Analyst Profile

Lydia Leong

VP Distinguished Analyst

17 years at Gartner , 24 years industry experience
Arlington, VA USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Lydia Leong is a VP and Distinguished Analyst in the IT Leaders group at Gartner. Her coverage is focused on cloud computing and infrastructure strategies, particularly infrastructure as a service (IaaS), along with platform as a service (PaaS) as it intersects IaaS, but she also follows data centers, hosting, content delivery networks (CDNs) and other Internet infrastructure services. Because cloud computing is reshaping the IT landscape, her research covers a broad range of topics related to the transformation of IT organizations, data centers and technology providers. She works primarily with IT organizations, but she also produces strategic and quantitative research targeted at service providers, vendors and investors. She was Gartner's Analyst of the Year in 2010.

Areas of Coverage

Networking & Communications Services
Outsourcing & IT Services

Lydia Leong's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Critical Capabilities for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
11-Oct-2017
Market Guide for Public Cloud Container Services
10-Aug-2017
What VMware Cloud on AWS Will Be — and Won't Be
24-Jul-2017

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Leong held various technical and management positions in the Internet industry, including director of server engineering at Excite@Home and director of product engineering and operations at Digex/Intermedia Communications. Her prior roles have included product management, systems architecture, large-scale data center operations (including DevOps-style operations) and product development.

Professional Background

Digex, Director, Product Engineering and Operations, 3 years
Excite@Home, Director, Server Engineering, 1 year

Industry Awards/Accolades

"Cool Site of the Day," 29 October 1994
Gartner Analyst of the Year, 2010
Gartner Quantitative Research Excellence award, 2009
Gartner Thought Leadership award, 2008 and 2010

Education

Completed graduate courses in Computer Systems Management, University of Maryland's Graduate School of Management and Technology
Computer Science Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Languages

English

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3 October 2017
Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 The intelligent digital mesh is a foundation for future digital business and its ecosystems. To create competitive advantage, enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must evaluate these top trends to identify opportunities that their organizations can exploit.
29 September 2017
Maverick* Insights Drive Creative Destruction of Business as Usual: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Digitalization's pace and scale subverts conventional business thinking with constant "creative destruction." Faced with such turmoil, IT and business leaders must think and act in unconventional ways for their organizations to thrive. (Maverick research exposes unconventional thinking and advice.)

18 Oct 2017
Assessing a Blockchain Platform: A Technical Primer EDT: 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 17:00 Blockchain platforms are not created equally. They vary from enabling true decentralization of a business process to just implementing shared ledgers. Technical professionals need a clear understanding of blockchain platforms design goals and how to enable functional components before selecting a use case for proof of concept.
19 Oct 2017
Develop a Pragmatic Vision & Strategy for Digital Business Security EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 Digital business challenges the basic principles of information risk and security management. Risk and security leaders must understand the risks associated with digital innovation, and balance the imperative to protect the enterprise with the need to adopt innovative technology approaches.