Clients and Kudos

Scality

Scality is a pioneering innovator of software-defined, multi-cloud data storage at petabyte scale.

Competitive research and analysis, working with 3rd-party software vendors, demos and sizing tools.

Unicef

The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries

Requirements development for two software systems

Tri-College Consortium

The Tri-College Consortium (also known as the Tri-Co) consists of three private liberal arts colleges in the Philadelphia suburbs: Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College

Business and technical Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis of existing local storage model with cloud backup projected into the future. Research and written report with technical and business recommendations on a move to the cloud.

Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgender Historical Society

The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them. Founded in 1985, they are recognized internationally as a leader in the field of GLBT public history.

Digital preservation consulting services that lay the groundwork for enabling enhanced online access to digital content.

California Revealed

California Revealed is a California State Library initiative. See http://www.library.ca.gov/services/libraries/ca-revealed.html

California Revealed is a State Library initiative designed to help public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, develop effective digitization and preservation plans and deliver local history online digital collections for the public, with a particular focus on collections that align with the California K-12 social studies curriculum. California Revealed is currently in its first (pilot) phase. Gail Truman is one of the Consultants on this project.

Harvard Library

The Harvard Library system comprises about 73 libraries, with more than 18 million volumes. It is the oldest library system in the United States and the largest university library and largest private library system in the world.(Wikipedia).

Web Archiving Environmental Scan of 23 peer institutions and national libraries. See http://library.harvard.edu/03112016-1203/harvard-library-environmental-scan-web-archiving for more information and to access the final report.

New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)

NYARC consists of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives.

Consulting for grant-funded "Reframing Collections for a Digital Age", a preparatory study for collecting and preserving web-based art research materials. Recommendations on best methods for web archiving, information that should and could be collected, and potential partners to engage.

Gail has proven to be just the right fit as a consultant for a NYARC grant project examining web archiving art resources. We choose her after receiving recommendations from clients including the British Library. She was thorough in her investigations and delivered a concise and well-organized report that met every expectation. We will immediately benefit from her recommendations and hope to work with her again. I should add that her great good humor made tackling a complex task more fun than it even should have been.

Deborah Kempe, Chief, Collections Management & Access, The Frick Art Reference Library at The Frick Collection, September, 2012

Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum is the world's leading institution exploring the history of computing and its ongoing impact on society. It is home to the largest international collection of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, software, documentation, ephemera, photographs and moving images.

Advise the Computer Systems Museum on system infrastructure and implementation for a small scale digital repository for long-term access. Act as the storage subject matter expert for architectural design and technology selection with respect to the Storage environment.

Truman Technologies actively engaged in our preservation storage infrastructure project, conscientiously investigating our needs and concerns. They spurred staff to think clearly and deliberately about the project. Truman Technologies was consistently responsive including being willing to alter course as needed.

Paula Jabloner, Director of Collections, Computer History Museum. June 2012

Evault Corportion

EVault has been in the cloud storage business since 1997 and serves more than 43,000 global customers. Evault parent company, Seagate, is the world’s largest storage company and has been selling storage devices for more than 30 years. EVault® Long-Term Storage Service (LTS2), launching December 2013, is a multi-exabyte, disk-based, preservation-optimized cloud storage service.

Product definition and product management consulting for Long-Term Storage Service (LTS2), launching December 2013. Business analysis and development, competitive assessment, partner engagement.

Stanford University

Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

1. Conduct in-depth requirements and technical review and then propose the design for an end-to-end solution for a web archiving service for Stanford. 2. Project Management, Library Web Redesign project (Drupal)

Arrow ECS Oracle Group

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions is a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. a $5.8B Fortune 200 company. Arrow ECS provides comprehensive channel management services to help suppliers (such as Oracle Corporation) effectively manage their channels, and to help resellers develop new markets, with the goal of helping them grow faster than the market and faster than their competition.

Development of Oracle- and open source-based archive/repository solution stacks and methodologies to enable and drive value-add selling. Solution launch execution to resellers, demand generation, collateral generation, reseller training, and customer consulting. Specific focus is around the Scalable Online Archive & Repository (SOAR) solution.

Gail is a very talented, organized product marketing person with a clear understanding of the solutions she is marketing. She is able to collect information in many different formats and from many sources and create easy to understand solution presentations and papers. These deliverables make the value [of the solution] very clear to non-technical as well as hold the interest of the technical audience.

Donna Harland, Archive Solutions, Oracle Corporation (Arrow ECS is an Oracle supplier partner). March 2010

Panasas

The leader in high performance parallel storage for business-critical applications, Panasas helps organizations accelerate their time to revenue and time to results.

Development of Panasas Partner Product Reference Guide document

TierraCloud

Enterprise Private Cloud storage software (open source) and services provider

Collateral development, beta customer management and reference program, press/analyst briefings, business development, and more.

It has been a pleasure working with Gail in the last few months at TierraCloud. She is a very detail-oriented person with excellent knowledge of customer base and competitive landscape in the market segment that she works in, and has been helping us with customer and partner relationships.

Sriram Rupanagunta, Founder, TierraCloud. August 2010

And the others...

This is just a partial listing, since some clients request that we work in "stealth mode" or have policies that prevent us from using their name. We currently are working with a large east coast University college of medicine to help then get a repository of historic images, video, audio and other ephemera on line for teaching purposes.