Contributors
A list of the analyst team which services Wikibon’s clients.
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David Vellante is a leading advocate for IT professionals and in late 2006, founded The Wikibon Project with other serial analysts who had worked at firms such as IDC, Gartner, Meta and Giga. Wikibon is the industry’s first true open source research and advisory community dedicated to the peer-based sharing of business technology knowledge. Vellante who serves as Wikibon’s CEO, spent fifteen years at International Data Corporation (IDC) where he led and helped build the company’s largest division from less than $5M to more than $50M in annual revenue. He served as a member of Computerworld’s Board of Directors and is an active member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Social Media Advisory Board.
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Dennis Martin champions Wikibon’s Performance Lab Portal. He is the founder and President of Demartek, which focuses on industry analysis and lab validation testing of server, network, storage and security technologies, for the small and medium business (SMB) environment and the large enterprise. Dennis has been a fixture in the IT industry for more than twenty-five years in engineering and marketing roles at numerous firms including StorageTek. He is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Windows NT User Group in Denver, and served as its President for its first six years, and was re-elected President of the Group in May 2008. Dennis has made numerous presentations at conferences and has authored many industry articles. Dennis is a Microsoft Storage MVP for calendar year 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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Nick Allen champions Wikibon’s Storage Networks Portal focusing on SAN, NAS, iSCSI, SAS, virtualization, consolidation and the emerging cloud computing model. Nick is formerly a Gartner Vice President and Director of the firm’s storage research. Over the past twenty years, Allen has earned a reputation as an advocate for IT management professionals and a leader in the application of technology to solve business problems. Allen is founder of the Tod Point Group, an IT and storage consultancy. Allen has published more than 500 articles and research notes pertaining to enterprise storage.
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Bill Mottram is the champion of Wikibon’s Sustainability Portal which focuses on energy efficiency in the data center. Bill also is a key member of Wikibon’s Conserve IT team which works directly with utilities such as the Pacific Gas & Electric Company to assist organizations in obtaining energy rebates. He is also the founder and managing partner of Veriductus Associates a high technology storage industry and marketing consultancy. Mottram is an executive with a 25+ year career working with companies such as Compaq, HP, StorageTek , Pillar Data Systems and COPAN Systems. Throughout his career, he has been an innovation and marketing leader responsible for the development and market introduction of a number of unique and highly successful data storage solutions.
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Gary MacFadden Email Gary Gary has recently joined the Wikibon team and will be shepherding the Information Management Portal. He is an 18 year veteran of the IT Research and Analysis industry including business development, marketing, sales, consulting and research roles at IDC (Energy Insights), META Group and Giga Information Group. Gary also co-founded Robert Frances Group. Gary has worked extensively with users in various industries, most notably banking, to help companies collaborate through peer interaction and sharing information to foster their understanding of how technology can enable businesses to lower cost and reduce risk.
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David Floyer is Wikibon’s resident CTO. He heads up the Wikibon Energy Lab, an innovative service to help suppliers of efficient IT equipment obtain cash rebates for their customers from utility companies such as the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Floyer spent more than twenty years at IBM holding positions in research, sales, marketing, systems analysis and running IT operations for IBM France. He directly worked with IBM’s largest European customers including BMW, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lloyd’s Bank. Floyer was a Research Vice President at International Data Corporation (IDC) and is a recognized expert in IT strategy, economic value justification, systems architecture, performance, clustering, and systems software.
Ralph Finos
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Ralph Finos, Ph.D. is an innovative IT industry market research consultant and practice leader who helps companies create better products, understand their customers and prospects, and improve their planning. With 20+ years designing and executing strategic projects for IT companies, Finos is experienced in applying the right methodology and approach to solve challenging market research problems. His style is to complement industry knowledge and research know-how with hands-on management and continuous communication and collaboration with clients throughout an engagement. Dr. Finos has worked with leading IT industry companies including IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, and Microsoft.
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