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Ian Brown, Senior Analyst

Ian Brown is a senior analyst in Ovum's IT Services Practice. Ian's research focus is on IT infrastructure services and he is a contributor to Outsourcing@Ovum.

Ian joined Ovum in June 2007 after more than 20 years' experience in research and advisory services. Most recently, he spent nine years at Gartner as a research director in their Worldwide Server team. Prior to that, he worked for 11 years as an associate managing analyst at Datapro Research, which was part of the McGraw-Hill Corporation.

Ian has worked with some of the leading IT system vendors, including IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems. He has spoken at European conferences and seminars on the server market and hardware technologies, and on up-and-coming technologies such as virtualisation and multi-core processor technology. Ian also brings an understanding of enterprise-client needs, derived from his experience in working with end-user clients.

At Ovum, Ian will apply his knowledge and understanding of infrastructure solutions and CIOs' data-centre needs to the IT services market. He particularly looks forward to the opportunity to expand his area of expertise into the services market and to help Ovum's customers better understand their partners, clients and competitors.

Ian holds a joint honours degree in French and Foundations of Educational Enquiry from the University of Aston.