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Carl Greiner - SVP, Infrastructure, Software and IT Services

Carl Greiner is Ovum's senior vice-president (SVP), Infrastructure for the Software and IT Services group. Joining Ovum after 12 years at META Group, Carl held the position of SVP, directing data centre (infrastructure) coverage. Prior to this he was an SVP at Gartner Group, focusing on data centres and storage in the software cluster.

His initial career spans two decades with IBM, covering numerous management positions. He was a dynamic influence across diverse areas, including sales, US and A/FE marketing, product marketing and strategy responsibility, within the Enterprise Systems Group.

Carl has a strong customer focus, and is committed to helping companies develop and deliver their market strategies. He covers data centre infrastructure, addressing servers, storage, high availability, virtualisation, consolidation, business continuity, disaster recovery, operations excellence, facility planning and infrastructure management.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and an MBA from Cornell University.