Analyst Profile

Ed Holub

Research VP

12 years at Gartner , 29 years industry experience
TX USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Ed Holub is a Research Vice President providing broad coverage for the IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) role with a focus on organization, staffing, culture and other people, process and strategy-related issues involved in enhancing I&O maturity. During more than a decade at Gartner, Mr. Holub also served as agenda manager for IT operations research, a Leadership Partner acting as a trusted advisor and coach to senior I&O executives in large organizations as well as a Managing Vice President leading a global team of analysts covering virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies and management processes.

Areas of Coverage

IT Operations

Ed Holub's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

ITScore for Infrastructure and Operations
28-Jul-2017
Build I&O Staff Talent to Support Bimodal, DevOps and Cloud
25-May-2017
Toolkit: Use ITSIO to Create a Service Improvement Project Plan
09-Mar-2017

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Holub spent 17 years in IT infrastructure and operations at USAA, a Fortune 200 diversified financial services company. His experience at USAA included executive-level positions responsible for E-commerce operations, operations architecture, enterprise systems management, QA/testing, server management and desktop management. Mr. Holub also served as product manager as USAA's internal IT department was successfully transformed to run IT like a business.

Professional Background

USAA, Assistant Vice President, IT Operations, 17 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

Gartner Thought Leadership Award, 2010

Education

B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics and Systems Design, University of Texas at San Antonio
M.B.A., Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio

Languages

English

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11 August 2017
2017 Hype Cycles Highlight Enterprise and Ecosystem Digital Disruptions: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Leading CIOs are engaged across and outside their enterprises to create new business opportunities and improve operational effectiveness. Gartner's 2017 Hype Cycle special report focuses on the biggest trends influencing technology-enabled businesses.
28 July 2017
Scaling Bimodal — Fusing IT With the Business: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Scaling bimodal enables organizations to transform their businesses by exploiting technology strategically. We offer research to help CIOs and IT leaders scale a bimodal approach to collaborate with the business, increase speed, agility and innovation; and deliver on digital business.

17 Aug 2017
Data Governance in the Time of Big Data Architectures EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 Data governance has been indispensable for data management initiatives, including those involving big data. In addition, new regulations such as GDPR are forcing deeper introspection into how data is managed, secured and audited - from ingestion to purge. This webinar showcases a big data reference architecture and then applies components of the data governance framework to it.
21 Aug 2017
IoT for Midsize Enterprises EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 IoT innovation can deliver growth and product improvement - two of the top business priorities cited by CEOs of midsize enterprises in a recent Gartner survey. However the IoT also poses challenges for midsize enterprises that may not be able to adopt the same technologies, vendors or strategies as larger organizations. In this webinar, we explore how midsize enterprises can exploit the IoT and how to navigate the complex technology, skills and business landscape it demands.