Analyst Profile Detailed
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Graham Penn
Associate Vice President, Asia/Pacific Storage Research
Team:
Asia/Pacific Servers and Workstations Team
Asia/Pacific Storage Team
Storage
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Graham Penn has more than 40 years of extensive experience in the IT industry as a programmer, end-user, systems analyst and market analyst.
Graham is based in Sydney, Australia where he directs and coordinates storage research in 12 countries around the Asia/Pacific region. This program has established IDC as the premier market analysts for storage in the Asia/Pacific market.
Prior to the current appointment, Graham was General Manager Research at IDC Australia and from 1995 to 1998 he was IDC New Zealand Country Manager. From 1989 to 1995, he was the senior analyst for personal computers, peripherals and workstations at IDC Australia, building the program into the key industry data source and a major contributor of revenue for the organization.
Prior to joining IDC, he was responsible for the preparation of specifications for a distributed online stock control system for a grocery products company. He has held previous positions with a major Australian retail chain, as computer programmer, corporate planning manager and as information services manager.
Graham has been regularly quoted in print and electronic media in Australia and New Zealand, and has contributed numerous articles and columns to trade journals. He presently writes a monthly column for Information Age.
Graham received Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Management, an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia, a Member of the Graduate Management Association, a Fellow of the Retail Management Institute of Australia, and an Associate of the IEEE Computer Society.
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Although disk storage systems internal to the server have experienced growth at a higher rate than the increase in the number of servers, it is external disk storage systems that are experiencing the largest increase in demand. External storage systems are key building blocks for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS), and are also being installed for rack-mount installations.
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