Dana Gardner, Contributor

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, social media publishing, 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 16 years. Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: cloud computing, SOA, BPM, BI, Web services, application development tools, and application lifecycle optimization techniques. His specific interests include enterprise infrastructure and processes, developer tool advances and trends, embedded software advances, infrastructure outsourcing and utility usage trends, SOA infrastructure and integration developments, and open source development and deployment initiatives. Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld.