Matt Eastwood

CEO

Boston, Massachusetts, United States37 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in enterprise infrastructure and datacenter trends.
Leads a team of over 100 analysts at IDC.
Frequent speaker at global industry events.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in IT Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Market AnalysisCloud ComputingConsultingResearch ManagementProject ManagementEnvironmental Engineering

Other Skills

ForecastingEnterprise ComputingStorageNetworkingSystems Infrastructure SoftwareInfrastructure ServicesCloudSecurityDatacenterHPCDevelopersChannelsEnabling TechnologiesMarket ResearchVirtualization

About

Matt Eastwood is Senior Vice President of IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group. His responsibilities include managing market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting for Enterprise Computing, Storage, Networking, Systems Infrastructure Software, Infrastructure Services, Security, Cloud, Telecom, HPC, Datacenter, Developers, Channels and Enabling Technologies. He leads a team of more than 100 analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing people, process and technology trends affecting cloud, infrastructure and datacenters worldwide. Mr. Eastwood speaks frequently at IDC, industry, and user events around the world and is frequently quoted in leading business and technology publications. Mr. Eastwood also serves as IDC's lead analyst covering Dell and VMware. Mr. Eastwood received a bachelor's degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and earned his M.S. in Engineering Project Management from WPI in Worcester, MA. Specialties: Licensed Professional Engineer, MA

Experience

37 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

18 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

26 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Idc

3 roles

Senior Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 1 mo

Matt Eastwood is Senior Vice President of IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group. His responsibilities include managing market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting for Enterprise Computing, Storage, Networking, Systems Infrastructure Software, Infrastructure Services, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Datacenter, Security, ITOps and Developer Tools. He leads a team of analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing people, process and technology trends affecting enterprise infrastructure and datacenters worldwide. Mr. Eastwood speaks frequently at IDC, industry, and user events around the world and is frequently quoted in leading business and technology publications. Mr. Eastwood also serves as IDC's lead analyst covering Dell and VMware.
Mr. Eastwood joined IDC in 2000. He provides in-depth market analysis, research, and consulting on all aspects of the enterprise infrastructure marketplace to IT professionals, investors, resellers and technology suppliers. During his tenure at IDC, Mr. Eastwood has led IDC primary research focused on emerging trends in enterprise systems and datacenters. This primary research allows IDC to make continual assessments regarding how customers are deploying and using enterprise infrastructure power digital transformation. Recent topics covered in Mr. Eastwood’s research include: Software Defined Infrastructure, Integrated infrastructure, Convergence, Disaggregated Infrastructure, Virtualization & Automation, Cloud Computing, High Availability, Platform Migration and Datacenter Workloads.

Market AnalysisForecastingConsultingEnterprise ComputingStorageNetworking+10

Group Vice President

Promoted

Jun 2007 – Apr 2015 · 7 yrs 10 mos

Mr. Eastwood served as Group Vice President of IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group (EPG) where he led a team of analysts responsible for managing market analysis, forecasting and consulting for servers, workstations, infrastructure channels, datacenter trends, virtualization software, systems management software, IT leasing and financing and server & client operating environments worldwide.

Market AnalysisForecastingConsultingVirtualization SoftwareInfrastructure ChannelsDatacenter Trends

Vice President

Jan 2000 – Jun 2007 · 7 yrs 5 mos

During this time, Mr. Eastwood served in a variety of positions including Research Manager, Program Director and Vice President of IDC's worldwide server and workstation research.

Research ManagementMarket AnalysisConsulting

Cdm smith

Senior Project Manager

Jul 1988 – Jan 2000 · 11 yrs 6 mos · Cambridge, MA

Mr. Eastwood worked as a senior project manager and consultant at CDM (now CDM Smith) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Eastwood was responsible for managing the planning and design of large environmental infrastructure projects including wastewater collection and treatment facilities. In addition, Mr. Eastwood served as Operations Manager of the firms New England practice. In this capacity, he was responsible for monitoring financial performance, resource planning, and compensation on a regional basis.

Project ManagementEnvironmental EngineeringInfrastructure Projects