Anne Thomas Manes
Vice President and Research Director
Emphases:
XML, java, SOA, application servers, application security, web services
Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies.
She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems’s software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the “Power 100 IT Leaders,” by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide,” published by Addison-Wesley, 2003 and participated in Web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.
Bill Pray
Analyst
Emphases:
enterprise messaging, instant messaging, web conferencing, e-mail
Bill Pray is an analyst for Burton Group Collaboration and Content Strategies.
He covers enterprise messaging solutions – e-mail, calendars, instant messaging, web conferencing, etc. Prior to joining Burton Group, Bill was a product manager for LexisNexis Screening Solutions and Novell GroupWise. Bill’s experience also includes being an IT administrator, network operations center supervisor, records and communications manager and global support manager. Bill blogs at ccsblog.burtongroup.com and collaborateur.wordpress.com.
Bob Blakley
Vice President and Research Director
Emphases:
compliance, identity management, governance, authentication, privacy, cloud computing
Bob Blakley is Vice President and research director for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies.
He covers identity, privacy, security, authentication, and risk management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Bob was former chief scientist for security and privacy at IBM and served on the National Academy of Science’s study group on Authentication Technologies and Privacy Implications. Bob has served as general chair of the 2003 IEEE Security and Privacy Conference and as general chair of the New Security Paradigms Workshop. He is the former editor of the OMG CORBA security specification, and authored 'CORBA Security: An Introduction to Safe Computing with Objects,' published by Addison-Wesley. Bob is also editor of Open Group’s Authorization API specification effect and currently holds more than 10 patents on security-related technologies.
Chris Haddad
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
XML, J2EE, SOA, web services, open source, data integration, metadata management, REST, cloud computing
Chris Haddad is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies and Data Management Strategies.
He covers data integration, metadata management, J2EE, service-oriented architecture (SOA), software as a service, open source, integration, XML schema, .NET, WS-*, and model-driven development. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris led software teams on architecture, development, and transformation initiatives. His leadership roles span technical, product, and business process strategy including seven years as co-owner of a software company, three year leadership position at venture-backed software as a service company, and consulting director and delivery agent to Global 2000 enterprises and leading software vendors with focus areas of SOA, application architecture, middleware, and product/company strategy. With 17 years of experience, Chris has established software development, product direction, and integration strategy of several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002. He is a conference editorial board member, chair of special interest groups, and frequent speaker at Enterprise Architecture Summit, Interop, SOAWorld, JBossWorld, IASA, and SDWest.
Chris Howard
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
identity management, data management, enterprise 2.0, business process management, SOA, collaboration and content management, enterprise architecture, cloud computing
Chris Howard is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group Executive Advisory Program.
He covers multiple aspects of enterprise IT for an executive and business audience, including application and enterprise architecture, content and collaboration, data management, identity management, privacy, and cloud computing. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris was vice president of information delivery and payment systems at US Bank, with responsibility for .NET strategy and adoption, development frameworks, and emerging technology. As a Consultant his projects included extending and implementing the MIDI specification for the Roland Corporation, multimedia production, global project leadership and enterprise application design. With 18 years of experience, Chris is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences and universities including Cambridge, Harvard and Stanford Universities. He served as an industry advisor to the Microsoft Patterns and Practices community and listed in the Canadian Who’s Who since 1990 for his interdisciplinary achievements. Chris blogs at eapblog.burtongroup.com.
Chris Wolf
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
server virtualization, data center consolidation, data classification, disaster recovery, business continuity, storage virtualization, client virtualization
Chris Wolf is a senior analyst for Burton Group Data Center Strategies.
He covers server and client virtualization and data center consolidation, data protection, management and classification, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Prior to joining Burton Group, Chris was a nationally recognized independent consultant, the CIS department head at the ECPI College of Technology, and consultant with CommVault Systems. With 16 years of experience in virtualization, data protection and recovery, high availability, and enterprise storage management, Chris is an industry leader in virtualization coverage. Chris also authored Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise, the first book published on the topic. His virtualization presentations and workshops are consistently amongst the highest rated sessions at conferences in both the US and Europe.
Craig Roth
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
enterprise portals, collaborative applications, content management, content globalization
Craig Roth is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group Collaboration and Content Strategies.
He covers enterprise portals, content globalization, collaborative applications, and attention management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Craig performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held coding and management positions for executive information systems, call center systems, and advanced technology projects at a Fortune 500 financial services firm. With 20 years of IT industry experience, Craig’s research agenda focuses on the organizational, financial, and governance issues around knowledge and collaboration infrastructure with a special focus on enterprise portals, content globalization, and information overload. Craig was rated as a top 10 expert in portals and web services by an independent analyst rating firm. Craig is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and blogs at http://knowledgeforward.wordpress.com.
Dan Blum
Senior Vice President and Principal Analyst
Emphases:
security architecture, identity management, security technologies, federated identity, cloud computing
Daniel Blum is the Senior Vice President and principal analyst for Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies.
He covers security architecture, cloud computing security, endpoint security, identity management, federated identity, and other security technologies. Daniel has written hundreds of research papers or articles and consulted for many Global 1000 companies on key strategic architecture and technology decisions. He has participated in and contributed to industry organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), International Information Integrity Institute (I4), Internal Standards Organization (ISO), National Institute of Standards (NIST), Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Syntaxes (OASIS), and the Liberty Alliance. Daniel has co-authored The E-Mail Frontier, published by Addison-Wesley, 1994 and authored Understanding Microsoft Active Directory Service,” published by Microsoft press, 2000. He keynotes or speaks regularly at Burton Group Catalyst, RSA Security, InfoSecurity Europe, I4 Forums, NIST IDTrust, Open Group Security Practitioners, and Jericho Forum meetings as well as participating in many other industry conferences on a more occasional basis.
Drue Reeves
Vice President and Research Director
Emphases:
server virtualization, storage virtualization, server platforms and blades, data center power and cooling, server operating systems, virtualization, data center systems, cloud computing
Drue Reeves is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Data Center Strategies.
He covers server platforms and blades, storage virtualization, storage platforms and protocols, enterprise and system management, data center power and cooling. Prior to joining Burton Group, Drue was defining strategy for scalable enterprise architecture while part of Dell’s CTO office. With 16 years of experience in hardware and operating systems industry for Compaq/HP and Dell, Drue worked on the first ProLiant and ProSignia servers while a part of Compaq’s Industry Standards Server Group. Drue was the former chair of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) SMI-s working group and has several granted/pending patents in systems management, storage, virtualization, and identity management.
Eric Maiwald
Vice President and Research Director
Emphases:
enterprise security, network security, perimeter security, infrastructure protection, mobility and mobile security
Eric Maiwald is Vice President and research director for Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies.
He covers information security architecture, perimeter security, enterprise security management, infrastructure protection, and mobility and mobile security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Eric served as security officer and consultant for large financial institutions, healthcare providers, services firms, and manufacturers. With 20 years of experience, Eric is the inventor of several patents: Apparatus and Method for Providing Multi-level Security for Communications among Computers and Terminals on a Network, Apparatus and Method for Providing Network Security, and Method for Establishing Trust in a Computer Network via Association. Authored Network Security: A Beginner’s Guide, Security Planning and Disaster Recovery, (with William Sieglein); and Fundamentals of Network Security, all published by Osborne/McGraq-Hill.
Eric Siegel
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
web and network performance optimization, SLAs, network measurement and management, QoS
Eric Siegel, a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group, is a nationally-known authority on network performance optimization, measurement, management, SLAs, and QoS. He is the author of two acclaimed books, "Designing Quality of Service Solutions for the Enterprise" (John Wiley & Sons) and "Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services" (John McConnell with Eric Siegel; Cisco Press). A member of the Internet community since 1978, Mr. Siegel was the Principal Internet Consultant at Keynote Systems, where he specialized in Web performance measurement, and was a Senior Network Architect with Tandem Computers, where he was the technical leader and coordinator for all of Tandem's data communications specialists worldwide. Mr. Siegel also worked for Network Strategies and for the MITRE Corporation, specializing in computer network design and performance evaluation. He was an author of major portions of Burton Group’s original Reference Architecture, received his B.S. and M.Engr. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and was elected to the Electrical Engineering honor society.
Gene Ruth
Analyst
Emphases:
storage virtualization, storage platforms and protocol
Gene Ruth is an analyst for Burton Group Data Center Strategies.
He covers storage devices, platforms and protocols, storage virtualization, and storage management. Prior to joining Burton Group, Gene was a development manager and technical lead at IBM, focused on industry leading RAID and backup technologies resulting in the introduction of several leading edge products. Working for Dell in the storage business unit and office of the CTO, provided technical leadership for the introduction of the first Fibre based tape libraries by Dell, storage management applications, diagnostic packages and RAID array products. With 30 years of experience, Gene was involved and actively participating in the development of new storage management standards within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and was editor and lead for the CIM Operations Over SCSI specification at SNIA.
Guy Creese
Vice President and Research Director
Emphases:
content analytics, enterprise search, records management, information architecture, cloud computing
Guy Creese is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Collaboration and Content Strategies.
He covers content management, content analytics, enterprise search, records management, and information architecture. Prior to joining Burton Group, Guy was an IT industry analyst, support engineer, product manager of operating systems, software developer, and served as Co-chair of the Standards Committee for the Web Analytics Association. With 25 years of experience, Guy was the first industry analyst to cover web analytics and has a long history of analyzing how users create, disseminate, find and evaluate content. Guy blogs at http://creese.typepad.com.
Ian Glazer
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
provisioning, privacy, identity audit, controls management
Ian Glazer is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy Strategies service.
He covers identity audit, user provisioning, controls management, and privacy. Prior to joining Burton Group, Ian was senior director, of program management at Approva Corporation, director of identity strategy at Trusted Network Technologies, and senior product manager at IBM where he was a top-ranked product manager on the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager team, heading provisioning offerings for small and medium businesses. Ian is a strong advocate for industry standards and efficacy. He was a contributor to OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee and is a co-inventor of the patent pending Web Services Federated Provisioning. Ian is a frequent speaker and panelist at identity leadership events and is an active blogger identity management and security issues.
Jack Santos
Executive Strategist
Emphases:
organizational development, leadership and management practices, governance, vendor management, data and applications architecture, systems integration, internet and e-business solutions
Jack Santos is an Executive Strategist for Burton Group Executive Advisory Program.
He covers organizational development, leadership and management practices, governance, vendor management, data and applications architecture, systems integration, and Internet and e-business solutions. Prior to joining Burton Group, Jack served in leadership roles for Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Maximus, Liberty Mutual Group, Bowstreet Software, and Catholic Medical Center Hospital. With 28 years of experience in IT and business operations, Jack’s expertise as an agent of change has helped struggling enterprise IT organizations quickly assess critical issues and develop plans to successfully address those issues.
Jack Stackhouse
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
network architecture, Voice-over-IP, compute, virtualization, IPv6, remote access, ITIL
Jack Stackhouse is a senior analyst in Burton Group’s Network Telecom Strategies.
He covers network, data center, security, storage, compute, virtualization, remote access architecture, VPNs, wireless technologies, ITIL and IPv6 as well as the crossover between these technologies. Prior to joining Burton Group, Jack gained experience in systems engineering and management, consulting large multinational organizations on secure network architecture, wireless technology and RFP development for WAN, voice technology and IT outsourcing. Prior to joining Burton Group Jack retired from the Air Force where he was Chief, Systems Integration at HQ AFMC, Wright Patterson AFB, OH. Jack subsequently worked at both AT&T and Control Data in their professional services. With over 20 years of experience, Jack has provided consulting services on LAN/WAN architectures, data center, VPN and wireless solutions for both private industries and the Department of Defense. Jack also teaches Network Architecture, wireless technologies, data center networks and IPv6 tutorials and workshops. Jack has been a member of IEEE since 2000.
Joe Bugajski
Research Vice President
Emphases:
enterprise architecture, data access strategies, data strategies, application engineering, information integration and quality, technology standards, model driven architecture
Joe Bugajski is the research vice president for Burton Group Data Management Strategies.
He covers data access strategies, data services, enterprise architecture, application engineering, information integration and quality, model driven architecture, and technology standards. Prior to joining Burton Group, Joe was chief data officer at Visa responsible worldwide for information architecture and quality. He also held position of chief enterprise architect and resident entrepreneur covering strategy, risk systems, and data warehousing at Visa, CEO of business intelligence software provider at Triada, and manager of enterprise information systems and prototype builder with Ford Motor Company. In Joe’s industry experience he is a noted researcher and holder of four patents, twenty-two peer-reviewed publications – won 1st Place Practice Prize, KDD 2007. He is the builder of technology businesses and enterprise architect with significant efficiencies wins born of systems and data integration.
Joe Maguire
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
data modeling tools, data modeling techniques, off-the-shelf data models
Joe Maguire is a senior analyst for Burton Group Data Management Strategies.
He covers data-modeling tools, data-modeling techniques, and off-the-shelf data models. Prior to joining Burton Group, Joe was an independent consultant building data and process models for numerous clients in pharmaceutical, publishing, construction, telecommunications, and software industries. With 25 years of experience in software, he worked in product development for Digital, Lotus, Microsoft, and Bachman Information Systems. Joe’s contributions to data modeling extend beyond specific data models for clients; he is co-author of Mastering Data Modeling (Addison-Wesley, 2000), praised by industry luminaries and other thought leaders as an important contribution to the body of knowledge and by modeling practitioners as a pragmatic guide for hands-on professionals.
Ken Agress
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
network architecture, Voice-over-IP, IP Telephony, secure messaging, VPN, application performance
Ken Agress is a senior analyst for Burton Group’s Network Telecom Strategies.
He covers network design and architecture, application performance, VPN technologies, wireless networks, network management, IP telephony/VoIP strategy, project management and carrier. Prior to joining Burton Group, Ken gained his experience in the networking industry as a consultant, network manager, systems engineer, and member of technical staffs. He has worked on large and medium projects in networks for enterprises, educational institutions, and government with networks ranging from metropolitan to international scales. With 17 years of experience, Ken’s broad experience in consulting on LAN/WAN architectures, data center, IP telephony/VoIP, carrier services, and network performance has been provided to Fortune 100/1000 companies, large universities, and municipal governments.
Kevin Kampman
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
identity management, directories, provisioning, role management, identity services
Kevin Kampman is a senior analyst for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies.
He covers identity and role management, directory services, provisioning, and electronic commerce. Prior to joining Burton Group, Kevin’s duties included systems engineering, engineering management, integration and development, and project management with AT&T, Control Data Systems, Compaq/DEC, NCR, and TRW. From 1998 to 2007, Kevin managed Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy, Security and Risk Management consulting teams in their interactions with enterprise customers. With over 20 years of experience, Kevin was a past chair of the Directory Services and Collaborative Computing Work Groups at the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), a Michigan-based consortium of over 1,500 manufacturers. This work led him to being named two-time recipient of the AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award for contributions to the industry. He also co-authored All About Network Directories, published by John Wiley and Sons. Kevin is currently engaged with a international community of organizations chartered to develop a shared perspective on identity services.
Kirk Knoernschild
Analyst
Emphases:
languages, platforms, SDLC, frameworks
Kirk Knoernschild is an analyst for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies.
He covers development platforms, programming languages and frameworks, and the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Prior to joining Burton Group, Kirk was a software developer who could be found working in the trenches on enterprise software development projects. With over 15 years of software development experience, Kirk has filled most roles on the software development team. In 2002, Kirk wrote the book “Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process”, published by Addison-Wesley. Kirk is an open source contributor, has authored numerous articles, and is a frequent conference speaker. He has trained and mentored thousands of software professionals on topics including Java/J2EE, modeling, software architecture and design, component based development, service oriented architecture, and software process. Kirk is trapped in a software developer’s body, and continues to enjoy hacking in a variety of languages, including Java, .Net, Ruby, and PHP.
Larry Cannell
Analyst
Emphases:
open source, enterprise and desktop search, collaboration and communication
Larry Cannell is an analyst for Burton Group Collaboration and Content Strategies.
He covers enterprise and desktop search in addition to open source collaboration, communication and content solutions. Prior to joining Burton Group, Larry was the workstream lead for collaboration and business intelligence (BI) research for Ford Motor Company’s advanced IT group. At Ford, Larry was developing an Enterprise 2.0 vision for the company and was previously a program manager of collaborative solutions. With 20 years of industry experience, Larry is an active member of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board. Larry blogs at ccsblog.burtongroup.com, cannell.org/blog, and enterprise2blog.com.
Lori Rowland
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
identity management, directories, provisioning
Lori Rowland is the Vice President and Service Director for Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies.
She covers identity management, provisioning, and directories. Prior to joining Burton Group, Lori was apart of Novell’s Security Identity Management development team as DirXML deployment manager. With 10 years of experience, Lori expertise in ERP applications, business process design, directory services, identity management and provisioning has provided her frequent speaking appearances at BrainShare, and PeopleSoft’s end user-conference.
Lyn Robison
Research Director
Emphases:
data quality process, data services, data access, enterprise architecture, software as a service, data access strategies, data strategies, database technologies, portfolio management
Lyn Robison is the research director for Burton Group's Data Management Strategies service.
He covers data strategy, IT strategy, enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, application architecture, information quality, database technologies, data access technologies, data services, and IT metrics. Prior to joining Burton Group, Lyn was an application architect at a large electronics manufacturer, an enterprise architect for an electric utility, and then an enterprise architect for the LDS Church. He is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences and has authored two books and numerous technical articles.
Marcus Collins
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
enterprise architecture, database technologies, data architecture, database management systems
Marcus Collins is a senior analyst for Burton Group Data Management Strategies.
He covers enterprise architecture; data architecture; data and information integration; database management systems and database technologies; semantic web. In addition to providing technical focus, Marcus will look at data management through the lens of international business having recently completed an MBA in the EU. Prior to joining Burton Group, Marcus was an enterprise architect with Novartis, the pharmaceutical organization, where his focus was on data integration in a research environment. Prior to this Marcus held a number of senior technologist and architecture roles for consulting organizations both in the US and internationally. With over 25 years of experience in data and information management, Marcus has worked in industry verticals as diverse as oil exploration and production; utilities; retail and logistics; scientific computing; life science and pharmaceuticals. Marcus is a respected speaker and writer and has presented at data management and technology conferences.
Mark Cortner
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
Voice-over-IP, IP Telephony, real-time communications, unified communications
Mark Cortner is a senior analyst for Burton Group Network and Telecom Strategies.
He covers voice-over-IP, IP telephony, real-time communications, and unified communications. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mark has held various development, product marketing, senior management, and consulting roles. With 19 years of experience, Mark is an expert in the development of enterprises strategies related to voice-over-IP and its convergence with telephony, messaging, presence, and wireless-based solutions.
Mark Diodati
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
identity management, authentication, directories, provisioning, web access management, single sign-on, physical-logical convergence
Mark Diodati is a senior analyst for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies.
He covers identity management, authentication, provisioning, cryptography, directories, web access management, and operating system security. Mark’s previous positions include Vice President of CA’s Worldwide Identity and Access Management Practice; director of product management for Computer Associates’ federation, web access management, and SSO products; senior product manager for RSA Security’s smart card, SSO, mobile PKI, and file encryption products. With 18 years of experience, Mark implemented information security systems for Internet banking, data warehousing, UNIX, strong authentication, and the network at Metavante, a financial services data processing organization with more than 5,100 clients, including the largest 20 banks in the United States. His certifications include CPA, CISA, CISM. Mark is a contributor to ABC News, eWeek Magazine, Internet Security Magazine, and Network Magazine.
Michael Disabato
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
wireless and mobility, ITIL, ITSM, organizational change
Michael Disabato is the Vice President and service director for Burton Group Network and Telecom Strategies.
He covers wireless and mobility technologies for end-user organizations, IT Service Management (ITSM), the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and organizational change. Prior to joining Burton Group, Michael was a senior manager in network engineering for WorldCom Conferencing and held duties at McDonald's Corporation as an enterprise architect for security and networks and manager of the applied technology lab. With 35 years of experience in consulting, application development, networking, security, mobility, and technology assessment, Michael was named one of ten visionaries in 1993 by Communications Week Magazine and one of the 50 Most Influential People in Networking Industry by Network Computing Magazine.
Mike Rollings
Research Director, Enterprise Architecture
Emphases:
organizational change, enterprise architecture, strategy, portfolio management, IT governance and collaboration
Mike Rollings is the Research Director for Burton Group’s Enterprise Architecture coverage area and a member of the Executive Advisory Program.
He covers strategic planning, enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, IT governance and collaboration, and organizational change. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike was managing principal for Momentum Strategies performing strategic program management, data strategy, model-driven architecture and governance implementation; and acted as vice president and practice lead for META Group’s enterprise architecture consulting practice. With 23 years of experience, Mike is recognized as creator of META Group’s enterprise architecture project delivery methodology and co-created META Group’s value management and portfolio management method - an approach to create, analyze, balance and manage a given IT investment or asset portfolio.
Nik Simpson
Senior Analyst
Emphases:
data center power and cooling, grid/cloud, HPC, I/O virtualization, data center economics, x86 compute platforms
Nik Simpson is a senior analyst for Burton Group Data Center Strategies.
He covers server platforms, data center power and cooling, and grid/cloud/HPC computing models. Prior to joining Burton Group, Nik spent more than 20 years in a variety of technical and marketing positions at server and storage companies. With 20 years of experience in servers, storage, and system software, Nik has seen the compute platform evolve from proprietary minicomputers through RISC/UNIX to todays commoditized x86 server platforms. Nik also was the co-chair of SNIA’s Information Lifecycle Management Initiative (ILMI) and co-authored SNIA Technical Tutorial: Storage Virtualization, as well as several books Windows and web technologies.
Paul DeBeasi
Research Director
Emphases:
wireless and mobility
Paul DeBeasi is the research director for Burton Group's Network and Telecom Strategies.
He covers wireless and mobility. Prior to joining Burton Group, Paul founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless advisory firm and was VP product marketing at Legra Systems. With 25 years of experience, Paul led product management for Cascade Communication’s Frame Relay business unit, contributing a two year revenue growth of $160M and launched network start-ups IPHighway, Legra Systems, and ONEX Communications into highly competitive markets. Paul began his career as a senior engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Phil Schacter
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
web security, enterprise security, network security, identity management, provisioning
Phil Schacter is a Vice President and service director for Burton Group Security and Risk Management strategies.
He covers enterprise security, security governance, network security, and security reference architectures. Prior to joining Burton Group, Phil has worked in the network technology industry with experience in mainframe network applications, network-delivered services, distributed messaging systems, security policy and architecture, security consulting, and identity management systems. With 35 years of industry experience, Phil has designed and developed network applications, managed network services, and messaging product lines. He has worked on standards groups and authored reports on IT technologies and architecture, security, and identity management topics.
Ramon Krikken
Analyst
Emphases:
cryptography, application security, SDLC security, SOA security, code security
Ramon Krikken is an analyst for Burton Group Security and Risk Management Strategies.
He covers Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and general software development security, and cryptography. Prior to joining Burton Group, Ramon was an information security consultant to the financial, utility, and healthcare industries. With 15 years of IT experience, and 12 dedicated to information security and risk management, Ramon has assisted customers - ranging from small and medium business to large international commercial banks - with a variety of tactical and strategic security and integration initiatives. Ramon holds a Master's degree in Computer Science, and has CISSP, CISA, and CISM certifications.
Richard Jones
Vice President and Service Director
Emphases:
server virtualization, data center consolidation, disaster recovery, business continuity, storage virtualization, high availability and clustering
Richard Jones is the Vice President and Service Director for Burton Group Data Center Strategies at Burton Group.
He covers disaster recovery, business continuity, x86 server operating systems, high availability and clustering, and server and desktop virtualization. Richard brings 25 years of experience in technical analysis, engineering, project, and product management, in the software industry. Prior to joining Burton Group, Richard held research and development director level positions at Novell across nearly all product lines including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, storage, high availability, business continuity, printing, desktop management, and Microsoft Windows integration technologies. Richard is a top rated speaker at industry events. Richard has patents granted/pending in business continuity, storage, systems, and identity management.
Richard Watson
Analyst
Emphases:
business process management, java, SOA, cloud computing
Richard Watson is an analyst for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies.
He covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, Java, middleware, cloud computing and business process management (BPM). Prior to joining Burton Group, Richard was VP of architecture for Credit Suisse, leading efforts to adopt SOA, reference data architecture, and Java platform strategies. While at Credit Suisse Richard led enterprise architecture efforts, SOA initiatives, project design reviews, patterns and practices initiatives and capital expenditure reviews for the CTO architecture group. He was also Principal Engineer and technical lead at both CapeClear and IONA Technologies. With 16 years in IT Richard has proven experience delivering systems in mission-critical environments and leading teams that develop quality software. Richard has spoken on SOA and web services at JavaOne and LinuxWorld.
Simon Bramfitt
Analyst
Emphases:
client virtualization, application virtualization, desktop virtualization
Simon Bramfitt is an analyst for Burton Group Data Center Strategies.
He covers application, desktop and client virtualization technologies. Prior to joining Burton Group, Simon was a senior architect at Kaiser Permanente, with responsibility its national application virtualization environment. Simon has over 20 years of experience in designing high availability application delivery and application virtualization environments. Simon’s experience also includes being an IT administrator, consultant, service delivery manager and IT manager. Simon blogs at dcsblog.burtongroup.com and simonbramfitt.com.
Trent Henry
Principal Analyst
Emphases:
infrastructure protection, compliance and control standards, content security, cryptography
Trent Henry is a Principal Analyst for Burton Group's Security and Risk Management Strategies service.
He covers data protection, compliance and control standards, content security, cryptography, and other topics. Prior to joining Burton Group, Trent served in the PKI industry as a chief information security officer, technology researcher, and Internet server developer. Other past experience includes work at Identrust, Digital Signature Trust, Ameritech, and Apple. With 18 years of experience, Trent is a respected speaker and writer on information security, audit, and compliance topics. He has participated on security standards bodies such as X9 and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and contributed to the first Common Criteria Protection Profile slated to become an ANSI standard. Trent received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.