Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (www.interarbor-solutions.com), an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years.

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Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: SOA, cloud computing, Web services, application development tools, and application lifecycle optimization techniques. His specific interests include enterprise infrastructure and processes, developer tool advances and trends, business intelligence, complex event processing, business process management, virtualization, infrastructure outsourcing and utility usage trends, and open source development and deployment initiatives.

As a software strategies blogger on ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/ Gardner) and BriefingsDirect (http://briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com) and via a podcast series on BriefingsDirect (http://www.briefingsdirect.com), his analysis, commentary and interviews become conversational, and powerfully distributed via social networking and search.

Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group, and a former editor-at-large and the founding online news editor at InfoWorld.com.