About

The name

General System Dynamics takes its name from system dynamics — the discipline of modeling how complex systems behave over time — and from its founder's lifelong passion for systems theory, the field in which he earned his master's degree. The company's first published research put that training to work: system dynamics simulations modeling media consumption and cost in enterprise backup environments, presented at the Storage Decisions conferences in Chicago, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. That habit of thinking — model the whole system, not the isolated part — has shaped everything the company has built since.

The history

Founded in Chicago in 2008, General System Dynamics spent its first decade in enterprise data storage: Data Manager™, a platform for executing legal holds against backup data for eDiscovery, and Storage Forecaster, a modeling tool for storage capacity planning. Alongside the products came a body of published work — white papers, CIO guidance on legal holds, and features in Processor Magazine, Dell TechPageOne, and the InfoSec Institute — preserved in the Insights archive.

Today

Today General System Dynamics is Brian Greenberg's technology leadership and security practice: cybersecurity and risk governance, responsible AI adoption, data protection, and IT strategy. Fractional and interim CIO, CTO, and CISO engagements are delivered through Fortium Partners, where Brian is a Senior Partner. See Services.

When the problem calls for software, the company writes it: apps for Apple platforms, web and cloud applications, and open-source tooling for AI-assisted engineering, including the Apache-2.0 Senior Engineering Partner skill, an engineering-discipline framework for AI coding agents. The apps are small, focused, and private: data stays on your device or in your own iCloud, with no analytics and no tracking. See the Software page.

Leadership

General System Dynamics was founded by Brian Greenberg, a technology executive and engineer whose work spans data storage, security, and IT strategy. He is a fractional and interim CIO, CTO, and CISO, a Senior Partner at Fortium Partners, and an adjunct professor at DePaul University, where he teaches cybersecurity. His current writing and background live at briangreenberg.net.

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