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Peter Williams

Peter Williams

Practice Leader
Geographic Location: United Kingdom
Focus Area: IT Infrastructure Management (including Storage)

Peter Williams' IT industry experience spans over 40 years and he is well-respected for his breadth of both technology and business knowledge. Peter joined Bloor Research in late 2004 after four years as an IT writer and correspondent. Peter recently took on the IT Infrastructure Management brief for Bloor, which includes Storage Management.

IT infrastructure management here refers to management of the physical servers, storage and network infrastructure and devices (assets) found within an enterprise, including the data centre and distributed communications—and especially the infrastructure management software which also manages the logical (virtual) system views. It includes asset management, systems and service/maintenance management (which relates back to the assets including licensing), plus data backup/restore/archive and disaster recovery and business continuity.

Peter’s early experience was primarily with computer manufacturer NCR, working in a number of technical roles including: programmer, systems analyst, installation consultant – then graduating to project manager responsible for major software developments in the banking, retail and health sectors. In the late 1980s he became NCR's national marketing manager for the logistics and manufacturing vertical sectors. In 1993 he joined a high-tech marketing company, writing promotional and technical material for companies such as Digital (DEC), Kyocera Europe and RS Components, while he also gained a BSc in Computing part-time.

After a contract period as information systems manager for a pipework tools manufacturer he entered IT journalism with IT Week, part of VNU Business Publications, in October 2000 and was later a founding correspondent within the VNU News Centre team. In his four-years with VNU he provided some 2000 reports and analyses on both technology and business for the VNUnet web site plus IT Week, Computing, Network News and Computer Reseller News IT business publications. Peter was able to conduct in-depth interviews with some top IT industry leaders. Latterly he also wrote regular newsletters on open source and business hardware.

Peter has researched and provided positioning material for a number of vertical markets for Bloor and also carried out an editorial role for the Bloor Bytes news bulletin. Away from IT, Peter plays an active role in his local church. He is an honorary vice-president of the Sussex County Table Tennis Association having long ago represented Sussex and England. Married 34 years, he has three grown up children.

Recent work includes these 6 papers:

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