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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.
Forrsights North America And Europe
Forrester surveyed 933 technology decision-makers and approximately 2,500 developers at North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of...
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...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in India 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 the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

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...

Most Enterprises Plan Imminent B2B Upgrades To Address Key Issues
Forrester surveyed 300 senior IT managers in North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regarding the state of their business-to-business (B2B) integration infrastructure and plans for future...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in South Africa for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and...
This report provides an overview of the virtualization adoption trends in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data reflects over 450 interviews with CIOs, IT managers,...
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...

Solutions To Support Key Customer-Facing Business Processes
Forrester reviewed 24 CRM suite solutions to understand their strengths and weaknesses to support eight key cross-functional processes in the utilities and telecommunications industries: 1) customer...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in China for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
The information and communications technology (ICT) industry is facing the next big wave of verticalization. With business challenges becoming increasingly complex, ICT solutions to address and solve...
ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice
Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...