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Philip Dawson
Research VP
Reading United Kingdom
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Years of Experience
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10 years at Gartner
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23 years IT industry
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Roles and Responsibilities
Philip Dawson is a vice president in Gartner Research and specializes in virtualization and server selection. Mr. Dawson is a leading authority on virtualization of Linux, Unix and Windows infrastructure platforms. Virtualization and partitioning capabilities, portfolio consolidation, and rationalization processes are key to his virtualization coverage. He is also the co-author of the Server Evaluation Model, which selects servers by workload and aligns server technology platforms to business needs.
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner through the Meta Group acquisition, Mr. Dawson was competitive market research manager for Sequent Computer Systems, Europe. In this role, he worked within product marketing, helping develop UNIX/NT Integration Strategies and the introduction of Intel IA32/IA64 NUMA platforms. Before this, he worked at Santa Cruz Operation as product marketing manager for all layered products.
Professional Background
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Meta Group, Vice President, 5 years
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Sequent Computer Systems, Competitive Market Research Manager, 5 years
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Santa Cruz Operation, Product Marketing Manager, 3 years
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Education
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B.A. (honors), Computing in Business, Huddersfield Polytechnic
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Diploma, Computer Studies
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Languages
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English - Yorkshire
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Publish Date
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Author(s)
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Partner Endorsements Are Key to Success of VCE Coalition
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09-Nov-2009
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Philip Dawson
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Selecting Data Warehouse, Infrastructure and HPC Servers for SEM 'Discrete Workloads'
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02-Sep-2009
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Andrew Butler, Philip Dawson
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Selecting Application and OLTP DBMS Servers: SEM 'n-Tier Workloads'
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07-Aug-2009
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Philip Dawson, Andrew Butler
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Selecting Virtualization and Consolidation Platforms: SEM 'Combination Workloads'
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07-Aug-2009
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Philip Dawson, Andrew Butler
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Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2009
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29-Jul-2009
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Donna Scott, Ronni J. Colville, Kris Brittain, Carl Claunch, Debra Curtis, David Williams, John R. Phelps, Dave Russell, Milind Govekar, Will Cappelli, Stewart Buchanan, Philip Dawson, Daryl C. Plummer, Rakesh Kumar, Thomas J. Bittman, Naveen Mishra, Andrew Butler, Jeffrey Hewitt
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