Jerome Wendt is the President and Lead Analyst for the Datacenter Infrastructure Group Inc. (DCIG Inc), an independent storage analyst and consulting firm based in Omaha, NE. DCIG Inc provides guidance on new and emerging storage trends and advises clients on how to best architect their storage infrastructure to adapt to the coming evolution in storage management. Wendt contributes regularly to a variety of industry trade publications, prepares storage technology specific white papers and has presented at numerous storage technology conferences. Prior to founding DCIG Inc, Wendt worked as a storage engineer for a Fortune 500 company where he was a member of their global storage support team responsible for seven data centers and hundreds of terabytes of storage.