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Doug serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He leads a research team of analysts responsible for delivering research and consulting solutions to address clients' most pressing challenges in: data center — consolidating, converging, and optimizing server, storage, and networks, private and public cloud computing, and build versus buy facilities decisions; end user computing — provisioning, managing, and virtualizing desktop and mobile devices, unified communications, and branch office networking; IT operations and resiliency environments — IT service management, IT infrastructure library (ITIL) best practices, end-to-end monitoring, automation, disaster recovery, high availability, and backup; and organizational maturity — organizational design, metrics, strategic rightsourcing, innovation, and customer-centricity.
Previously at Forrester, Doug was a principal analyst on the Infrastructure & Operations research team focused on sustainable (or green) IT trends, planning, strategy, and best practices, as well as key IT infrastructure and operations priorities and infrastructure assessments.
Prior to joining the Infrastructure & Operations research team, Doug was the global council manager for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best-practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised and facilitated peer-to-peer interactions with clients on their strategies, priorities, and best practices. Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council.
Prior to Forrester, Doug lived and worked in Australia and France as the vice president of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup, serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
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How Interactive Marketers Should Tap Twitter For Real Business Results
With Twitter's usage numbers ballooning and its recent announcement of brand pages, interactive marketers are paying attention. Recognizing its potential across the marketing mix, many have already...

Larry: Excellent summary of the ESB world! Let me however add that we found the requirement to have full and complete control over METADATA in our applications and the available ESB products did not...
Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual
All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...

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US Consumers Rate Firms' Web, Phone, And Store Interactions
We asked nearly 5,000 US consumers about their satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person experiences across nine different industries: banks, credit card providers, health plans, insurance firms,...
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The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...
Best Practices For IT Steering Committees
IT capabilities are increasingly embedded in the core business processes of organizations today, and for a growing number of organizations, they are also enabling new products and services and...
When building their green IT strategy, Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) clients look for insight from multiple sources — including their peers. Forrester analyzed 146 green...
Field Marketing's Eyes And Ears Complement Sales' Feet On The Street
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I attended SAP Insider’s five-part conference -- covering Logistics & Supply Chain Management, PLM, Manufacturing, CRM, and Procurement & Materials Management -- and got a chance to catch up...
Gene - This document serves as crystal clear guidance on where enterprise architects need to focus their deliverable development efforts. This counsel will be prove highly beneficial to enterprise...