This expert has completed commercial development projects involving clustered file systems, network-based virtual disk systems, and replication and backup systems. This expert holds over a dozen patents and patent applications, including technologies involving distributed and local storage, data encryption and security, and broader systems issues. This expert has been involved in developing virtual storage systems, including key technology for a major application virtualization product.
This expert has developed detailed claims analysis and written opinions for storage-related patents and has litigation experience in a variety of IP-related cases, including patent litigation, IPR proceedings, and trial matters. This expert has experience testifying at both depositions and trials and is familiar with explaining technically complicated issues, such as distributed consensus, which are central to modern distributed storage solutions.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #286303
This environmental dispute investigation, liability assessment, timing and source of contamination expert is a registered Professional Engineer with over 25 years of experience in environmental assessment, remediation, and risk management, including over 20 years in environmental dispute investigation and management, cost containment, liability assessment, settlement negotiations, and expert witness services. This expert holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, serves in a senior engineering leadership role at an internationally recognized consultancy, and has conducted, managed, or overseen investigations and remediations at many sites across the country. This expert has been a member of a prominent standards committee responsible for preparing standards and guidelines for environmental investigations, environmental cost estimation, and other environmental risk management issues for over 10 years. This expert has consulted on hundreds of environmental cost recovery disputes and has been retained as an expert witness in over 30 cases.
This expert's areas of expertise include timing and source of contamination, review of costs associated with investigation and remediation, allocation of costs to different time frames, parties, or sources of contamination, and the defense of environmental consultants. Much of this expert's experience relates to work performed for insurance companies in environmental disputes where the timing of contamination is the primary area of disagreement. These cases range from small heating oil releases and underground storage tank (UST) issues to major releases from underground pipelines and aboveground storage tanks. This expert's main strategy in these cases is to rely on multiple lines of evidence, including environmental data, physical observations, witness accounts, operational data, and metallurgical analysis.
This expert has completed expert testimony on the timing of petroleum releases in non-insurance litigation, has been deposed over 30 times, and has testified at a number of trials and multiple arbitrations, including in international venues, as well as assisted in many mediations.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #292585
This biometrics data expert is a digital investigations professional with over two decades of forensic data and technology experience. This expert's experience includes a number of investigations involving biometric data, including the collection and analysis of facial recognition data and health biomarkers.
These examinations included evaluating the collection and storage of biometric data and assessing the reliability of that data. This expert routinely conducts examinations of systems, software, and complex data contained in those systems in the context of litigation, investigations, and corporate compliance.
This expert holds a master's degree in computer science and has authored work on big data forensics. This expert is also a participating member of a prominent professional biometrics council and holds relevant certifications, including Certified Information Privacy Professional (United States). This expert has testified on several occasions.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #298860
This cloud storage expert is a data encryption and cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in cryptography. This expert has written numerous books and articles on data encryption and cybersecurity, teaches cybersecurity policy at a prestigious university, and is the named inventor on many cryptography patents.
This expert is an experienced expert witness in data encryption patent matters, for both plaintiffs and defendants, including testimony on validity, invalidity, infringement, and non-infringement. This expert is supported by a team of researchers, writers, and source code reviewers.
Start Data Storage Expert SearchExpert Witness #298872
This cloud storage expert holds a PhD and has research focused on security, particularly cloud and systems security, including applied cryptography, encrypted data, and encrypted cloud storage.
This expert has published several research papers at prestigious academic venues on cloud security topics, including encryption in the cloud and various applications of cryptography.
This expert has also extensively reviewed documents and at least tens of thousands of lines of source code for massive, global-scale software systems and cloud services operated by a major technology company.
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