Stephanie Balaouras Stephanie Balaouras
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Backup & Recovery, Computer Architectures, Storage & Data Management, Data Protection, High Availability/Fault Tolerance, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Data Center Management, Data Archiving

Research Focus

Stephanie primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for Security & Risk professionals. She is a leading expert in how companies build resilient IT infrastructures to support key business initiatives. During her two years with Forrester, Stephanie has been instrumental in the development of Forrester's research and offerings in business continuity, disaster recovery, and information storage and protection.

Her research focuses on the business strategies, operational processes, and organizational structures required to govern business continuity programs, as well as the technologies for high availability, next-generation backup and disaster recovery.

Previous Work Experience

Stephanie has more than ten years experience with technology for information storage, information protection and disaster recovery. Prior to joining Forrester, Stephanie was a senior analyst with Yankee Group. At Yankee Group, Stephanie provided insight on technology trends to key system, storage, and information protection vendors and consultative advice on strategic and tactical initiatives. Before Yankee Group, Stephanie worked at EMC, first as a technical architect and then as a senior education and productivity consultant. As a technical architect, she articulated EMC's value to partners and customers and architected solutions to meet customer and new market opportunities. As an education and productivity consultant, she managed and supported complex technical training programs for business and practice managers in EMC's Technology Solutions Group. Prior to EMC, Stephanie worked at Accenture as a consultant focused on the implementation of business applications (SAP, PeopleSoft) for global businesses.

 

Education

Stephanie holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and finance and investments from Babson College.

Latest Research

Planned Research

What You Need To Know About Data Deduplication December 2008
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China Data Center Weather Forecast December 2008
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Recent Media Citations
Byte & Switch, "Sun Bangs OpenSolaris Drum . . . Again," August 20, 2008
INFOSTOR, "NetApp De-Dupes Competitors' Primary Storage," July 31, 2008
CSO, "How To Evaluate BC/DR Consultants," July 11, 2008
Computerworld, "New Strategies For New Disasters," March 31, 2008
SearchStorage.com, "Small Storage Vendors Walk In The Clouds, Too," March 3, 2008
Disaster Recovery Journal, "The State Of DR Preparedness," Winter 2008