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Christopher Voce

Christopher Voce
Senior Analyst

Research Coverage

Application Management, B2B Sales & Marketing, Clustering, Computer Architectures, Data Center Management, IT Infrastructure & Operations, License Management, Server Hardware, Server Management, Server Operating Systems, Server Virtualization, Software Distribution, Systems Management, Systems Partitioning & Virtualization, X86 Servers

Research Focus

Chris serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals. He focuses on supporting server and data center infrastructure, the purchasing and architectural decisions that affect x86 servers, and Microsoft-based infrastructure environments. 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.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Building A Highly Available, Resilient SharePoint Infrastructure March 2010
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