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Meet Our Team

Mary Johnston Turner
Research Director, System Management Software

Christian A. Christiansen
Program Vice President, Security Products and Services

Michelle Bailey
Research Vice President, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends

Lucinda Borovick
Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks

Matt Healey
Research Manager, Software and Hardware Support Services

Al Gillen
Program Vice President, System Software

Gary Chen
Research Manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software

Richard L. Villars
Vice President, Storage Systems & Executive Strategies

Bob O'Donnell
Program VP, Clients and Displays

Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers

Michael Rose
Research Analyst

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ONGOING ANALYSIS

The days of virtualization being used only as a tactical tool to drive consolidation and higher system utilization are quickly ending. The use of virtualization has matured from simple partitioning and encapsulation to leveraging the mobility of virtual machines to improve management and operations of IT environments. Virtualization 2.0 includes a host of new use cases that range from high availability and disaster recovery to hosted clients and true utility computing. To view recently published virtualization research, please click here.