
Brent Ellis
Principal Analyst
Brent leads Forrester’s technology resilience, storage, and mainframe modernization research. He helps technology leaders accelerate their high-performance IT journey with pragmatic approaches aligned to the needs of the business. His research spans many topics including skill evolutions (from administrators to site reliability engineers), backup and ransomware protection, integrated development approaches (applying DevOps to mainframe programs), optimizing storage for AI and hybrid cloud, public cloud resilience strategies, and best practices for cloud-native/Kubernetes storage and resilience. Brent’s guidance has been quoted in the press, including publications such as CIO Dive, TechTarget, CIO.com, and StateTech Magazine.


