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Noel serves Application Development & Program Delivery Professionals. He primarily covers database management systems (DBMSes), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information life-cycle management, open source databases, and other emerging database technologies.
Noel has more than 20 years of experience in IT and has held various technical and management positions. He came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, Noel spent several years at Exodus Communications and led a group responsible for planning and implementing mission-critical enterprise applications. Prior to Exodus, he served as a principal consultant, benchmark specialist, and data architect for Amdahl. He has worked on several large, terabyte-sized database applications and deployed high-availability and high-scalability solutions for various enterprises. He has vast experience in implementing and supporting leading DBMSes and data management products.
Noel has spoken at numerous industry conferences around the globe and is quoted frequently in industry publications, such as CNET News, Computerworld, eWeek, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Forbes, Search.com, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has taught several technical and management programs on grid computing, data management, security, scalability, consolidation, and information fabric.
Noel holds a Bachelor's Degree in business and a postgraduate degree in business administration. Noel is the author of an Oracle book and is currently working on another book on data security.
Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook
Customer data is the lifeblood of the contemporary enterprise. It's used in virtually every function of the business, including product research, design, and development; advertising and marketing...

Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market
Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook
In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market
Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...

This data chart examines ETL adoption trends based on a survey of 173 professionals who have purchased ETL software at their organizations.
Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Stone Bond, And Red Hat Close Behind
In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of data virtualization — also known as information-as-a-service (IaaS) — vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, and Denodo...
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers; current database security challenges; why nonproduction environments such as test, development, Q&A, and staging are equally...

Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates
Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...
Overcoming RDBMS Limitations Enables New Application Patterns
Business growth and speed are driving new application and data requirements that demand different approaches to data management. Although relational databases are great for most business...
This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...
Improves Online Transaction Processing And Data Warehouse Performance And Delivers A Consolidation Platform
Forrester recently interviewed 16 Oracle customers who use Oracle Exadata to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that Oracle Exadata exceeded performance and high-availability...
IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind
In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...
Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost
Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...
The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future
Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

Data Archiving Is A Flexible Technology That Delivers Many Use Cases
With growing data volume, increasing data security breaches, and complex application-performance issues, most enterprises today face significant data management challenges. Keeping inactive data...

IBM, ANTs Software, And EnterpriseDB Offer Innovative New Options
Database migrations have always been complex, time-consuming, and costly due to proprietary data structures and data types, SQL extensions, and procedural languages. It can take up to several months...
Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value
The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...
Specialized Data Management Options Abound — Are Any Right For Your Apps?
Growth in the volume and pace of business is driving new application and data requirements that are often well beyond the design limits of existing relational database technologies. These include...
Ease Of Use, Integration, Reliability, And Low Cost Make It A Compelling Solution
Over the past six months, Forrester interviewed 26 companies using Microsoft SQL Azure to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database...
Today, most organizations face growing data integration challenges due to increased data volume, complex data types, and an increased business need for real-time data. Information-as-a-service (IaaS)...
DBAs Gain Advanced Yet Usable Features For Heterogeneous DBMS
Vendors continue adding new and improved database administration features to their database management systems (DBMS) to automate more functions, yet enterprises with large and complex environments...
Planning Helps Improve Security And Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Hackers continue to break into critical databases across the globe, largely because of gaps in database security implementations and lack of cohesive controls. Although enterprises can pass...
The breakneck adoption of the Apple iPhone posed big challenges for Razorfish, the firm that developed the iPhone activation application for the UK. To support the activation of 12,000 iPhones per...
Today, databases and related infrastructure have grown to become a significant part of most IT budgets, and continued growth in the volume of data and the number of database applications threatens to...