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Richard Villars is the Vice President of storage and IT Strategies at IDC.
Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's Information Infrastructure research team, which assess the development and adoption of storage solutions for rapidly growing information assets . 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, bladed servers, virtualization, 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 the "cloud" and large content repositories.
Mr. Villars has spent over 20 years at IDC assessing the emergence of network and storage solutions as well as advising companies on the impact of networking and information growth on existing IT and general business practices . He launched IDC research on ethernet, TCP/IP, the Internet, storage area networks, network-based storage virtualization, and cloud-based storage. 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.
Richard Villars is a senior member of IDC's Information Infrastructure research team, which assess the development and adoption of storage solutions for rapidly growing information assets . 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, bladed servers, virtualization, 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 the "cloud" and large content repositories.
Mr. Villars has spent over 20 years at IDC assessing the emergence of network and storage solutions as well as advising companies on the impact of networking and information growth on existing IT and general business practices . He launched IDC research on ethernet, TCP/IP, the Internet, storage area networks, network-based storage virtualization, and cloud-based storage. 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.