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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.
In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...
Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison
During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud
Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...

But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity
Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Israel for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges, market awareness and...

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros
Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
How IT Will Forge Lasting Relationships With Process Owners And Process Teams
Business process transformation requires an unprecedented level of collaboration among business owners, process teams, and IT, three groups not accustomed to working together. IT usually limits...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Turkey for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program
Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
Spending Growth Comes To A Halt As Europe Slides Into Recession
Overview of the European ICT Market

Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....