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Eric Sheppard
Research Director, Storage Software

Team: Storage
Eric Sheppard is a Research Director within IDC’s Storage Software Program where he personally covers the Storage Replication and Storage Management Software market segments. Eric’s current support of IDC’s Worldwide Storage Software Trackers and Qviews coupled with his extensive international storage market experiences gives him a unique understanding of the many market forces affecting the storage software market. In addition to these responsibilities, Eric frequently contributes to primary research and custom storage software projects and regularly presents market trends at industry events.

Prior to his current role, Eric spent seven years working at IDC's London, England office where he managed IDC’s European storage hardware research programs. His research responsibilities, during this time, spanned 16 Western European countries and included disk storage systems, tape libraries, SAN infrastructure and hard disk drive markets. Eric’s broad understanding of Europe’s multifaceted storage market made him a sought-after analyst within the market and was a regular presenter at many EMEA storage events.

Before joining IDC UK, Eric spent four years as an analyst within IDC's worldwide Storage Systems research team, where he contributed regularly to analysis of the worldwide disk systems market and helped to launch IDC’s successful Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. During this time, Eric was also the principal analyst responsible for the data collection and analysis of the worldwide SAN infrastructure markets.

Eric Sheppard holds a BA in marketing from Fitchburg State College.


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Move Over SDS and SDN, Here Comes SDSN — Jeda Networks Announces a Software-Defined Storage Networking Solution
Ashish Nadkarni, Eric Sheppard
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS23996313      IDC Link
The nirvana of a software-defined data center is a full suite of software-defined compute, networking, and storage stacks. Similar to the hardware stack that today's data center infrastructure is based on, software-defined data center stack ...
Veeam Launches Backup & Replication Cloud Edition; Brings Data Protection and the Cloud Closer to Each Other
Ashish Nadkarni, Eric Sheppard, Robert Amatruda
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcUS23945113      IDC Link
On February 11, 2013, Veeam announced a new offering to its data protection suite, the Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition.Businesses of all sizes have long ago integrated the use of disk into their data protection and recovery process ...

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EMC ViPR: An Approach to Software-Based Storage
Ashish Nadkarni, Laura DuBois, Eric Sheppard, Dan Iacono
May 2013 - Doc # 241265      Technology Assessment
This IDC study reviews ViPR — a software-based (-defined) storage solution from EMC. ViPR conforms to IDC's definition of software-based storage.: "As more storage suppliers release solutions like ViPR, IDC expects to evaluate their ...
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EMC World 2013 Unveils the ViPR Initiative and Highlights the Pivotal Business
Laura DuBois, Ashish Nadkarni, Eric Sheppard, Dan Iacono, Paul Hughes
May 2013 - Doc # 241242      Insight
This IDC Insight looks at the EMC World 2013 event, announcements, and their impact on the enterprise storage market.

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Appearances

Storage Industry Transformation: Convergence, Cloud and Scale-Out
Framingham, MA United States
January 29, 2013