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Mr. Christiansen is the Program Vice President for IDC's Security Products and Infrastructure Overview services. In both these areas, he manages the research schedules, executes primary research projects, and analyzes markets. He executes this research for vendors, end-users, and the financial community. [CR-LF][CR-LF]In his previous positions with IDC, Mr. Christiansen was director of IDC's Asset Management service. In this position, he managed the group's research activities, analyzed end-user business issues, and developed IDC?s Cost-of-Ownership model. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Christiansen also worked for IDC?s Worldwide Commercial Systems. As research director, he followed mid-range vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Siemens, Stratus, and Unisys. He created IDC's cost of ownership model and researched high-availability and fault tolerant technologies. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Before IDC, Mr. Christiansen founded Meta Group?s Midrange Service and consulted extensively with large users on open systems, Internet access, storage management, server consolidation, vendor negotiation, database selection, maintenance audits, software asset management, and systems/network management. Prior to Meta Group, he held positions with Data General, Wang Laboratories, Yankee Group, and Creative Strategies International.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Christiansen is widely traveled and quoted. He speaks at industry conferences in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Mr. Christiansen?s background of end-user consulting, vendor research, and competitive analysis reinforces his constant emphasis on the customer value.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Popular press and trade publications frequently call on Mr. Christiansen. His comments appear in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury, Washington Post, Fortune, ComputerWorld, Network World, InfoWorld, and others. His writings and analysis are seen overseas in Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Latin America, and Australia. His bulletins are translated into Danish, Japanese, Italian, French, German, and Portuguese.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Christiansen holds a Masters of Science degree from Boston University and a Bachelors degree from Millersville University.

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