Dave Simpson joined 451 Research's Storage practice as Senior Analyst in June 2011. He leads the company's research activities around data protection, in particular those driven by emerging technologies and business models, such as virtualization and cloud. Accordingly, Dave serves as the lead analyst for technologies including backup and recovery, data deduplication, disaster recovery, replication and high-availability. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Dave was the Editor-in-Chief of InfoStor.com, a website focused 100% on the data storage market and targeting IT end users, storage channel professionals, vendors and investors. Dave launched InfoStor in 1997. Prior to launching InfoStor, Dave held senior editor positions at a number of publications, including Datamation, Client/Server Today, Digital News & Review, Systems Integration and Mini-Micro Systems. He has been covering the IT industry for more than 25 years, focusing on the storage sector for the last 15 years.

Dave is based in Los Angeles, California, and reports to Research Director for Storage, Simon Robinson.