Laura DiDio is high technology industry analyst and consultant, a professional writer and a former reporter.
She is a principal at Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC), a company she founded. Prior to this, DiDio spent over six years at Yankee Group, a Boston consultancy, where she held the title of Research Fellow. DiDio has expertise in a wide range of topics including: virtualization, desktop, server operating systems, hardware and software reliability and uptime, OS security, hardware and business intelligence. She also focused on the underlying business issues such as TCO and ROI, licensing and contract negotiation, Intellectual Property (theft of trade secrets, copyright and patent infringement) compliance and risk assessment and management that impact technology decisions.
Prior to joining Yankee Group, she spent nearly four years as a Research Director at Giga Information Group. Before that she held various reporting positions at a number of computer networking industry trade publications including: Computerworld, Network World, Communications Week, LAN Times, and Digital Review.
DiDio is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and user conferences and is widely quoted in the general press, business and trade press.
During her 25 year career, she has been an investigative reporter in TV, print, radio and the high technology trade press and has national writing awards.
DiDio also worked as an investigative reporter for various broadcasting and print outlets, including CNN and Channel 5 News in New York. Her investigative reports have also appeared in The Village Voice and The Minneapolis Star and Tribune.
As an investigative reporter, Ms. DiDio traveled the U.S. and the globe uncovering local, municipal and national scandals related to law enforcement, politics, and international drug trafficking and dumping of substandard and dangerous products onto unsuspecting consumers in Third World nations.
DiDio’s on camera investigative reports on CNN and other media outlets included exposes on defective pacemakers; exposes on automakers including Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen; a series of reports on the prostitution and vice industry; the auto theft industry; an in-depth look at ticket scalping and exposes of foreign students getting free housing subsidies at the expense of American taxpayers.
Laura DiDio holds a B.A. in Communications and a minor in French from Fordham University.
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