Aneel Lakhani Research Director Brooklyn USA Years of Experience 1 year at Gartner 16 years IT industry Areas of Coverage IT Operations View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Aneel Lakhani is a Director at Gartner Research. His primary area of research focus is the adoption and operation of virtualization and cloud computing in the enterprise. This includes issues related to strategy and planning, adoption, operations patterns, architecture, management platforms, operations tools, and organizational setup. Previous Experience Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Lakhani spent nearly two years at Cisco Systems in a marketing role focused on data center, virtualization, cloud, big data, and high-frequency trading infrastructures and solutions. Prior to that, Mr. Lakhani spent eight years with IBM in Global Technology Services in varied roles, including network engineering, infrastructure architecture and product management. Professional Background Cisco, Marketing Manager, Data Center and Virtualization, 2 years IBM, Global Product Manager, Data Center Networking Services, 2 years IBM, Infrastructure Architect, Global Technology Services, 6 years Education B.S., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) Survey Analysis: What ITOM Tool Vendors Should Know About SaaS, Cloud and What Buyers Want 11-Apr-2013 Jeffrey M. Brooks, Aneel Lakhani, Laurie F. Wurster Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2013 10-Apr-2013 Donna Scott, Milind Govekar, Gregor Petri, Aneel Lakhani Prepare for VMware as a Virtual IT Operations Management Vendor 10-Apr-2013 Aneel Lakhani Managing Virtualization Today for Cloud Tomorrow 09-Jan-2013 Aneel Lakhani, Jonah Kowall Vendor Rating: BMC Software 25-Sep-2012 Ronni J. Colville, Milind Govekar, Daniel B. Stang, Laurie F. Wurster, John Rizzuto, Jonah Kowall, Jeffrey M. Brooks, Aneel Lakhani, Jarod Greene, Ian Head