Analyst Profile: Vernon Turner

Analyst Profile

Vernon Turner
Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, Network, Telecom and Sustainability Research

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Vernon Turner, Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, Network, Telecom and Sustainability research groups. He is responsible for worldwide research in the areas of technical computing, enterprise platforms, system management software, network infrastructure, security, storage, enabling technologies (including semiconductors), document solutions and valuation (pricing/leasing). He also oversees the small/medium business and hardware channels/alliances practices as well as IDC's wide-ranging consumer and telecommunications research. Mr. Turner advises IDC clients on the competitive, managerial, technological, integration and implementation issues for complete systems environments.

Mr. Turner has helped to drive research on the evolution of the next-generation Internet Infrastructure including cloud computing, converged IT infrastructures, micro-processors and modular server and datacenter designs. Mr. Turner has recently created IDC's leading G20-nations ICT Sustainability Index and is currently working on the impact of cloud computing on carbon reduction and energy savings. Mr. Turner has a strong CIO-supported background in the technology requirements of the finance and banking communities. Finally, Mr. Turner is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and Financial Times as well as commenting on technology showcases for CNBC, CNNfn, and international media outlets.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Turner was Vice President, Technology Services, with State Street Bank in Boston where he managed the deployment of ICT across a multi-data center environment. He held similar responsibilities at Fidelity Investments.

Mr. Turner holds degrees from Babson College and Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England.

IDC Links

Cisco Reports Third-Quarter Earnings — Watching a Well-Oiled Machine Work
Vernon Turner
May 2013 - Doc # lcUS24114213 IDC Link

On May 15, 2013, Cisco Systems announced their third-quarter earnings, with records being set in several places. The company's highlights included:Net sales of $12.2 billion (GAAP) for the quarter, up 5% year over yearNet income (GAAP) of $ ...

Huawei's Efforts to "Make It Possible" in the Enterprise
Vernon Turner, Matthew Eastwood, Rohit Mehra
May 2013 - Doc # lcUS24106613 IDC Link

Shenzhen, April 23, 2013: At Huawei's Global Analyst Summit, Huawei's executives outlined their strategy to "make it possible." The following is IDC's enterprise view of what we learned from that event. Today’s enterprise IT organization is ...

Analyst Research

Three Essential Priorities for Datacenter Management
Vernon Turner
May 2013 - Doc # 241078 Industry Development and Models

This IDC study outlines some of the challenges and opportunities for those who build, create, and manage the datacenter staffing organization, outlining the new and redundant services that they will be asked to establish or discard. With ...

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Directions 2012 Tokyo：センサーからスーパーコン第3のITプラットフォーム構築に必要なもの
Vernon Turner
Aug 2012 - Doc # J12990174 Event Proceeding

The content of this document was written in Japanese: 本Event Proceedingは米国IDC シニアバイスプレジデントであるVernon Turnerによる講演の内容をプレゼンテーションスライドと音声ファイルにより提供するものである。: IDCの定義する第3のITプラットフォームとは、今日から2025年までの間、IT業界が成長していく新たな土俵です。基調講演の最後にあたる本講演では、第3 ...