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Juergen Urbanski
in San Francisco, CA
Managing Director, TechAlpha
Expertise: Alignment of IT infrastructure and applications with business needs, Analysis of key vendor trends and technology evaluation, Assessment of current and future internal demand patterns, Development of IT service catalogs, Requirements definition, platform choices and target costing, Technical and commercial IT sourcing optimization, IT operating expenditure reductions, Strategy, product management, marketing for IT infrastructure and business applications
About Juergen:
Juergen Urbanski is Managing Director of TechAlpha, an industry analyst and management consulting firm focused on the next generation data center.
Urbanski is a recognized thought leader on the future of applications and infrastructure software, including contributions to the Financial Times, NY Times, BBC, Red Herring, PC Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, BrandEins, as well as on his blog http://blog.techalpha.com
Previously, Juergen was a Director of Marketing with NetApp, where he had responsibility for growing the company’s Consulting and Integration business from $20m to over $60m in revenue.
Prior, he spent 4 years with McKinsey and Company’s Silicon Valley office, where he led teams on a variety of strategy, product management and marketing topics.
About TechAlpha: TechAlpha is an industry analyst and management consulting firm focused on the next generation data center. TechAlpha delivers superior insights and outcomes at the intersection of business and technology by working closely with both enterprises and vendors. Enterprise IT service offerings include: • Alignment of IT infrastructure and applications with business needs • Analysis of key vendor trends and technology evaluation • Assessment of current and future internal demand patterns • Development of IT service catalogs • Requirements definition, platform choices and target costing • Technical and commercial IT sourcing optimization • IT operating expenditure reductions TechAlpha covers the following markets: • Business applications, incl. on-demand and on-premise • IT infrastructure, incl. storage, virtualization and cloud computing
