IDC Market Areas

Meet Our Team

Al Gillen
Program Vice President, System Software

Mary Johnston Turner
Research Director, System Management Software

Michelle Bailey
Research Vice President, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends

Christian A. Christiansen
Program Vice President, Security Products and Services

Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers

Gary Chen
Research Manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software

Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President, Enterprise Platforms

Ian Song
Research Analyst , Enterprise Virtualization Software

Chris Ingle
Associate Vice President, Consulting, SIS Group

Nathaniel Martinez
Program Director, European Enterprise Servers

Romain Fouchereau
Research Analyst, European Enterprise Server Solutions — Security

Hiroshi Shibutani
Senior Market Analyst, PC, Mobile & Client Solution, IDC Japan

Bob O'Donnell
Program VP, Clients and Displays

Matt Healey
Research Manager, Software and Hardware Support Services

Satoshi Fukutomi
Research Manager, Server, IDC Japan

Lucinda Borovick
Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks

Mitsuhiro Iriya
Market Analyst, Software & Security, IDC Japan

Giorgio Nebuloni
Senior Research Analyst, European Enterprise Server Group, IDC EMEA

Richard L. Villars
Vice President, Storage Systems & Executive Strategies

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ONGOING ANALYSIS

The days of virtualization being used only as a tactical tool to drive consolidation and higher system utilization are quickly ending. The use of virtualization has matured from simple partitioning and encapsulation to leveraging the mobility of virtual machines to improve management and operations of IT environments. Virtualization 2.0 includes a host of new use cases that range from high availability and disaster recovery to hosted clients and true utility computing. To view recently published virtualization research, please click here.