John Abbott
Founder/Chief Analyst
451 Research
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- Systems
- Storage
- Software infrastructure
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Patricia Adams
VP Research Director
Gartner
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- IT asset management (ITAM) (software and hardware)
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Michael Azoff
Senior Enterprise Software Analyst
Ovum
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- Software development and lifecycle management (SDLM)
- Agile practices in software development
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Tony Baer
Principal Analyst
Ovum
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- Application lifecycle management
- Software development methodologies (including agile)
- SOA
- IT service management/ITIL
- IT management/governance
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Michelle Bailey
Research Vice President
IDC
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- Datacenter of the Future
- Server Virtualization
- Server & Storage Workloads
- IT consolidation
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Steve Beaver
Analyst
The Virtualization Practice
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- Data Center Virtualization
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cHANGE & Configuration MONITORING SOLUTION
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Daniel Beazer
Senior Analyst EMEA
451 Research
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- Hosting
- Cloud computing
- CDN
- Datacenter
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David Bradshaw
Research Manager
IDC
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- Relationship between software and IT services
- Software/service ecosystems
- Software as a Service
- Software delivery models
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Fredrick W. Broussard
Research Director
IDC
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- PC device management software
- Enterprise system management
- Problem management software
- Change and configuration management software
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Dennis Callaghan
Senior Enterprise Software Analyst
451 Research
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- Application and Internet performance management
- Service-level monitoring and management
- IT asset and service management
- Infrastructure software for building service-oriented architectures
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cHANGE & Configuration MONITORING SOLUTION
FOR THE MODERN DATA CENTER AND CLOUD |
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Rachel Chalmers
Research Director, Infrastructure Management
451 Research
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- Enterprise infrastructure software
- Provisioning and automation layers
- Application development
- Performance monitoring
- Lifecycle management
- Virtualization
- Cloud
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Ronni Colville
VP Distinguished Analyst
Gartner
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- Configuration and Release management
- Virtualization and cloud management
- DevOps on application release automation
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David M. Coyle
Research VP
Gartner
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- IT service management (ITSM)
- Service catalog
- Social IT management
- Service desk
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Process improvement (including the ITIL framework)
- Service-level agreement (SLA) management
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Dick Csaplar
Senior Research Analyst
Aberdeen Group
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- Storage
- Virtualization
- IT Infrastructure
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Debra Curtis
Research VP
Gartner
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- Network management
- Event management
- Business service management
- IT service portfolio management
- IT service catalogs
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Rachel Dines
Analyst
Forrester
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- IT continuity and disaster recovery services and technologies
- Next-generation high availability and backup
- Data center strategies
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cHANGE & Configuration MONITORING SOLUTION
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Richard Fichera
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- IT management software
- IT operations market
- Impact of new technologies such as virtualization
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Jean-Pierre Garbani
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- IT management software
- IT operations market
- Impact of new technologies such as virtualization
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Tim Grieser
Program Vice President
IDC
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- Software for managing systems and applications
- e-business
- Distributed applications performance and availability
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Al Gillen
Program Vice President
IDC
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- Operating system adoption and deployments
- Software appliance market
- Research on both server virtualization and client virtualization software
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Milind Govekar
Research VP
Gartner
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- Cloud computing management
- Workload automation
- Application management
- Performance and capacity management
- IT financial management technology
- IT service management
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Cameron Haight
Research VP
Gartner
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- Management of server virtualization and emerging cloud computing environments
- Operational best practices (such as DevOps)
- Evaluation of emerging standards and technology providers
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Edward Haletky
Analyst
The Virtualization Practice
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- Virtualization Security
- SMB Virtualization
- Cloud Computing
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Bernd Harzog
Analyst
The Virtualization Practice
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- Virtualization Performance and Capacity Management
- IT as a Service
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Evelyn Hubbert
Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Implementation of IT service management
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Jonah Kowall
Research Director
Gartner
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- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Event correlation and analysis (ECA)
- Network management systems (NMSs)
- Network performance management (NPM)
- Network configuration and change management (NCCM)
- General system and infrastructure monitoring technologies
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Gard Little
Research Director
IDC
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- Enterprise application services
- Infrastructure optimization
enterprise resource planning
- Business intelligence
- Customer relationship management
- Supply chain management
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cHANGE & Configuration MONITORING SOLUTION
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Diego Lo Giudice
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Application Development & Delivery
Business Process
- Agile development
- Application modernization
- Change management
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- Update Your Application Development Sourcing Strategy To Drive Innovation And Differentiation
- How Holistic Is Your Application Delivery Transformation?
- Transforming Application Delivery
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Biswajeet Mahapatra
Research Director
Gartner
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- IT services in cloud computing, virtualized and traditional data center environments
- Hardware-oriented management tools and technology
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Stephen Mann
Senior Analyst
Forrester
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- Service management strategy, adoption, and implementation
- Enabling technologies
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Mark P. McDonald
GVP & Gartner Fellow
Gartner
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- CIOs
- Business of information technology
- CIO credibility
- Business use of advanced technologies
- Enterprise architecture
- Business process transformation
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John P Morency
Research VP
Gartner
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- Management of disaster recovery
- IT resiliency
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Phil Murphy
Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Application Development
- Application Modernization
- Application Portfolio Management
- Application Rationalization
- Architecture & Technology Strategy
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Glen O'Donnell
Senior Analyst
Forrester
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- Application Development, Management, Application Performance Monitoring
- Business Service Management
- CMDB
- Data Center Automation and Management
- IT Asset Management
- IT Infrastructure & Operations, Process Automation, IT Service Management
- ITIL
- Infrastructure Change Management, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Measurement
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Stefan Ried, Ph.D.
Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Application Development Processes & Tools
- Application Infrastructure Technologies
- Application Platforms & Programming Strategy
- Application Server Platforms
- Architecture & Technology Strategy
- Cloud Computing
- Computer Architectures
- Enterprise Architecture Practices, Service Bus
- IT Infrastructure & Operations
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Nathaniel Rowe
Senior Research Associate
Aberdeen Group
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- Protecting and managing IT hardware and data
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Donna Scott
VP Distinguished Analyst
Gartner
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- Real-time infrastructure
- Business availability
- Business continuity/disaster recovery
- IT operations management
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cHANGE & Configuration MONITORING SOLUTION
FOR THE MODERN DATA CENTER AND CLOUD |
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James Staten
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Cloud computing (IaaS and public and private clouds)
- Strategic rightsourcing
- Infrastructure consolidation
- Application-specific infrastructure optimizations
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Mary Johnston Turner
Research Vice President
IDC
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- Public and private cloud operations
- Data center automation
- Virtualization management
- Performance and availability management
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Doug Washburn
Principal Analyst
Forrester
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- Data center
- End user computing
- IT operations and resiliency
- Organizational maturity
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Robert Whiteley
VP, IT Portfolio & Strategy
Forrester
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- Application Development Processes & Tools
- Application Infrastructure Technologies
- Application Platforms & Programming Strategy
- Application Server Platforms
- Architecture & Technology Strategy
- Cloud Computing
- Computer Architectures
- Enterprise Architecture Practices, Service Bus
- IT Infrastructure & Operations
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We've compiled below our POWER40, a handpicked list of the top analysts focused on IT Operations. These analysts have a tremendous influence on the IT operations segment and on IT in general. With their research and insights they help to shape the industry and identify trends. 
