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New York – July 28, 2009 – TheInfoPro, an independent research company for the IT industry, announced today new findings from its Information Security Study that point to application security as a key concern and priority for …

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29 August 2009 – What I hear most of fellow bloggers amongst the IT industry is a lack of ability to come up with consistent and fresh ideas. Content that really resonates and educates people. Furthermore, there’s usually a lack of “take away” for a large enough audience and here’s where bloggers end up repurposing information time and time again.

TheInfoPro wants to hear from you:
High level framework ideas and approaches are what we hear about most in our daily dialogue with the Global 2000. My goal is to update the market on a regular basis about what we are seeing first hand the IT Infrastructure evolve by leveraging the fundamental research TheInfoPro produces on the Storage, Servers, Networking & Information Security sectors.  The intelligence we capture spans: technology adoption, vendor preferences, budget data and organizational dynamics.

Here are a few ideas on future blog postings – I’d love to get your thoughts on what is the most relevant to you today and how we can provide more information in a timely manner:

1. Management Tools and Platforms – This is one the biggest challenges we see with all phases of the move but  especially in Phases I  & III. SLAs, Provisioning, Life Cycle Management, the role of Network Services – all come into play here and will be a key battleground for the vendors.
2. Vendor Landscape – Cisco, EMC, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Juniper, BMC, VMware, Red Hat, Citrix, BMC, CA – the list is long and includes many smaller vendors that have pieces of a solution- how will the vendor landscape pan out? And where might we see more M&A activity?
3. When to integrate the workplace vis a vis desktop  virtualization / thin client and what will that do to bandwidth requirements to ensure the proper performance
4. Organizational dynamics – where is the orchestration coming from? Networking teams are appearing more influential in the Storage decisions and the move to Server Virtualization gives the Server team more clout.  Is there an “Office of Virtualization” emerging inside the IT organization? Are Business Unit s going to be driving more of the moves discussed taking the decisions out of the IT organization?
5. The Operating System (OS) as we know it today, how will it evolve ? Windows, Unix, Linux  roadmaps, VMware as an OS. How much OS kernel  is needed in the evolving  “Virtual Application” ?
6. Security –  Access Control, Application Firewalls – the move to the Virtualized  platforms and Cloud pose significant security risks
7. New technologies & functionality – Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Solid State Disk (SSD), hybrid platforms of Network & Host devices, WAN Acceleration and many others come to play in the evolution of IT Infrastructure what is the realistic timeframe for their adoption and which vendors will benefit from the moves.
8. Budget Outlooks – when will IT Infrastructure spend pick up to help gauge pace of adoption and investments in the phases we have discussed.

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19 August 2009 – In our work on with clients in the G2000 we see first hand how the IT Infrastructure is evolving and how companies are trying to lay out a plan for implementing the moniker being dubbed “internal or private cloud” platforms. It seems like a long road before large enterprises will ever consider moving to external cloud providers however there is merit to what the external providers can/will provide from a disaster recovery, replication and potential federated approach for extra capacity on demand. …

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TheInfoPro is an up-and-coming technology advisory company looking to hire a full-time market research specialist. The market research specialist will work within a team environment to create research instruments, tabulate and report on the collected quantitative data. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Prepare tables, charts and graphs to be analyzed and included in reports
• Maintain data integrity and perform quality control for all questionnaires and deliverables
• Create and manage surveys
• Identify needed process improvements and automation initiatives, assisting with implementation when possible
• Merge and interpret multiple large data sets

Skills and Requirements:

• Thorough knowledge of questionnaire research design and methodology, and working knowledge of multivariate statistics
• Demonstrable skills using SPSS Statistics, including writing syntax and reporting scripts
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills are required
• Experience with SPSS Data Collection (PASW), SAS or E-tabs is a plus
• Ability to work autonomously and solve day-to-day project-related issues with minimal supervision

To be considered for this position, please send your resume, cover letter and wage requirements to careers@theinfopro.com.  Applicants who are contacted for an interview may be asked to take a brief test of their ability to use SPSS.

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