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Lauren E. Nelson

Analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations PROFESSIONALS

Lauren E. Nelson, Forrester's private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud lead, is an analyst based in Cambridge, Mass., serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. Her coverage area spans the IaaS space with extensive knowledge of solutions (including internal private, hosted private, and public IaaS), enterprise adoption trends, the current state of cloud standardization, and cloud metrics creation. Her coverage also includes strategic rightsourcing of applications, cloud strategy development, customer use cases, cloud adoption trends, cloud economics, and the green implications of cloud computing. Lauren has advised hundreds of enterprises on these topics through speeches, workshops, webinars, inquiries, advisory, and reports.

Previous Work Experience

Previously, Lauren was a researcher on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. She interviewed hundreds of I&O Professionals and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research for reports and consulting engagements. Prior to her time at Forrester, Lauren worked in environmental economics research, focusing on temperature change and racial diversity near SuperFund sites.

Education

Lauren graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in economics.

Research Coverage:

Accenture, Capacity on Demand & Utility Computing, Cisco Systems, Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Dell, Green IT, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IT Infrastructure & Operations, Infosys Technologies, Infrastructure Architectures, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Lauren E. Nelson's Research

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report: Case Study: Waste Management Builds A True Private Cloud
Lauren E. NelsonMay 8, 2013
By building a private cloud the right way, Waste Management (WM) reduced resource deployment time from two and a half months to around 20 minutes and gave existing public cloud users a satisfact...
- Downloads: 72
For CIOs
Report: The Rise Of The New Cloud Admin
James Staten, Lauren E. NelsonFebruary 21, 2013
Nearly half of all enterprise IT shops claim to be prioritizing private cloud investments in 2013, but both in the largest enterprises and those firms that are most aggressively investing in pub...
- Downloads: 385
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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report: The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud, Q1 2013
Lauren E. NelsonJanuary 17, 2013
Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012 showed that 46% of enterprises are prioritizing investments in private clouds in 2013. While slightly more than half plan to build a private cloud...
- Downloads: 869
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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report: A Sample Internal Private Cloud Balanced Scorecard For I&O Professionals
Lauren E. NelsonOctober 1, 2012
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is built around four dimensions that we have adjusted for use in information technology: the value perspective, the customer orientation perspective, the operational...
- Downloads: 63
For CIOs
Report: Develop Cloud Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard
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 meas...
- Downloads: 700

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Report: Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011
Lauren E. Nelson, James StatenMay 17, 2011
Over the past year, client inquiry questions have evolved from "What is cloud?" to "What vendors should I consider?" This market overview examines the landscape of vendors providing solutions de...
- Downloads: 2836
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For CIOs
Report: Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey
James Staten, Lauren E. NelsonMay 10, 2012
Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new pr...
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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Report: 2011 Top 10 IaaS Cloud Predictions For I&O Leaders
James Staten, Lauren E. NelsonFebruary 14, 2011
IaaS is undoubtedly one of your top priorities, but will you craft a plan for success? Many enterprises are headed toward a number of cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding the makeup, benefit...
- Downloads: 2066
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Report: Market Overview: Public IaaS Clouds, Q4 2011, Part 1
Lauren E. Nelson, James StatenNovember 7, 2011
While cloud computing is still in the early adopter phase, you're under executive pressure to develop a cloud strategy. And it's up to you to sort through the cloud washing and not only understa...
- Downloads: 1248
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Report: Market Overview: Public IaaS Clouds, Q4 2011, Part 2
James Staten, Lauren E. NelsonNovember 7, 2011
For many I&O professionals, developing a cloud strategy is a top priority for 2011 and 2012. After strategically selecting certain workloads fit for public IaaS, it's now time for selecting your...
- Downloads: 1239