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Vernon Turner
Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom Research
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Vernon Turner, Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom research, is responsible for worldwide enterprise research in the areas of technical computing, enterprise platforms, system infrastructure 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’s areas of expertise include enterprise computer and storage relationships, technology recovery and capacity planning, performance management and end-user perspectives. He has helped to drive research on the evolution of the next generation Internet Infrastructure including grid computing, service centric IT infrastructures, utility computing solutions, processors and modular server designs. In addition he has worked with several industry customer councils in an advisory role on server network and storage architectures to take advantages of initiatives such as IT Consolidation. Mr. Turner has a strong background in the technology requirements of the finance and banking communities and comments frequently on high availability and disaster recovery requirements for mission critical workloads. 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 hardware technology (tape, disk, server, print) across a multi-data center environment. He held similar responsibilities at Fidelity Investments.
Mr. Turner holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and a Computer Science undergraduate degree from Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England.
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IDC Predictions 2010: Recovery and Transformation
Frank Gens, Cushing Anderson, Irene Berlinsky, Raymond Boggs, Angèle Boyd, Jean S. Bozman, Jeanne Capachin, Godfrey Chua, Matt Davis, Crawford Del Prete, Stephen D. Drake, Scott Ellison, Robert Farish, Michael Fauscette, Susan Feldman, Steven J. Frantzen, John F. Gantz, Tim Grieser, Greg Ireland, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Gary Koch, Danielle Levitas, Amy Lind, Ramon T. Llamas, Scott Lundstrom, Robert P. Mahowald, Stephen Minton, Masaaki Moriyama, Chris Morris, Henry D. Morris, Courtney Munroe, Tomoaki Nakamura, Rick Nicholson, Bob O'Donnell, David Potterton, Eric A. Prothero, Joseph C. Pucciarelli, Bill Roch, Junichi Saeki, William Stofega, David Tapper, Vernon Turner, Richard Vancil, Richard L. Villars, Ricardo Villate, Hideo Wada, Mark Walker, Janet Waxman, Karsten Weide, Meredith Whalen, Mark Winther
Dec 2009 - Doc # TB20091203
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IDC's annual predictions offer an important preview of the industry events, user trends, and vendor strategies that promise to define the IT industry in the year ahead. Drawing on IDC's industry-defining research and fresh insi ...
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