Dana Gardner

Dana Gardner

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Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opp…ortunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years.Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include Enterprise 2.0 and social media, cloud standards and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques.Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News.

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, LLC, a New Hampshire-based IT analysis and new media content production and consultancy firm that he founded in 2005. He produces a series of podcast/videocast/transcript/blog content shows, called BriefingsDirect[tm/sm], some of which are sponsored and which he blogs on. Such sponsored shows are declared individually as such and by what organization or company. When Dana blogs on ZDNet on companies that he does have, or has had, consulting and/or sponsorship relationships, he declares that in each blog entry. There is no connection between the negotiation of such sponsorships and the opinions expressed by Dana here on ZDNet. The following organizations/companies are active sponsors, or have consulting relationships with Dana: Ariba/SAP, Akamai Technologies, BMC Software, Dell Software, Embarcadero Technologies, GigaOM Research, Hewlett-Packard, Kapow Software, The Open Group, VMware, and Workday. As a matter of CNET Networks and Interarbor Solutions policies, when Dana covers an organization that is also a sponsor of a BriefingsDirect-produced podcast, videocast or any other content, a disclosure will be included with the coverage. Updated (4/11/2013): Instead of providing a disclosure on just those editorials (blog posts, etc.) that intersect the above listed companies, we have changed the policy to include a link to this full disclosure at the end of every one of Dana's blog posts. In the case of audio or video-based coverage, such disclosures will be provided within the editorial content itself.

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Interact with HP experts on latest cloud-enablement strategies at Feb. 29 online event

CIOs will need to measure and integrate all those services at some time into a managed hybrid computing data center environment.

February 21, 2012 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

EMC's Hadoop strategy cuts to the chase

Analyst Tony Baer examines the Hadoop landscape and explores EMC's latest big-data move

February 1, 2012 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

Expert Chat on how HP ecosystem provides holistic support for VMware virtualized IT environments

Successful virtualization is no longer just about servers, it’s about managing complexity when you get beyond the 20 percent or 30 percent level and expand into converged infrastructure virtualization without failures.

January 19, 2012 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

SAP runs VMware to provision private clouds that support complex and critical training applications

In this specific cloud, typically we have between a couple of hundred and a couple of thousand VMs running. Overall, at SAP we're running more than 20,000 virtual machines (VMs). And, in fact, I have about 25 private cloud installations.

December 20, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

Register now to hear HP experts on latest support strategies for unique challenges of virtualized and cloud environments

While the technology to support and fix these virtualized environments is essential, the people, skills and knowledge to manage these systems are perhaps the most decisive elements.

November 28, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

Case study: CharterCARE Health Partners leverages cloud and VDI to aid digital records management, security, regulatory compliance

The tag team of private cloud and VDI has provided better data management, security, reliability, and regulatory auditing capabilities. The successful infrastructure modernization effort has also helped CharterCARE move to electronic health records and has helped improve their processes for clinicians.

September 27, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

NYSE Euronext builds hybrid cloud with a difference (VMworld Case Study)

The technologies that we used to make sure that we were the leader in the marketplace in terms of trading technology and all the infrastructure to support that, that's also what we're offering our customers.

August 29, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

Case Study: T-Mobile's massive data center transformation journey wins award using HP ALM tools

We actually got to do the performance testing live in the performance environments. We had to scale up to real performance types of loads and found some real issues that -- instead of the customers facing them, they didn’t have to.

July 6, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

Discover Case Study: Holistic ALM helps Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida break down application inefficiencies, redundancy

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has been able to improve their applications' performance -- and even change the culture of how they test, provide, and operate their applications.

June 17, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

HP at Discover releases converged infrastructure products and services aimed at helping IT migrate rapidly to the future

To help mobilize IT for the new order, HP today at HP Discover announced several Converged Infrastructure solutions that improve enterprise agility by simplifying deployment and speeding IT delivery.

June 6, 2011 by Dana Gardner in Hardware

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