Disk Data Storage Expert Witnesses
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Disk data storage expert witness candidates typically have an advanced degree and expertise in electrical engineering, computer science, materials science, and/or hardware engineering. Disk storage refers to devices whereby data is recorded and stored via electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to surface layer rotating disks. Common devices include the hard disk drive (HDD), the floppy disk drive (FDD), and optical disc drives (ODD).
A disk data storage expert witness often provides expertise in intellectual property matters such as a patent litigation or a trade secret dispute. A computer forensics expert can determine if there is evidence to reveal intellectual property infringement or theft. Clients may also seek a disk data storage specialist for pre-litigation consulting work.
In a litigation support scenario, a technical expert can expect courtroom testimony, as well as other expert witness services such as depositions, expert opinion, expert testimony, a prior art search, an expert report, computer forensic analysis, claim charts, and related consulting activities. In high profile cases, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, previous expert witness experience is often a requirement. A disk data storage expert witness must not only have the appropriate substantive expertise, but should also possess the ability to explain electronic evidence and technology to lay people, including a judge and jury.
Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called on by law firm clients to locate expert witnesses that can support matters involving disk data storage technology. Whether the project involves:
- a digital forensic investigation,
- unallocated space,
- deleted file recovery,
- hard drive data extraction,
- optical discs, or
- a disk image,
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search around quickly. History has shown that the firm consistently provides experts with the perfect balance of expertise and testimony to support each specific project and its nuances.
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Disk Data Storage Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Disk Data Storage experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Disk Data Storage landscape.
Expert 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 Disk 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 Disk 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.
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