Thomas J. Bittman VP Distinguished Analyst Stamford, CT USA Years of Experience 15 years at Gartner 27 years IT industry Areas of Coverage Servers & Storage View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner 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, virtualization and infrastructure evolution. Mr. Bittman 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 LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) Predicts 2010: Cloud Computing Emerges From the Hype, Scope and Issues Demand Clarification 07-Dec-2009 David Mitchell Smith, Yefim V. Natis, Gene Phifer, Susan Tan, Thomas J. Bittman, Martin Reynolds, Joe Skorupa, Daryl C. Plummer Server Virtualization: One Path That Leads to Cloud Computing 29-Oct-2009 Thomas J. Bittman Getting Starting With Private Cloud: Services First 29-Oct-2009 Thomas J. Bittman Q&A: The Many Aspects of Private Cloud Computing 22-Oct-2009 Thomas J. Bittman Virtual Machines and Market Share Through 2012 07-Oct-2009 Thomas J. Bittman