About
Dan Olds began his high-tech career on the vendor side of the industry with Cray Research, Sun Microsystems, and IBM before founding Gabriel Consulting Group in 2002. He was one of the first technologists to study IT total cost of ownership, virtualization, and server consolidation; he began writing about the impact of analytics before the industry press gave it a name (“Big Data”).
Dan is an Analyst for Gigaom Research and is frequently quoted in industry and business publications including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Computerworld, eWeek, CIO.com, PCWorld, ServerWatch and others. He writes the HPC “Analyst Blog” on The Register and serves as Chief Editor of inside-BigData.
Dan earned an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.
