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Jason Lewis brings 15 years of senior technology management experience to Burton Group. Throughout his technology career, he contributed to and participated in a dozen high-level product rollouts in services industries; managed numerous systems integrations resulting from corporate M&As; implemented major database and directory services initiatives; and upgraded mission-critical systems for corporate-wide IT infrastructures. He has earned awards for both individual outstanding achievements as well as those recognizing corporate contributions, including PC World's "Customer Service Excellence" award and PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice Award." As vice president of information technology for Burton Group, Lewis sets and executes the company's IT strategy. In support of key corporate initiatives, Lewis aligns business and IT objectives, documents key statistics, and reports critical decision-making data. Lewis oversees the development of the company's electronic services - including web services architecture - and distribution. He also guides the development of all in-house information systems, and coordinates Burton's technical service and support efforts. Since joining Burton in 1997, Lewis spearheaded the design and creation of Burton's content management system. He also implemented the company's customer relationship management system, at which time Burton experienced a doubling of revenue. Prior to Burton, Lewis led IT product and architecture development for CrossLand Mortgage Corporation (now Wells Fargo), ranked one of the top 20 lenders in the nation. While at CrossLand, he guided the evolution of software systems during a time when the company's loan servicing totals exceeded $14 billion annually. Before his tenure with CrossLand, Lewis held senior technology management positions at the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics Healthcare Network and National Microcomputers Corporation.

One of the IT industry's most respected analysts and consultants, Jamie Lewis drives and provides strategic direction for Burton Group's overall research efforts. With over 19 years of experience in the IT industry, Lewis has both studied and influenced the development of core network infrastructure technologies. In his five-year tenure at Novell, for example, Lewis helped educate the market about the emergence of the network operating system, directory services, and messaging systems. Lewis continued to focus on these and other core technologies after co-founding Burton Group in 1990. He has dedicated 14 years to Burton Group, working as both an analyst and a consultant. During that time, Lewis was instrumental in defining the concepts relevant to enterprise directories, meta-directories, access management systems, and other essential components of the emerging identity and access management infrastructure. More recently, Lewis charted Burton Group's expansion into Web services and application platforms with the launch of the Application Platform Strategies service. With Lewis' reliable guidance, Burton Group continues to monitor the evolution of these core technologies to support networked business models. Prominent users and vendors turn to Lewis for his keen insights into the evolution of these technologies and the markets that drive their development.

Chris Wolf is a Senior Analyst with the Burton Group, specializing in virtualization, high availability, and enterprise storage. Chris is the author of several books including "Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise" and "Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies," and is a frequent contributor to SearchServerVirtualization.com and SearchSystemsChannel.com. Chris has logged 14 years in IT and has specialized in virtualization and high availability since 2001.

Guy Creese is an Analyst at Burton Group. Prior to joining Burton Group, Creese started Ballardvale Research in 2004 with over twenty years of varied experience in competitive analysis, product marketing, and software development. As Research Director of Knowledge Management and Analytics at Aberdeen Group, Creese analyzed, wrote papers, and gave speeches about the content management, search/categorization, personalization, and Web analytics markets. He also covered business intelligence sectors such as data transformation, data quality, data mining, and analytical applications. Prior to joining Aberdeen in 1998, Creese worked at companies ranging in size from 250,000 to 50 -- from Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric to an Internet startup. He has held positions that span the software development and rollout process, including Programmer, QA Engineer, Tech Writer, and Customer Service Engineer, with the majority of his time spent as a Product Marketing Manager.

Phil Schacter is a Vice President and service director for Burton Group Security and Risk Management strategies. He covers identity management, enterprise security, provisioning, network security, and IT reference architectures. Prior to joining Burton Group, Phil has worked in the network technology industry with experience in mainframe network applications, network-delivered services, distributed messaging systems, security policy and architecture, and identity management systems. With 30 years of industry experience, Phil has designed and developed network applications, managed network services, and messaging product lines. He has worked on standards groups and authored reports on IT technologies and architecture, security, and identity management topics.

Martha Collins has a master s degree in media communications. Her experience includes thirteen years as a freelance writer, editor, copy editor and proofreader; four years on staff at a publishing company; and eight years of teaching. She writes and edits magazine features and newspaper articles on a range of topics including health care, business, the meeting industry, technology, crisis management and health insurance. Martha has analyzed survey data to produce articles that include tables, graphs and charts, as well as written analysis. She has also written case studies, profiles and destination features. In addition to copyediting college textbooks, Martha copyedits online course materials for the University of Texas. She is a freelance editor for Burton Group, which publishes technology advisory reports on network architecture, application platforms, and security strategies. She also copyedits and proofreads magazines, corporate newsletters and reports.