Darren Thomson

Darren ThomsonDarren Thomson works as a Senior Technical Director within the Symantec EMEA Technical Sales Organisation (TSO). He has overall technical responsibility for the EMEA Storage & Availability Management Practice and he is currently responsible for the development and delivery of IT Risk Management practices to our global clients.

Since joining Symantec in July, 2003, Darren has run various consulting groups including global practices covering Business Continuity Management, Storage & Data Management and Utility Computing. More recently he and his teams have worked with our clients to improve their IT risk postures and improve their IT operational efficiencies using forward thinking and innovative consulting techniques.

Before joining Symantec, Darren worked at The Morse Group, a pan-European systems integrator focused on the design and implementation of critical I.T. systems in the Financial Services, Telco and Media sectors. His final position at Morse was as their Group Technical Strategist, focused on “next generation” compute and storage network technologies. This role brought Darren into contact with many of today’s leading edge companies.

A citizen of the UK, Darren is a published author, his latest work being “Delivery Utility Computing: Business Driven IT Optimization” (ISBN 0-470-01576-4). He was educated in Hertfordshire, England and now holds several I.T. related qualifications including ITIL Practitioner and Management of Risk (“MoR”) accreditations from the UK Office of Government Commerce.
Darren is also a regular contributor to various media publications and also appears regularly on both podcasts and on radio programmes, most notably WFED, Federal News Radio in the United States.