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Frank Gens
Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst

Team: Cloud Computing
Dynamic IT
eBusiness Strategies
IDC Predictions Team
Infrastructure
IT Professional Strategies
Security and Business Continuity
As IDC's Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst, Frank Gens guides IDC's research into broad IT industry trends, particularly the strategic adoption of technology by Global 2000 businesses and the industries in which they compete.

Mr. Gens is the producer of IDC eXchange (http://blogs.idc.com/ie), IDC’s blog and podcast on the state and future of the IT industry, and is a frequent speaker at executive forums around the world. He is the author of IDC Predictions, the company's annual forecast of major changes in the global development and use of technology. Mr. Gens is a member of IDC's worldwide management team, a lead developer of IDC's global research architecture, and a member of IDC's Research Quality Board.

Mr. Gens is a 25 year veteran of the IT research and advisory services business, including over 15 years at IDC in a variety of senior roles, including leading IDC's end-user research business and developing IDC's global Internet research capabilities. He is well-known for his provocative and accurate forecasts of IT industry change, and the impact of those changes on business and industry.

In addition to research management roles, Mr. Gens' career includes senior positions in new product development and introduction, product management, marketing, business development, corporate development, and regional operations management. Prior to IDC, Mr. Gens held management positions at International Data Group (IDG), AMR Research and The Yankee Group.

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A Look Back at IBM's 2Q Earnings — Consistent Earnings Growth Despite a Slow Recovery
Frank Gens
Aug 2010 - Doc # lcUS22456810      IDC Link
 IBM'ssecond-quarter earnings delivered what we've come to expect from the company during the last couple of years — double-digit earnings per share growth in spite of economy-hampered, modest single-digit revenue growth.Overall, revenues i ...
IBM 4Q09 Results: Predictability and Profitability Formula Continues to Pay Off
Frank Gens
Jan 2010 - Doc # lcUS22175010      IDC Link
IBM announced their fourth quarter and full year financial results yesterday. Here are key fourth quarter data points from IBM's release (full release):Revenue of $27.2 billion, up 1% (down 5% in constant currency)Net income of $4.8 billion ...

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Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2010–2014 Forecast
Frank Gens, Robert P. Mahowald, Richard L. Villars, John F. Gantz, Henry D. Morris, Stephen D. Hendrick, Mary Johnston Turner, Rona Shuchat, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Matthew Eastwood, Chris Morris, Satoshi Matsumoto, Chris Ingle, David Bradshaw, Lidice Fernandez, Nigel Wallis, Vladimír Kroa
Jun 2010 - Doc # 223549      Market Analysis
This IDC study forecasts revenue growth from public IT cloud services through 2014, segmented by five functional categories within eight regions/countries. The forecast data, driven by IDC's key assumptions for public IT cloud services d ...
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The Maturing Cloud -- What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Cloud Economics
Amy Konary, Frank Gens
Apr 2010 - Doc # TB20100415      Event Proceeding
IDC research shows that the number 1 benefit customers expect from the adoption of cloud services is the ability to pay only for what they use. The advent of cloud computing has given rise to a number of pricing models that loo ...
Appearances

The Maturing Cloud -- What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Cloud Economics
Framingham, MA United States
April 15, 2010

The Maturing Cloud - What the Grateful Dead Can Teach Us About Cloud Economics
Burlingame, CA United States
April 06, 2010

IDC Predictions 2010: Recovery and Transformation
United States
December 03, 2009

IDC Cloud Computing Forum:
New York, NY United States
November 04, 2009

Cloud Computing 2010 - An IDC Update
Framingham, MA United States
September 29, 2009