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Lucinda Borovick
Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks

Team: Network Infrastructure
Virtualization
Lucinda (Cindy) Borovick is the Research Vice President for IDC’s Datacenter Networks service. In this position, she provides market analysis, research, and consulting on the datacenter. Ms. Borovick has been covering the information technology industry since joining IDC in 1987. Throughout this time, she has maintained a focus on researching and analyzing datacenter networking trends, technologies, products, suppliers, and end-user adoption strategies. She has particular expertise on key technical and business issues concerning networking adoption by place in the network. She analyzes server, storage and application deployments and how the interconnection of these technologies translates into requirements on the datacenter and remote branch.

Specific research responsibilities include analyzing the impact of application networking, WAN application delivery, blade server networking, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and storage networking on the datacenter of the future within the enterprise and service provider marketplace. Ms. Borovick is a frequent speaker on datacenter network topics and has presented for many computer and networking vendors as well as at major trade shows. Additionally, she has written articles for Computerworld and is frequently quoted in numerous business and trade publications, including Business Week, Forbes, eWeek, Light Reading, The Washington Post and Network World.

Ms. Borovick graduated from The University of New Hampshire in Durham with a dual bachelor of arts degree in history and economics.


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Juniper Enters the Datacenter Network Market
Lucinda Borovick
Nov 2008 - Doc # lcUS21519108      IDC Link
On November 10, 2008, Juniper Networks introduced its new Juniper Networks Data Center Infrastructure Solutions. Juniper solutions include switching, routing and security technologies. These solutions all run on a JUNOSĀ® software. Juniper h ...
How Will the Network Contribute to the Next Wave in Virtualization?
Lucinda Borovick
Sep 2008 - Doc # lcUS21439108      IDC Link
One of the more puzzling questions in the mass migration to virtualized servers on x86 platforms is the following: "Why is IT willing to give up network management, visibility and policy for virtualized workloads?" To date ...

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Extreme Networks: An Ethernet Switching Vendor Profile
Abner Germanow, Petr Jirovský, Lucinda Borovick
Nov 2008 - Doc # 214896      Vendor Profile
This IDC vendor profile provides an overview of Extreme Networks. Extreme Networks is a player in the Ethernet switching market, in the server area as well as the campus. This document reviews Extreme Networks' opportunities an ...
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Worldwide WAN Application Delivery 1H08 Vendor Shares
Tracy Corbo, Lucinda Borovick
Oct 2008 - Doc # 214585      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the WAN application delivery market for the first half of 2008. Vendor competitive analysis, with revenue and market share of the leading vendors, is provided for the first half of 2008.: ...
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Appearances

IDC Enterprise Data Center Forum
New York, NY United States
May 06, 2008

IDC at Interop Las Vegas 2008: Four Fears and Four Cheers Facing the Enterprise Networks Market
Las Vegas, NV United States
April 30, 2008

IDC Enterprise Data Center Forum
San Francisco, CA United States
April 07, 2008

Remote Branch of the Future
United States
March 25, 2008

Directions 2008
Boston, MA United States
March 19, 2008

Directions 2008
San Jose, CA United States
March 11, 2008