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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.
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,...

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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Microsoft's SQL Server native auditing solution is basic, but it's free. It offers a good level of support for monitoring user and DBA activity, but lags in policy management, reporting, monitoring...
Guardium And Imperva Lead; Tizor, Application Security, And Lumigent Follow Closely; Oracle Tops Native Auditing
Forrester's evaluation of leading enterprise database auditing and real-time protection vendors across 116 criteria found Guardium and Imperva to have established leadership positions thanks to their...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Guardium is a Leader across the board in our evaluation of enterprise database auditing and real-time protection, a result of the broad range of features and functionality built into the product and...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Sybase's native database auditing solution is basic, which is why Sybase itself recommends that customers with advanced auditing requirements use third-party vendor solutions. In fact, Sybase resells...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Imperva is a Leader with a strong performing and scalable auditing solution that scored high in most areas that we evaluated. Imperva has strong support for audit and compliance reporting, end-to-end...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Oracle is a Strong Performer across the board in our evaluation, and tops the native DBMS auditing solutions. Oracle is the technology leader when it comes to databases, and Oracle gives database...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
What a difference 24 months make. Prior to October 2005, Embarcadero never had a database auditing solution, but the acquisition of Ambeo put it on the map. Although Embarcadero's DSAuditor does not...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM DB2 native auditing provides basic-level auditing at no additional product cost. Although DB2 native auditing offers some level of support for auditing users and DBA activity as well as database...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Lumigent's Leader position was no surprise given that it offers a comprehensive audit solution that meets a broad range of customers' requirements. Lumigent is one of the few vendors we evaluated...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
RippleTech's Informant solution is a Strong Performer in the enterprise database auditing market because it offers good features and functionality at an attractive price. It has strong support for...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM acquired the privately-held company Consul Risk Management in December 2006. With this acquisition, IBM got a database auditing tool called Consul InSight, recently rebranded Tivoli Compliance...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Tizor Systems is a Leader in the enterprise database auditing and real-time protection market because it provides strong support for alerting, audit and compliance reporting, performance, policy...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Application Security surprised us by taking a Leader's position in database auditing and real-time protection because it also offers other database security solutions like encryption, vulnerability...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM DB2 Audit Management Expert (AME) currently supports only the mainframe environment, with support for other platforms planned for the future. Overall, AME offers basic support for reporting,...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Although Symantec Database Security (SDS) is a late arrival to the database security game, it has done extremely well to gain a spot in the Strong Performer's category within a year after its general...
Although database management system (DBMS) technology continues to advance, huge databases driven by enormous data volume growth are bringing major challenges in manageability, performance,...
Focus Shifting To Centralized, Integrated, And Heterogeneous Management
With DBMS products becoming more automated and self-managing, one would think that the market for a comprehensive DBMS management solution would decline. But this has not been the case: The DBMS...
Over the past few years, regulatory compliance requirements and increasing security breaches have put significant pressure on enterprises to take stronger data security measures. Today, basic...