Michael Dortch is a Senior Analyst at Aberdeen Group, focusing on enabling and emerging technologies and information management. Michael joined Aberdeen Group after nearly 10 years at Robert Frances Group (RFG) in various capacities, most recently as Director of IT Infrastructure Management Strategies and Executive Editor.

Michael has been an Information Technology (IT) industry analyst, consultant, "information entrepreneur"; and writer for nearly 30 years. Before joining RFG, Michael developed white papers, executive presentations, marketing programs and strategies for influencing press and analysts for numerous organizations. Clients included; T Solutions, Lotus Development Corp. (now part of IBM Corp.), Novell Inc., Santa Cruz Operation (now Tarantella, Inc.), Sun Microsystems, Inc., and large and small corporate users of IT.

Michael was also formerly the Director of Special Projects for NetGuide; Vice President of Marketing then Vice President and Chief Evangelist for UTG, Inc.; Senior Writer for Communications Week; Manager of Information Technologies, then Senior Analyst, then Manager of West Coast Research for The Yankee Group; and a founding member of the Advisory Board of Verité. In 1990 he wrote "The ABCs of Local Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. He and his wife live in Santa Rosa, CA, just north of San Francisco.