Analyst Profile
Thomas J. Bittman
Thomas J. Bittman
VP Distinguished Analyst
Stamford, CT USA
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Years of Experience
18 years at Gartner
30 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Servers & Storage

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Roles and Responsibilities
Thomas Bittman is a vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research. Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as cloud computing and virtualization. Mr. Bittman was an early pioneer for the concept of private cloud computing, and invented the term "real-time infrastructure," which has been adopted by major vendors and many enterprises as their infrastructure direction. He has served as Gartner's lead analyst covering IBM and Microsoft, and he served for three years as a member of Gartner's Senior Research Board. In 2005, he earned Gartner's Analyst of the Year Award.
Previous Experience
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Bittman was a division plan manager and chief software engineer with IBM, where he had development responsibility for four operating systems.
Professional Background
CSC, Associate Member of Technical Staff, 1 year
IBM, Chief Software Engineering Manager and Software Lab Plan Manager, 11 year
Education
Completed postgraduate work in Management and Strategic Planning
B.S., Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Physics, University of Kansas




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Vendor Rating: Citrix 02-May-2013 Drue Reeves, Thomas J. Bittman, Mark Fabbi, Mark A. Margevicius, Tiffani Bova, John Rizzuto, Alessandro Perilli
Top 10 Technology Trends, 2013: Cloud Computing and Hybrid IT Drive Future IT Models 06-Feb-2013 David W. Cearley, Donna Scott, Joe Skorupa, Thomas J. Bittman
Vendor Rating: VMware 11-Jan-2013 Chris Wolf, Ronni J. Colville, David Mitchell Smith, Thomas J. Bittman, Yefim V. Natis, Neil MacDonald, Mark A. Margevicius, Stewart Buchanan, John Rizzuto, Matthew W. Cain
Predicts 2013: Cloud Computing Becomes an Integral Part of IT 04-Dec-2012 David Mitchell Smith, Daryl C. Plummer, Thomas J. Bittman, Tiffani Bova, Monica Basso, Benoit J. Lheureux, Brian Prentice
Get Past the Confusion Surrounding Hybrid Cloud Computing 22-Oct-2012 Thomas J. Bittman, David W. Cearley