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Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers

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Jean S. Bozman is a well-respected IT professional with more than 20 years of experience covering the worldwide markets for operating environments, servers and the workloads that run on servers. Ms. Bozman began her career at IDC in 1996, focusing on the worldwide market for server operating systems. In her current role as research vice president in IDC's Enterprise Server Group, she analyzes the worldwide server market and she manages the Clustering and Availability Software (CLAS) market research for IDC. Ms. Bozman is widely quoted in business publications, including BusinessWeek and Investors Business Daily; in daily newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and Los Angeles Times; and in online publications, such as CNET (news.com), Bloomberg and Reuters.



Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Bozman was an editor at Computerworld. She started Computerworld's Chicago Bureau in 1987, initiating Computerworld's coverage in the Midwest, and she moved to California as the publication's Senior West Coast Editor in 1989, covering the open-systems market. Ms. Bozman holds a B.S. in earth and space sciences from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and a master's degree from Stanford University.

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HP Reorganizes Server Product Groups for Greater Focus, Speed to Market
Jean S. Bozman, Crawford Del Prete, Jed Scaramella
May 2013 - Doc # lcUS24098113      IDC Link
On April 29, 2013, HP released a series of announcements regarding the organization of its enterprise product groups. The moves resulted in the combination of HP's Business Critical Systems (BCS) and Industry Standard Servers and Software ( ...
Symantec's Availability, Replication, and Data Protection Software to Get Closer in Next-Gen Business Continuity Platform
Jean S. Bozman, Ashish Nadkarni, Laura DuBois
Apr 2013 - Doc # lcUS24088813      IDC Link
Three months after Symantec launched its Symantec 4.0 strategy, reorganizing the company and its product offerings, its Vision conference showed how its next-generation business continuity offerings are taking shape.Shipment of an integrate ...

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Worldwide Availability and Clustering Software 2012 Vendor Shares: Supporting Availability in the Virtualized Computing World
Jean S. Bozman
May 2013 - Doc # 241320      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the worldwide availability and clustering software market for the period from 2010 to 2012.: "The Americas region was the largest geographic region for ACS revenue at 53.3% of worldwide revenue," said Jean S. ...
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Worldwide Availability and Clustering Software 2013–2017 Forecast: HA Software Is Holding Steady
Jean S. Bozman
May 2013 - Doc # 241224      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides a sizing of the worldwide availability and clustering software (ACS) market in 2012 and it includes a 2013–2017 forecast for this market. : "The five-year compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) for ACS in the y ...
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Appearances

Predictions 2013: Enterprise Servers
Framingham, MA United States
February 12, 2013

IDC Predictions 2013: System Infrastructure Software
Framingham, MA United States
December 13, 2012

Moving Beyond Just Defining Big Data: Considerations for Successful Big Data Deployments
Framingham, MA United States
May 10, 2012