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.

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. You can follow him on Twitter at and on Friendfeed at. 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. Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions (an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.

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