Analyst Profile
Ronni J. Colville
Ronni J. Colville
VP Distinguished Analyst
Ridgefield, CT USA
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Years of Experience
19 years at Gartner
30 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 area of research is configuration and release management, which encompasses 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 and virtual desktop. Additionally, she covers virtualization and cloud management technologies for both servers (provisioning, configuration auditing, patching, and so on) and PCs (HVD and application virtualization). Recently, Ms. Colville added coverage of DevOps with respect to application release automation. 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 Global Analyst of the Year (2007)
Education
B.S., Mathematics
B.S., Computer Science




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Know the Application Release Automation Vendor Landscape to Shortlist the Best Vendors for Your Organization 07-May-2013 Ronni J. Colville, Colin Fletcher
Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management, 2013 18-Apr-2013 Jeffrey M. Brooks, Patricia Adams, Ronni J. Colville, Milind Govekar, Jarod Greene, Will Cappelli, Tapati Bandopadhyay
Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2013 10-Apr-2013 Ronni J. Colville, Jonah Kowall, Colin Fletcher, Jim Duggan
Vendor Rating: CA Technologies 06-Mar-2013 Cameron Haight, Mike Chuba, Ronni J. Colville, Donna Scott, Milind Govekar, Daniel B. Stang, Terrence Cosgrove, Jarod Greene, Ian Head, Earl Perkins, John Rizzuto, Jonah Kowall, Jeffrey M. Brooks, Colin Fletcher, Dave Russell
Improve Patch Management by Assessing Maturity and Applying Best Practices to Your IT Systems 27-Feb-2013 Ronni J. Colville