Brent Ellis
Senior Analyst
Brent leads Forrester’s technology resilience, backup, storage, and mainframe modernization research. Brent helps technology leaders become adaptive, creative, and resilient with modern yet pragmatic approaches. His research spans skill evolutions (from administrators to site reliability engineers), full software-as-a-service backup protection, integrated development approaches (applying DevOps to mainframe programs), optimizing storage for AI, public cloud resilience strategies, and best practices for cloud-native/Kubernetes storage and resilience.