David G. Hill

David Hill is a partner at IMEX Research in Storage Industry Research and Practice. Formerly he was Vice President of Storage Research and founder of the Storage & Storage Management practice at the Aberdeen Group before starting Mesabi Group as its principal analyst.

He is a leading thought leader in the field of storage and storage management, providing guidance to enterprises on how best to leverage their enterprise-wide storage investments to derive additional business value and laying plans to intelligently migrate to new and improved storage and storage management technologies, policies and practices for future growth. David has an advanced degree from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At Aberdeen , Hill led both qualitative and quantitative market research studies. Earlier at EMC, David carried out strategic marketing, competitive analysis, sales force planning, and market forecasting. Prior to it David directed Data General's internal IT data centers as well as managed the introduction of new analytical tools and business systems.

David Hill is frequently quoted in such publications as Byteandswitch.com, Computer Business Review, eWeek, InfoStor, IT World, Network World, and Storage Networking World Online.