Stephanie BalaourasPrincipal Analyst
Backup & Recovery, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Computer Architectures, Data Archiving, Data Center Management, Data Protection, High Availability/Fault Tolerance, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Storage & Data Management
Stephanie primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals. She is a leading expert in how companies build resilient IT infrastructures to support key business initiatives. During her three years with Forrester, Stephanie has been instrumental in the development of Forrester's research and offerings in business continuity, disaster recovery, and information storage and protection. Her research focuses on the strategies, processes, and organizational structures required to govern continuity programs, as well as the technologies and services for high availability, next-generation backup, and disaster recovery.
Stephanie has more than 10 years experience with technology for information storage, information protection, and disaster recovery. Prior to joining Forrester, Stephanie was a senior analyst with Yankee Group, where she provided insight on technology trends to key system, storage, and information protection vendors and consultative advice on strategic and tactical initiatives. Before Yankee Group, Stephanie worked at EMC, first as a technical architect and then as a senior education and productivity consultant. As a technical architect, she articulated EMC's value to partners and customers and architected solutions to meet customer and new market opportunities. As an education and productivity consultant, she managed and supported complex technical training programs for business and practice managers in EMC's Technology Solutions Group. Prior to EMC, Stephanie worked at Accenture as a consultant focused on the implementation of business applications (SAP, PeopleSoft) for global businesses.
Stephanie holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and finance and investments from Babson College.
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