Analyst Profile
Carl Claunch
Carl Claunch
VP Distinguished Analyst
Los Altos, CA USA
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Years of Experience
16 years at Gartner
43 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Servers & Storage

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Roles and Responsibilities
Carl Claunch leads Gartner research into high-performance computing, providing advice and insights to users, buyers, technology providers and investors. He focuses on a broad range of timeframes, from current trends and practices to long-range technologies and transformations a decade or two in the future. Mr. Claunch's other responsibilities include forward-looking research into technologies and trends for the general server space, to help identify discontinuities and transitions in order to advise clients on ways to benefit and strategies to mitigate impacts from those changes. In addition, he conducts integrative research across many other areas of IT, highlighting significant trends, technologies and directions, which he delivers widely in presentations and special reports.
Previous Experience
Mr. Claunch has 42 years of experience in the high-technology area. Prior to joining Gartner, he spent 18 years working at a major vendor in a variety of marketing, product line management, product management and planning roles. He has worked for IT using organizations in fields such as banking and manufacturing, as well as working for vendors and as a consultant.
Professional Background
Hitachi Data Systems, Director (Product Marketing, Program Management, Others), 18 years
Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Assistant Manager, 5 years




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Cool Vendors in the Server Market, 2013 01-May-2013 Andrew Butler, Carl Claunch, Mark A. Margevicius, George J. Weiss
The Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 12-Feb-2013 David W. Cearley, Carl Claunch
Taxonomy, Definitions and Vendor Landscape for In-Memory Computing Technologies 19-Sep-2012 Massimo Pezzini, W. Roy Schulte, Donald Feinberg, James Richardson, Roxane Edjlali, Joseph Unsworth, Andrew Norwood, Carl Claunch
Six Best Practices for Implementing Shared Higher Education High-Performance Computing Facilities and the Cloud 13-Sep-2012 Carl Claunch
YarcData's uRiKA Shows Big Data Is More Than Hadoop and Data Warehouses 11-Sep-2012 Carl Claunch