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Richard Fichera

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations PROFESSIONALS

Richard is a member of Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations research team and has coverage responsibilities for servers and data center architecture and transformation. Among the core technologies he focuses on are blade and modular servers, converged infrastructure, virtualization and management of virtual data center resources, enterprise cloud infrastructure, and techniques for data center transformation.

Previous Work Experience

Richard recently returned to Forrester after spending four years as director of BladeSystem strategy at Hewlett-Packard. He was responsible for planning future technology products as well as serving as an executive sponsor for large financial service companies; participating in merger and acquisition projects; and serving as a member of HP's Technology Advisory Council team, which solicited input from a group of senior customer representatives. Richard was also a member of the startup team at Egenera, an early blade server and virtualization pioneer.

During his 10-year tenure at Forrester, Richard consulted with many large companies on their technology road maps and strategy, emerging technologies and their role in the organizations, vendor management and selection, and data center migration and transformation.


Education

Richard has a combined degree in computer science, operations research, and statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research Coverage:

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Management, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Infrastructure Architectures, Oracle, Server Hardware, Server Operating Systems, Server Platforms, Technology

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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

    Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    Richard Fichera, Dave Bartoletti, Henry Baltazar, Andre Kindness, Rachel A. DinesMay 08, 2013

    This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

    • Downloads: 205

  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Evaluate New Converged Infrastructures To Underpin The Software-Defined Data Center

    The Next Evolution Of IT Infrastructure For Supporting Fully Virtualized Environments Takes A Storage-Centric Approach

    Richard FicheraMarch 20, 2013

    The transformation of virtual computing environments into fully software-defined data centers is disrupting the architecture of the underlying physical infrastructure. The recent wave of converged...

    • Downloads: 295
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2013

    Richard FicheraMarch 08, 2013

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2013. As...

    • Downloads: 401
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:How Many Servers Can Dance On The Head Of An Administrator?

    Demystifying Support Ratios For Core Infrastructure

    Richard FicheraMarch 06, 2013

    How many servers can a single administrator manage? How many terabytes of storage can one admin handle? Answers to these support ratio questions are frequently sought by Forrester's infrastructure...

    • Downloads: 161
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:The Software-Defined Data Center Is The Future Of Infrastructure Architecture

    Vision: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    Richard FicheraNovember 12, 2012

    Over the last two decades, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have been in a race with complexity. As business requirements have mounted, generations of technology have been implemented to...

    • Downloads: 869
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Voice Of The Customer: The Good, The Bad, And The Unwieldy Of DCIM Deployments

    Customers Achieve ROI, But Configuration Is More Difficult Than Expected

    Richard FicheraNovember 02, 2012

    Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is rapidly emerging as a solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals improve data center operations and management. As...

    • Downloads: 126

  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Optimize IT Infrastructure Around Key Workloads

    Landscape: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    Richard Fichera, Andre Kindness, Dave Bartoletti, Glenn O'DonnellSeptember 07, 2012

    The inside-out approach of engineers focused on technology for its own sake must stop: Your business cares about outcomes and holistic services, not server, storage, and network technologies. For too...

    • Downloads: 494
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow IT Infrastructure Strategies

    Strategic Plan: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    Richard FicheraJune 28, 2012

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their IT infrastructure strategic plan for their facilities and the server, storage, and...

    • Downloads: 471
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Develop IT Infrastructure Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard

    Performance Management: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

    Richard FicheraJune 26, 2012

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics to measure yourIT infrastructure. The process of implementing a comprehensive and useful program of...

    • Downloads: 626
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Market Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions

    Maturing Solutions Allow Integrated Physical Management Of The Data Center

    Richard FicheraMarch 29, 2012

    This report is part of the data center infrastructure playbook and should be read by IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a...

    • Downloads: 799
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2012

    Continuation Of Old Trends And A Few Disruptions

    Richard FicheraFebruary 06, 2012

    This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2012. Looking at...

    • Downloads: 1112
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Oracle Versus HP: Customers Lose; Oracle And x86 Linux Vendors Win

    Oracle's Actions Punish Customers And Drive Migration To Linux

    Richard FicheraJanuary 03, 2012

    Vendor acquisitions and strategy shifts continue to disrupt the world of enterprise IT. Few, however, have been as disruptive and one-sided in their impact as the recent decision by Oracle to...

    • Downloads: 304
    • Comments: 1
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