Vice President, Storage

Overview

IDC is seeking a Research Vice President (RVP) covering Storage, Converged, Hyperconverged and Composable infrastructure. Reporting to the GVP for the Storage and Data Management Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies subdomain, the RVP will be a key face of IDC's market intelligence and advisory services in the Enterprise Infrastructure domain. With are looking for candidates with the experience and skills needed to help IDC's clients bring innovative infrastructure products and services to market.

The RVP will have a broad and in-depth knowledge of the enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure industry with a specific focus on:
Systems. Primary and secondary systems, placed in enterprise datacenters, edge locations, colocation facilities, and hosting environments. In depth knowledge of common file, block and object-based data organization and access mechanisms over common Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and Infiniband networks. Platforms and Technologies. Software-defined storage, hyperconverged software, and data management storage platforms, different types of scale-up, parallel, and distributed file systems. Knowledge of data replication, security, and data protection software especially as it pertains to interaction with primary and secondary storage.

Flash and hard drive media, media access standards such as NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA/ROCE, CXL and PCIe to name a few. Knowledge of commercial storage operating systems and hypervisors is a plus. Vendor landscape. Knowledge of established and emerging storage, converged, hyperconverged and composable infrastructure vendors and service providers, their products and services, routes to market, ecosystems and partnerships, their strengths and weaknesses, and their competitive dynamics and focus areas.

Use cases and workloads. Storage workloads such as structured and unstructured data management (databases), web and business applications, collaborative applications, performance intensive applications used in modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, analytics, technical and engineering computing environments, to name a few. Ability to discern the differences between the various approaches at the silicon, platform, and systems architecture level is a plus.

IDC analysts are one of the most respected in the industry. A successful candidate will become an important member within a team of industry experts and will be looked upon as a frequent contributor to IDC's enterprise and cloud IT infrastructure services research. A suitable candidate IDC RVP will be expected to:
Work with IDC colleagues to ensure the storage and converged infrastructure coverage is well rounded in terms of quantitative and qualitative, IT supplier and end user, decision maker and investor, and vertical industry specific coverage. Ensure that there is no ambiguity in terms of how IDC views storage and converged infrastructure in the broader context of the enterprise IT industry.

Develop high-quality quantitative and qualitative research on market trends and industry outlook, delivered via IDC's syndicated research services. This includes developing taxonomies, market share and forecast reports, vendor reports, technology assessments, end user reports and market perspectives. Propagate IDC point of view to the broader industry with the goal of continuing IDC as a market research leader in storage and converged infrastructure.

This includes developing and delivering presentations on current and future industry trends, impact on vendors, and guiding IDC clients on the current and future state of the market. It also includes speaking at industry conferences, vendor events. Develop high-impact custom projects delivered via written reports and white papers, interactive engagements, speaking engagements and custom advisory services. Groom and mentor junior analysts to grow IDC's research on Enterprise IT infrastructure.

The candidate will be asked to take on people management responsibilities at some point in the future.

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree a plus.
• 10+ years of industry experience working at an IT vendor, in…