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Chris serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, providing insight into how trends like cloud and virtualization have an impact on best practices and IT strategy. He has written extensively on how cloud services affect how IT pros deliver email and collaboration services to their employees. Chris focuses on supporting the purchasing and architectural decisions that affect Microsoft-based client and server platforms and Microsoft-based collaboration infrastructures. He helps Forrester's IT clients make technology implementation decisions and negotiate Microsoft software licensing agreements.
Prior to rejoining Forrester in 2006, Chris was a technology and systems consultant, guiding small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in running their IT departments and managing and monitoring the stability, performance, and security of their server and network infrastructure. He planned and implemented client projects encompassing Microsoft licensing and other infrastructure purchases, large-scale Microsoft Active Directory domain migrations, messaging environments, regulatory compliance, multisite disaster recovery and replication, backups, and security. In his previous role at Forrester, he conducted both primary and secondary research to support competitive analyses on infrastructure technologies.
Chris also worked at Intel as a hardware engineer focusing on the design and testing of low-power processors.
Christopher holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Lehigh University.
Executive Overview: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
BYOD. BYOPC. Consumerization. These are the words that send shivers down the spines of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for "end user computing" in their companies....
Vision: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives responsible for "end user computing" — the delivery and support of technology and...
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

Executive Overview: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the executive overview of Forrester's solution for security and risk professionals working on managing mobile and consumer devices. Smartphones and tablets are quickly becoming...
Interest in cloud-based email is mounting as pressures for IT infrastructure and operations professionals (I&O) to manage and secure smartphones and tablets for an increasingly mobile workforce are...
