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	Christopher Voce Principal Analyst & Research Director

Research Coverage

Client Computing Hardware, Cloud Computing, Collaboration Platforms, Computer Architectures, Enterprise Collaboration, Enterprise Mobility, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Information & Knowledge Management, License Management, Server Virtualization, Systems Management

Research Focus

Chris serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, providing insight into how trends like cloud and virtualization have an impact on best practices and IT strategy. He has written extensively on how cloud services affect how IT pros deliver email and collaboration services to their employees. Chris focuses on supporting the purchasing and architectural decisions that affect Microsoft-based client and server platforms and Microsoft-based collaboration infrastructures. He helps Forrester's IT clients make technology implementation decisions and negotiate Microsoft software licensing agreements.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to rejoining Forrester in 2006, Chris was a technology and systems consultant, guiding small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in running their IT departments and managing and monitoring the stability, performance, and security of their server and network infrastructure. He planned and implemented client projects encompassing Microsoft licensing and other infrastructure purchases, large-scale Microsoft Active Directory domain migrations, messaging environments, regulatory compliance, multisite disaster recovery and replication, backups, and security. In his previous role at Forrester, he conducted both primary and secondary research to support competitive analyses on infrastructure technologies.

Chris also worked at Intel as a hardware engineer focusing on the design and testing of low-power processors.

Education

Christopher holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Lehigh University.

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