Analyst Profile
Ronni J. Colville
Ronni J. Colville
VP Distinguished Analyst
Ridgefield, CT USA
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Years of Experience
15 years at Gartner
26 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
IT Operations

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Roles and Responsibilities
Ronni Colville is a VP, Distinguished Analyst in the IT Operations Management group in Gartner Research. Ms. Colville's primary areas of research are configuration and release management, which include a broad array of technology topics, including (but not limited to) CMDB, server provisioning and configuration, IT service dependency mapping technologies, configuration auditing, patch management, and PC configuration management. The latest addition to her area of coverage includes virtualization configuration technologies for both servers (provisioning, configuration auditing, patching, and so on) and PCs (HVD and application virtualization). In addition to technologies, Ms. Colville covers both configuration and release management processes for production environments.
Previous Experience
For 10 years prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Colville was a senior networking specialist at IBM, where she assisted Fortune 100 clients and midsize enterprises with development and deployment of their networking and communications architecture.
Professional Background
IBM, Senior Networking Specialist, 10 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Gartner Analyst of the Year (2007)
Education
B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, Pace University
Gartner Global Analyst of the Year (2007)




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CMDB Organizational Approaches for Success 17-Nov-2009 Ronni J. Colville
Configuration Auditing Vendor Landscape, 2009 17-Nov-2009 Ronni J. Colville, Mark Nicolett
BMC Adds Another IT Service DM Vendor to Its Portfolio 04-Nov-2009 Patricia Adams, Ronni J. Colville
Toolkit: How to Ease Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Through CMDB and Dependency Mapping 30-Oct-2009 Ronni J. Colville, Patricia Adams
BMC Will Use Tideway Technology to Shore Up Its CMDB Offerings 26-Oct-2009 Ronni J. Colville, Patricia Adams