Analyst Biographies

Gary Burgess

Senior Vice President and Senior Analyst – IT Infrastructure Support Services Research

Gary Burgess, Senior Vice President and Senior Analyst, specializes in IT Infrastructure Support Services research for the North American and Asia Pacific marketplaces. Gary is the lead analyst for the CPService module of Competitive Profiles, a comprehensive web-based tool that details the features and pricing characteristics of server and storage infrastructure services, focusing on hardware maintenance, software support, mission-critical services, and installation services.... Full PDF profile »

Jim Burton

Vice President and Senior Analyst – Entry Servers Research

Jim Burton, Vice President and Senior Analyst, specializes in Servers research. Throughout his career in the analyst industry, Jim has been involved in various initiatives covering microarchitectures, system architectures, high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out computing, systems management, and corporate strategies. At Ideas International, he examines platform strengths, weaknesses, and pricing, determining which systems are best suited for specific deployments.... Full PDF profile »

Peter Cullen

Senior Vice President  –  Information Services 

After a lengthy association as an Ideas International subscriber, Peter Cullen joined IDEAS in 1999 to manage a new research service. From this role, Peter progressed to managing the analyst team at IDEAS, and now heads up the global Information Services group within IDEAS. In this role, Peter’s primary responsibility is managing the content and development of IDEAS’s Competitive Profiles product.... Full PDF profile »

Andrew Dun

Senior Analyst – Server Information Services

Andrew Dun, Senior Analyst, oversees server and workstation research for Ideas International’s Competitive Profiles product. He is also the principal server analyst for IDEAS in the Asia Pacific region.... Full PDF profile »

Tony Iams

Vice President and Senior Analyst – System Software Research

Tony Iams, VP and Senior Analyst, manages Ideas International’s System Software research program. Tony focuses on evaluating and contrasting the features and functions of the leading operating system and virtualization technologies in use today.... Full PDF profile »

Walter (Wally) Katz

Vice President and Senior Analyst – Information Services

Walter Katz, Vice President and Senior Analyst, Information Services, manages the EMEA-based content of the CPService module of Ideas International’s Competitive Profiles product. The CPService module provides cost of ownership and services analysis of server, workstation, and storage products. Wally is also responsible for developing and extending the IDEAS server performance metrics used for price/performance positioning throughout IDEAS’s research deliverables and within its server consolidation tool.... Full PDF profile »

Christian (Chris) Ober

Vice President and Senior Analyst – Storage Information Services

Chris Ober, Vice President and Senior Analyst, specializes in Storage and SAN research. He heads up the Competitive Profiles CPStorage research program, with responsibility for both North American and Asia/Pacific regional coverage of disk, NAS, and tape subsystems, as well as storage software and SAN connectivity products....
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Richard (Rich) Partridge

Vice President and Senior Analyst – Server Research

Richard Partridge, Vice President and Senior Analyst, brings two decades of server hardware development experience to his analysis of midrange and enterprise-level systems. Rich leads Ideas International’s Enterprise Servers service, evaluating architectures, performance, and pricing of a wide range of hardware and software products, from microprocessors to massively parallel servers.... Full PDF profile »