PRODUCT ROADMAPS

Microsoft product roadmaps all-in-one planning references summarize 100+ current and planned versions of Microsoft's most important enterprise products.

MICROSOFT LICENSING

We demystify Microsoft licensing programs to help you budget purchases and stay in compliance without overbuying.

RESEARCH REPORTS

We put all the critical facts you need to intelligently evaluate new Microsoft enterprise products at your fingertips.

Don Retallack

 

Expertise: Systems management and security offerings including System Center and Forefront products.

Don Retallack analyzes and writes about Microsoft's systems management and security offerings, including System Center and Forefront products.


Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Don managed technology evaluation for the Boeing Company, where he tracked IT trends and their potential impact on Boeing’s operations. Don also assessed and transitioned new technologies into Boeing’s various business units, including the 787 airplane program. Before joining Boeing, he was head of the Computer Division at the Very Large Array radio observatory. He also spent a year in Antarctica with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.

 

Don holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Sydney and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from Canadian universities.