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James Staten

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations PROFESSIONALS

Blog: Infrastructure & Operations Blog

James serves Infrastructure & Operations and CIO Professionals, providing insights and best-practice use of cloud computing (IaaS, public and private clouds, cloud storage services and related cloud technologies and services). As the content lead for Forrester's Cloud Computing Playbook, he further advises IT leadership on cloud economics, cloud outsourcing (strategic rightsourcing), IT cloud readiness and business and developer engagement on cloud.

James is the author of best-practice analysis on maturing your virtualization and cloud practices, building a cloud computing consumption strategy, and optimizing web infrastructures for blazing-fast performance.

Previous Work Experience

James has more than 25 years' experience in the industry, having served as a reseller, vendor strategist, chief marketing officer, journalist, and analyst for companies including Autodesk, Azul Systems, Gartner, Rockwell International, and Sun Microsystems.

He is a frequent speaker at industry, corporate, educational, and Wall Street events and has guest lectured at leading business schools. James has been named a top cloud computing analyst each of the last four years by leading industry associations including Web Hosting Industry Review (2009) Apollo Research (2010-11) and fWired (2012). He is also the 2011 recipient of the Forrester Bill Bluestein Award, given to the analyst whose body of work continually inspires our clients and guides their decisions to be great.

Education

Working out of Silicon Valley, James holds a master's degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas.

Research Coverage:

Amazon, CSC, Capgemini, Cisco Systems, Dell, Deloitte, Hewlett-Packard, Infosys Technologies, Oracle, Research In Motion, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro

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For CIO Professionals
Report:Develop Cloud Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard
Performance Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook
James Staten, Lauren E. NelsonJune 13, 2012
This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for CIOs working on developing effective objectives and metrics for their organization's cloud strategy. Crafting and measuring...
- Downloads: 669
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Justifying Your Cloud Investment: High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Cloud Economics Makes HPC Projects More Attainable For The Masses
Lauren E. Nelson, James StatenDecember 22, 2010
It's one thing to say infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to invest in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing for their high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. It's...
- Downloads: 1002
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Hollow Out The MOOSE: Reducing Cost With Strategic Rightsourcing
Operationalizing BTaaS And Determining What Infrastructure Services Not To Do Yourself
James StatenMarch 19, 2009
Leading IT shops are leveraging today's recessionary climate to transform their organizations and the portfolio of services they manage and maintain. A new business-technology-as-a-service model, put...
- Downloads: 1186
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Calculating Your Relative Cost Of Operations
Andrew Reichman, James StatenOctober 07, 2008
This document provides a simple methodology for calculating the cost impacts of a new technology investment, process change, or project. Rather than conduct a full TCO analysis that can be...
- Downloads: 171
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:TCO Is Overrated
Use Relative Cost Of Operations For Most Infrastructure Investment Justifications
Andrew Reichman, James StatenAugust 26, 2008
Total cost of operations (TCO)-based financial analysis is held up as the gold standard for technology investment justification, but most firms don't have the rigor to apply the discipline to their...
- Downloads: 1181
For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report:Cost Analysis And Measurement Help Ensure Consolidation Success
James StatenJanuary 15, 2008
Most enterprises are involved in or planning IT consolidation projects to address cost issues, but those that have made the effort have found that their expectations going in often are hard to...
- Downloads: 813

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