BRIAN A. BERG
Computer Consultant

SCSI, USB
Flash Memory
Storage Area Networks
Optical Storage
Expert Witness

bberg@bswd.com
www.bswd.com


BERG
SOFTWARE
DESIGN

14500 Big Basin Way
Suite F
Saratoga, CA
95070 USA

+1.408.741.5010


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 Berg Software Design is a consulting organization offering software design and expert witness services. Mr. Berg, President of Berg Software Design, has extensive experience with storage devices and interfaces, including SCSI, USB, Flash Memory, Fibre Channel, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, Storage Area Networks and optical storage. He has been a project leader, software developer, industry analyst, technical marketer and writer, as well as conference chair, session chair and speaker.

Mr. Berg is experienced with device drivers, embedded firmware and real-time systems under Windows, UNIX, and various real-time operating systems. He has designed and implemented storage subsystems and performed marketing studies.

Mr. Berg has reviewed patents, investigated trade secret infringement allegations, and served as an expert witness.

Mr. Berg has led seminars on the use of SCSI and optical storage devices. He has designed and implemented both initiator and target SCSI software systems, including defining special SCSI commands and using ASPI. Device types with which he has worked include optical, disk, tape, jukebox, RAID, printer and scanner.

Partial List of Consulting Clients
July 1979 to present

Areas of Expertise

Education

Professional Organization Memberships
ACM, Blade Systems Alliance, Computer History Museum (Core Member), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA), International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley (IEEE-CNSV), PATCA (Senior Member), Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, Software Development Forum (SDF), The Tech Museum of Innovation.

Public Speaking and Conference Participation

  • Flash Memory Summit Conference Advisory Board member
  • Server Blade Summit Conference Advisory Board member
  • Server Blade Summit: Chaired Interfaces session and Getting the Most from Your Blade Servers tutorial: Santa Clara, CA (22-24 March 2005).
  • Server Blade Summit: Chaired Blade Standards session and Storage Architectures tutorial: San Jose, CA (9-11 March 2004).
  • SAN West 2002: Chaired Storage Management and iSCSI sessions: San Jose, CA (13-15 May 2002).
  • Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Chaired Storage Management Software and SAN File Systems sessions: San Jose, CA (16-18 October 2001).
  • SAN Conference 2001: Chaired two Storage Over Ethernet and IP sessions: San Jose, CA (5-7 June 2001).
  • DAFS DevCon: First Direct Access File System Developers Conference: Chaired and spoke at Independent Software Vendors: Technical Orientation session: Durham, NC (19-20 October 2000).
  • Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Chaired Relationships with SCSI session: San Jose, CA (10-12 October 2000).
  • SAN Conference 2000: Chaired Storage Management Software session: San Jose, CA (30 May-1 June 2000).
  • Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Chaired Relationships with SCSI session: San Jose, CA (2-4 November 1999).
  • SAN Workshop 1999: Chaired SAN Software session: San Jose, CA (1-2 June 1999).
  • Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Chaired Networking Applications session: San Jose, CA (15-17 September 1998).
  • InfoStor '98: Chaired Storage Implications of Windows NT 5.0 session: San Jose, CA (March 1998).
  • Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, every April in Pacific Grove, CA: conference chair (1997-2000), conference committee member (1989-present), session chair (1989-present), and speaker (1987-present).
  • WESCON: Consultants' Clinic speaker in three sessions: San Francisco, CA (12-14 August 2003).
  • IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV): Consultants' Clinic session speaker: Sunnyvale, CA (18 March 2003, 15 January 2002, 19 June 2001).
  • PATCA: Consultants' Clinic session speaker: Santa Clara, CA (11 April 2002).
  • IEEE CNSV/PATCA Consultants' Business Seminar: Session speaker: Sunnyvale, CA (October 2005, May 2000, May 1999, May 1998).
  • Optical Information Systems (OIS) Conference: Session chair and speaker: London, ENGLAND (1992, 1991 and 1990), Washington, DC (1990, 1989 and 1988), New York, NY (1987), Los Angeles, CA (1987).

Books and Publications

  • InfoStor: author of RAID, I2O and NT: Making the Synergy Happen, January 1998; PennWell Publishing Co., Tulsa, OK.
  • The Ancot Connection (quarterly newsletter): author of SCSI Observations from the Field column; Ancot Corp., Menlo Park, CA.
  • Computer Technology Review: author of Solving SCSI's Cable Length Dilemma, February 1997; WestWorld Productions, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA.
  • EDN Products Edition: author of SCSI Software... Issues and Resources, Technology Focus, July 18, 1994; Cahners Publishing Co., Newton, MA.
  • Stacks: The Network Journal: author of SCSI: An Integrator's Resource Guide, the August 1993 cover article; M&T Publishing/Miller Freeman, Inc.
  • Essential Guide to Multifunction Optical Storage and Rewritable Optical Storage Technology (author of chapters on SCSI and rewritable and multifunction drive software); Meckler Corp., Westport, CT, 1991.
  • Software for Optical Storage (co-editor; author of 3 chapters), Meckler Corp.; Westport, CT, 1989. 249 pp.
  • Systems Integration Business/Mini-Micro Systems magazines (1987-1991): Disk Roundtable participant; SCSI and optical storage article author.
  • Optical Information Systems, Meckler Corp. (bi-monthly): editorial board member and contributing writer (1987-1991).