I've spent three decades at the intersection of enterprise IT infrastructure and practical business solutions. As the founder and president of Dataforge Canada, I lead a team that has been serving businesses across Burlington, Hamilton, and the Greater Toronto Area for 30 years. My technical expertise spans the full evolution of enterprise storage—from tape systems and autoloaders in the early days to today's cutting-edge distributed file systems and CEPH clusters managing 100TB+ environments. My background includes extensive work in server clustering, process control systems, and security implementations that began in 1996, well before cybersecurity became a mainstream business concern. Today, I focus on solving complex storage challenges for mid-market enterprises in manufacturing, ...