Laurent Lachal
Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions at Ovum, is leading Ovum Software Group's cloud computing research. He works in close co-operation with other members of the Ovum team, both within the software group as well as the Ovum IT services, telecom and vertical industry teams, to cover the various aspects of the cloud computing phenomenon and its impact on the software market. In his 19-year career as an IT analyst, Laurent has provided software vendors and users with insight into a wide range of issues from high-level business strategy issues to low-level technology ones. He has a deep knowledge of most segments of the IT industry from infrastructure to applications and was until mid-2009 in charge of Ovum’s open source-related research activities. Besides Ovum, where he has spent most of his career, Laurent has also been European software market group manager at Gartner Ltd
