Last chance to vote for your analyst of the year!

The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations closes the Analyst of the Year survey at 10:00 p.m. BST on Wednesday April 30. To vote, go to http://snipurl.com/23gv1. In exchange for sharing your opinion, you’ll get a summary of the results next month.
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Around Josh Krischer from Josh Krischer & Associates in 12 questions

This week, in our continuing series of analyst interviews, Josh Krischer, founder and principal analyst with Josh Krischer & Associates, shares his insight on the IT analysis market.

What are your coverage areas?
I cover Mainframes, high-end computing, storage, disaster recovery techniques and data center consolidation.

What are your opinions of the IT Analysis Marketplace and where do [...]

Around Ray Wang from Forrester in 10 questions

This week we have the pleasure of interviewing R “Ray” Wang from Forrester Research. In his spare time, he also contributes to the insightful Software Insiders blog. Thanks to Ray for his insights on the Software industry and also some thought provoking views on the IT Analysis industry too.

What are your coverage areas?
Research [...]

Around Rüdiger Spies from IDC in 9 Questions

The IIAR has started a series of email interviews, where analysts from around the world are presented. We have talked to Rüdiger Spies from IDC . Thanks again fo him for the time he spent to give us some insight about IDC and the industry.
 
 
1. What are your coverage areas?
A) It’s pretty broad - basically [...]

Blog readership continues to double

Readership of the IIAR’s blog has continued to rise over the last few months. In fact, the number of visitors doubled in February, March and April.
David’s post on Ethics and Independence Among Industry Analysts has caught huge attention, as has Jonny’s Analyst of the year survey.
The next most-read article was about our 2007 survey [...]

Analyst of the year

Do you want your favourite analyst to be recognised?
Do you feel that enough recognition is given to your preferred analyst house?
If you have answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions - please fill in the analyst of the year survey now. This survey is open to everyone who works in AR. Send the link [...]

Around Ben Wood from CCS Insight in 11 Questions

Today we hear from Ben Wood who is a director at CCS Insight and one of the best known analysts in the mobile world. He and others in the CCS Insight team can be found blogging here.
What are your coverage areas?
CCS Insight specialises in research about the mobile and wireless industry — but we [...]

Around R. David Hofferberth of Service Performance Insight in 12 questions

Continuing our series of analyst interviews, next into the hotseat is David Hofferberth, from Service Performance Insights, one of the few analysts covering the Professional Services market -a huge but little spoken about industry.

What are your coverage areas?
I cover business applications that are used in the professional services sector. Traditionally, these have boiled down [...]

IDG to merge IDC with Gartner?

We have heard today (from three sources) that IDG, the parent of IDC, intends to buy Silver Lake Partners’ share in Gartner and the holdings of CEO Eugene Hall. As part of the deal Neil Bradford, former head of Forrester Americas, and Anthony Parslow, until recently head of Datamonitor, will replace Gene Hall as co-CEOs. [...]