Analyst Profile Detailed
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Richard L. Villars
Vice President, Storage Systems
Team:
Storage
Virtualization
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As Vice President, Storage Systems , Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's Storage research team which assess the development and adoption of storage hardware and software solutions. He develops IDC's viewpoints on the evolution of storage networking infrastructure and next-generation storage technologies. He advises clients on the impact of tiered storage, blade servers, and regulatory compliance on organizations' storage and information management practices. Mr. Villars is a frequent speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences. Most recently he has spoken to IT managers in the US and Japan on managing storage capacity growth, improving data protection and application recovery practices, and designing storage solutions for large content repositories.
Mr. Villars has spent 19 years at IDC assessing emergence of network technologies and products as well as advising companies on the impact of networking on existing IT and general business practices . He launched IDC research on ethernet, TCP/IP, the Internet, storage area networks, network-based storage virtualization, network management, and directory services. He has testified about the impact of ebusiness on small business before the US Senate Committee on Small Business and spoke about the influence of ecommerce on high tech manufacturing.
Mr. Villars is co-author of the book eCommerce for Dummies. He has a bachelor of science in foreign service (B.S.F.S.) from Georgetown University with a concentration in science, technology, and international affairs.
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| IDC Virtualization Summit | | Chicago, IL United States | September 23, 2008
| | IDC-Kahn Consulting, Inc. Compliance in Information Management Forum | | New York, NY United States | September 17, 2008
| | IDC Virtualization Forum | | New York, NY United States | May 07, 2008
| | IDC Virtualization Forum | | San Francisco, CA United States | April 08, 2008
| | Directions 2008 | | Boston, MA United States | March 19, 2008
| | Directions 2008 | | San Jose, CA United States | March 11, 2008
| | IDC Green IT Forum | | New York, NY United States | February 28, 2008
| | IDC-Kahn Consulting, Inc. Compliance in Information Management Forum | | New York, NY United States | September 18, 2007
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