Jean-Pierre GarbaniVice President, Principal Analyst
B2B Sales & Marketing, Business Service Management, Capacity Modeling & Planning, Data Center Management, Go-To-Market Strategies, IT Infrastructure & Operations, IT Management, IT Management Software, IT Organization, IT Process Automation, ITIL, Job Scheduling & Workload Management, Organizational Design & Change Management, Product & Solutions Strategies, Telecommunications Services
J.P. serves Vendor Strategy professionals. He has acquired several decades of experience as an IT technology designer and marketer as well as a client of IT technology. He has broad experience in designing advanced technology solutions in industrial and commercial applications and bringing them to market.
Over the past years, J.P. has written extensively on technology for several business publications and has focused on innovations in IT management software and in IT operations. J.P. is often a featured speaker in vendor-sponsored events and Webinars.
J.P. came to Forrester through the acquisition of Giga Information Group, where he was the research director of the computing infrastructure group. J.P. started his IT career in early 1968 as a software engineer working on the automation of nuclear power plants in France. J.P. then joined Bull General Electric in Paris (subsequently Honeywell Bull) where he was a designer and project leader of very large network infrastructures in France, Scandinavia, and the US. At Bull, J.P. occupied several positions in engineering, marketing, and sales. J.P. moved to the US in 1984 and filled several engineering and marketing positions with Bull Information Systems. In 1994, J.P. created Epitome Technology Corporation, a middleware software company focused on manufacturing execution systems. Prior to joining Giga, J.P. worked as an IT management consultant for several large financial institutions in the US.
J.P. graduated from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec) in Paris (M.S. in computer science). J.P. is a US citizen based in Naples, Fla., and speaks French fluently.
Vendors Beware: Virtualization, PaaS, And SaaS Are Changing The Capacity Management Tools Market November 10, 2009 BookmarkPDF
Market Overview: Workload Automation, Q3 2009 November 09, 2009 BookmarkPDF
The IT Management Software Challengers October 26, 2009 BookmarkPDF
Tech Horizons: OpTier, A Step Toward Business Service Management (BSM) 2.0 October 05, 2009 BookmarkPDF
The IT Management Software Megavendors August 12, 2009 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
The New Capacity Management Process December 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
The IT Enterprise: Evolution Of IT Organizations December 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
The Evolution Of The ITMS Market: 2010 And Beyond December 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
J.P. enjoys flying and is a private pilot. He also likes racing cars, antique cars, and rugby.
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