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Study Group: Microsoft Vista Evaluators

Council Members in this Study Group: 18

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Ian Ash, District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT , Softchoice Corporation- CCIan Ash

District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT
Softchoice Corporation- CC
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Ian Ash is a District Sales Manager, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at SoftChoice, a software and hardware reseller in North America. Softchoice currently sells 400,000 IT products and provides services in all areas of IT. He is responsible for...

Jon Peddie, President, JOHN PEDDIE RESEARCHJon Peddie

President
JOHN PEDDIE RESEARCH
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Jon Peddie, PhD, is one of the pioneers of the graphics industry, starting his career in computer graphics in 1962. After the successful launch of several graphics manufacturing companies, Dr. Peddie began Jon Peddie Associates in 1984 to provide comprehensive...

Donald Lemma, Former Vice President and Chief Information Officer, APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS OVERSEAS CORPORATIONDonald Lemma

Former Vice President and Chief Information Officer
APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS OVERSEAS CORPORATION
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Donald Lemma was VP and CIO of Applied Biosystems (ending in April 2009 with the merger with Invitrogen formation of "Life Technologies", NASDAQ: LIFE), the world's leading manufacturer of laboratory instrumentation equipment used for genetic analysis,...

Ryan Bott, Director of Channel/OEM Development, Fusion-ioRyan Bott

Director of Channel/OEM Development
Fusion-io
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Ryan Bott is the Director of Global Channel/OEM Development at Fusion IO, a leader in solid state storage technology. Mr. Bott manages SSD demand for OEM Alliances like IBM, HP, and Dell. He is knowledgeable on MLC and SLC flash for WD, STEC, Micron,...

Jeff Gould, CEO, PEERSTONE RESEARCHJeff Gould

CEO
PEERSTONE RESEARCH
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Jeff Gould is Chief Executive Officer and Research Director at Peerstone Research. He provides technology consulting and conducts market research focused on all layers of the enterprise software stack, including applications such as ERP and CRM, database...

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Salesforce's Benioff Delivers at Dreamforce. Revenue Builders or Social Fodder?

November 19, 2009

Salesforce.com Announces new Social Applications | www.thestandard.com

Salesforce.com announced major initiatives with Computer Associates,Facebook and Twitter all around their new Chatter feature which Mark Benioff calls the greatest changes since Dreamforce.com began 8 yrs ago. But are these additions social fodder or new streams of revenue for the CRM giant?

Nvidia leaps into supercomputers

October 5, 2009

Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing" | www.tgdaily.com

Nvidia is in the test of its life with big stakes, big investments, and big risks – Fermi is a hail Mary pass if ever there was one. It’s not as reactionary or impulsive as some have suggested and a plan I think has been in the process for the past three years. Nvidia has been putting the pieces in place for the Fermi product through acquisition,  industry initiatives and setting up the platform. One of Jen Hsun Hung’s strengths is his long range vision and I think you can see it at work here.

Pineview not delayed

July 30, 2009

Digitimes Insight: Intel Pine Trail launch to delay | www.digitimes.com

In a meeting yesterday with Intel excutives I learned that Pineview, Intel's Atom CPU intgrated with a graphics processor and memory manger, is not delayed as has been reported elsewhere.

Continued growth in all segements in computer graphics industry

July 28, 2009

The Compute Graphics market will have a CAGR of 8% to 2013 | www.jonpeddie.com

The computer graphics industry has enjoyed almost non-stop growth since it was established the late 1970s. Today,  computer graphics hardware and software (not counting services, maintenance and other aspects) are worth $68 billion – that’s a mind boggling average growth rate of 16.5% for 28 years!  (Charts available: email jon@jonpeddie.com)

The convergence of CG computing and visualization has arrived.

July 28, 2009

How does the world change when you can see what you’re thinking? | jonpeddie.com

Today, with GPU compute the researcher launches the computation in his or her own lab with his or her local supercomputer and with the same machine does the visualizations the way he or she wants them done. Depending on the complexity of the task jobs that took weeks now takes days, jobs that took days can be done in minutes and the time scales are further compressing. Productivity goes up, quality of research goes up, humanity benefits - it is the convergence of compute and viz.

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Market Research Company*
  • Systems Integrator (SI)
  • Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • Bulge-Bracket Investment Bank
  • IT Outsourcing Company
  • Storage Systems
  • Desktop Software
  • Value Added Reseller (VAR)
  • Regional Banks
  • Managed Care Health Insurer, For-Profit
  • Aerospace Component Manufacturer (ei)
  • National Banks
  • OEM Automotive Manufacturer

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  • Director
  • Chief Information Officer
  • IT Manager
  • Consultant
  • Principal
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • President
  • District Sales Manager

GLG Live Meetings with this Study Group's Leading Experts (?)

February 18, 2009 | New York

GLG Seminar: (NYC) Software M&A Predictions

February 17, 2009 | Boston

GLG Seminar: (BOS) Software M&A Predictions

November 12, 2008 | New York

GLG Seminar: (NYC) Colliding Technologies on the Computing Landscape-Intel, AMD, and Nvidia

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