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Tim Grieser
Program Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software

Team: Infrastructure
Support Technologies
System and Network Management
Tim Grieser, Program Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software, is responsible for system management software research in IDC's Enterprise Systems Management Software program. His coverage includes software for managing systems and applications across a wide variety of platforms. A key focus area is e-business and distributed applications performance and availability, especially Web applications response time from the end-user perspective.

Tim has also served as Research Director, Performance and Availability Management Software research, and head of Management Service Providers research which focuses on the market for Systems Management facilities delivered through the hosted, subscription-based MSP model. Tim has published IDC research in a number of areas including market sizing, market forecasting, technological trends, vendor strategies and IT user needs and priorities.

Tim comes to IDC with 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of performance and availability management software. He was a product manager, R&D director, vice president of Product Marketing and finally vice president of North American Marketing at BGS Systems of Waltham. When that company was acquired by BMC Software of Houston, Dr. Grieser assumed a management position in performance product strategy and planning.

Tim has Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, specializing in computer performance analysis. His areas include performance monitoring, performance analysis, modeling and simulation, resource utilization and service-level management and reporting. He brings a new dimension to IDC's research in application performance and availability management, combining in-depth technical knowledge with broad experience in software industry business practices.



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Novell Acquires Managed Objects
Frederick W. Broussard, Tim Grieser
Oct 2008 - Doc # 214795      Event Flash
This IDC Flash discusses Novell's intention to acquire Managed Objects.:
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Worldwide Performance and Availability Management Software 2007 Vendor Shares
Tim Grieser
Oct 2008 - Doc # 214409      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study examines the size of the overall performance and availability management software market in 2007 and each of the two constituent markets: performance management software and event automation tools. Market shares ...
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Appearances

Service Management Maturity Executive Roundtable
New York, NY United States
January 21, 2009

Service Management Maturity Executive Roundtable
San Francisco, CA United States
January 15, 2009

Service Management Maturity Executive Roundtable
Dallas, TX United States
January 13, 2009

Service Management Maturity Executive Roundtable
Philadelphia, PA United States
December 11, 2008

Service Management Maturity Executive Roundtable
Chicago, IL United States
December 10, 2008

Using IT Service Management and ITIL to Convert IT Capabilities into Business Value
New York, NY United States
November 13, 2008

IDC Green IT Forum
New York, NY United States
February 28, 2008

Top 10 Infrastructure Software Predictions for 2008 - A Look at the Road Ahead
United States
January 17, 2008

IDC IT Service Management and ITIL Forum
New York, NY United States
December 05, 2007