Analyst Profile
Thomas J. Bittman
Thomas J. Bittman
VP Distinguished Analyst
Stamford, CT USA
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Years of Experience
14 years at Gartner
26 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, 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




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Getting Starting With Private Cloud: Services First 29-Oct-2009 Thomas J. Bittman
Server Virtualization: One Path That Leads to Cloud Computing 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
Hype Cycle for ERP, 2009 15-Sep-2009 Denise Ganly, James Richardson, Tim Payne, Pat Phelan, Andrew White, Claudio Da Rold, Kimberly Collins, Gene Phifer, Deborah R Wilson, Benoit J. Lheureux, Jeff Woods, John Radcliffe, Rita L. Sallam, Kurt Schlegel, Carol Rozwell, Thomas Otter, James Holincheck, Christian Hestermann, Johan Jacobs, Jim Davies, Eric Knipp, Nigel Rayner, Yvonne Genovese, French Caldwell, Paul E. Proctor, Thomas J. Bittman, Janelle B. Hill, David Mitchell Smith, Whit Andrews, Michele Cantara