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Accurate, Independent Insight for the LTO Tape Storage Community

The LTO Show strives to present industry content with the highest level of technical and business accuracy. We want to help you as you make the case for LTO Tape storage. That’s why we have assembled a Technical Advisory Committee with leading experts in the data storage industry to provide guidance and oversight on our written and podcast content to make sure it’s meeting our high standards.

THE LTO SHOW TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Thomas Coughlin

CEO of Coughlin Associates

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected digital storage analyst as well as business and technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and management positions at several companies as well as over 25 years as a respected consultant.
Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in it’s second edition with Springer. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis as well as Data Storage and Memory Technical and Business Consulting services. Tom publishes the Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, the Media and Entertainment Storage Report, the New Non-Volatile Memory Report and other industry reports. Tom is also a regular contributor on digital storage for Forbes.com and other blogs.

Fred Moore

CEO, Horison Information Strategies

Fred Moore began a 21-year career with StorageTek as the first systems engineer and concluded as corporate vice president of Strategic Planning and Marketing. In 1998, Fred founded Horison Information Strategies in Boulder, Colorado, a data storage industry analyst and consulting firm that specializes in keynote speaking, executive briefings, marketing strategy, and business development for end-users and storage hardware and software suppliers. Fred served as Editor of Storage for Computer Technology Review magazine and has written numerous books, articles, research reports and webcasts for the storage industry.

Carl Watts

Storage Leader, Library of Congress

Carl Watts is a storage architect with 30+ years in enterprise data systems. His background spans enterprise storage environments and every major tape format—from 2-inch reel, D2, and DLT to modern BaFe-based systems like T10000 and LTO-9/10. He has designed and operated multi-petabyte object-storage and NFS/S3 estates, engineered high-volume archival workflows, and built large-scale fixity validation. Carl has led complex data migrations across heterogeneous platforms, developed tooling for metadata extraction, audit logging, and automation, and supported HPC-adjacent environments involving billions of files and sustained multi-GB/s throughput. His work centers on reliability engineering, storage-lifecycle design, and long-horizon digital preservation at scale.