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J.P. serves Infrastructure & Operation Professionals in predicting and quantifying IT disruptions. J.P.'s expertise is in the IT management software and IT operations market, and his research examines the shifting industry dynamics caused by economic pressures and the impact of new technologies such as virtualization on the IT organization.
J.P. has several decades of experience as an IT technology designer and marketer and also as a client of IT technology. He has broad experience in designing advanced technology solutions in industrial and commercial applications and bringing them to market. He has written extensively on technology for several business publications. J.P. is often a featured speaker at vendor-sponsored events and webinars.
J.P. came to Forrester through the acquisition of Giga Information Group, where he was the research director of the computing infrastructure group. J.P. started his IT career in early 1968 as a software engineer working on the automation of nuclear power plants in France. J.P. then joined Bull General Electric in Paris (subsequently Honeywell Bull), where he was a designer and project leader of very large network infrastructures in France, Scandinavia, and the US. At Bull, J.P. occupied several positions in engineering, marketing, and sales. J.P. moved to the US in 1984 and filled several engineering and marketing positions with Bull Information Systems. In 1994, J.P. created Epitome Technology Corporation, a middleware software company focused on manufacturing execution systems. Prior to joining Giga, J.P. worked as an IT management consultant for several large financial institutions in the US.
J.P. graduated from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec) in Paris (M.S. in computer science). J.P. is a US citizen based in Naples, Fla., and speaks French fluently.
Top Performers' Channel Investments Span The Customer Tech Adoption Life Cycle
Tech vendors have historically treated channels as "outsourced sales" — or have, at least, invested that way. But a handful of vendors have departed from this model, choosing instead to invest...

Forrester Forrsights For Business Technology
Forrester's Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2012, was fielded to 3,616 business decision-makers located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
The Mix Will Shift Over Time, But IP WANs Are Here To Stay
Organizations of all sizes are abandoning legacy telecommunications technologies in favor of all-IP wide-area networks (WANs) to support intersite connectivity. Laggards are being pushed off of older...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

Build/Buy Capabilities: The Innovation Playbook
Few firms have the resources and wherewithal to go it alone in the face of the current climate of almost continual business disruption. Just as a firm may look to partners and suppliers to complement...
From Desktop Virtualization To User Experience Management
Over the next several years, successful organizations across Asia Pacific will radically alter their approach to end user computing. Companies will continue to use desktop virtualization to simplify...
Functional and industry-specific on-premises packaged apps aligned with organizational silos have worked well for well-defined, highly structured processes where volume, scale, and straight-through...

Solid Preparation And Proper Pilots Lead To Successful Migrations
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) chiefs at companies large and small are beginning to entrust their email to Google, IBM, Microsoft, and other hosters. Migrating email — a business-critical...

Q1 2011 Global Message Archiving Online Survey
A combination of eDiscovery needs, IT objectives, and regulatory requirements continues to drive strong message archiving adoption. The mature message archiving market, however, is in a clear...
Six Percent Of IT Operating And Capital Budgets Goes To BC/DR
According to Forrester's recent survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers, improving their business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities is the No. 1 priority for SMBs and the second...
Many CIOs are on the hot seat to innovate by delivering increasingly critical applications more quickly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of business, CIOs and application development and...