Analyst Profile
Philip Dawson
Philip Dawson
Research VP
Reading United Kingdom
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Years of Experience
10 years at Gartner
23 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Servers & Storage
Open Source

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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
Meta Group, Vice President, 5 years
Sequent Computer Systems, Competitive Market Research Manager, 5 years
Santa Cruz Operation, Product Marketing Manager, 3 years
Education
B.A. (honors), Computing in Business, Huddersfield Polytechnic
Diploma, Computer Studies
Languages
English - Yorkshire




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Partner Endorsements Are Key to Success of VCE Coalition 09-Nov-2009 Philip Dawson
Selecting Data Warehouse, Infrastructure and HPC Servers for SEM 'Discrete Workloads' 02-Sep-2009 Andrew Butler, Philip Dawson
Selecting Application and OLTP DBMS Servers: SEM 'n-Tier Workloads' 07-Aug-2009 Philip Dawson, Andrew Butler
Selecting Virtualization and Consolidation Platforms: SEM 'Combination Workloads' 07-Aug-2009 Philip Dawson, Andrew Butler
Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2009 29-Jul-2009 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