Mary E. Shacklett is a contributing writer to Datamation and Enterprise Storage Forum. She's also president of Transworld Data, and as an IT consultant and analyst has covered every aspect of IT with more than 1,000 published articles She has a B.S. degree in Comparative Literature and Education from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. degree in American Studies from the University of Southern California, and a JD degree from William Howard Taft University in Orange County, CA. In her spare time, Mary writes fiction, plays jazz, and manages a 75-acre forest.