Analyst Profile

Philip Dawson

Research VP

18 years at Gartner , 30 years industry experience
United Kingdom

Roles and Responsibilities

Philip Dawson is a Vice President and Agenda Manager in Gartner Research. He specializes in infrastructure modernization, cloud, ERP and server platforms. Mr. Dawson is a leading authority on Linux, Unix and Windows server infrastructure strategies. He focuses on virtualization, portfolio consolidation, ERP migration and rationalization processes, and enabling cloud delivery as key components of his coverage. He has been at Gartner for 17 years and has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry.

Areas of Coverage

Open Source
Servers & Storage

Philip Dawson's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Simplifying Mode 1 Workload Infrastructures
28-Jun-2017
Designing Servers for IoT Edge Environments
22-Jun-2017
Cool Vendors in Cloud Infrastructure, 2017
05-May-2017

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner through the Meta Group acquisition, Mr. Dawson was a Competitive Market Research Manager for Sequent Computer Systems, Europe. In this role, he worked in Product Marketing, helping develop Unix/NT Integration Strategies and the introduction of Intel IA-32/IA-64 NUMA platforms. Before this, he worked at Santa Cruz Operation as product marketing manager for all layered products.

Professional Background

Meta Group, Vice President, 5 years
Santa Cruz Operation, Product Marketing Manager, 3 years
Sequent Computer Systems, Competitive Market Research Manager, 5 years

Education

B.A., with honors, Computing in Business, Huddersfield Polytechnic
Diploma, Computer Studies

Languages

English
Yorkshire

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15 June 2017
IoT Technology Disruptions: A Gartner Trend Insight Report IoT's rapidly evolving technologies have ushered in innovative disruptions at a breakneck pace. This report highlights Gartner research that covers these IoT technical disruptions in five key areas: security, artificial intelligence, data and analytics, communications, and endpoint technology.
31 May 2017
Digital Trust — Redefining Trust for the Digital Era: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Trust underpins every interaction, but traditional trust models do not scale to the scope, spontaneity and agency required in digital business. Digital trust emerges to establish and manage trust in the myriad digital interactions and relationships between businesses, individuals and things.

29 Jun 2017
Will the Cloud Save Me Money? Or Am I About to Waste a Lot? EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 The cloud is often seen as a great way of saving money, but there is an emerging trend of organizations that cannot prove a ROI. We examine the common financial and operational misconceptions of moving applications to the cloud and where others have gone wrong.
29 Jun 2017
Gartner Vision: Intelligent Automation Services (RPA, Chatbots, AI) EDT: 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 17:00 There was a shift in the tectonic plates (core foundation) of business and IT services at the turn of this century with the offshore wave (labor arbitrage). We are now in the midst of the next big tectonic shift via automation arbitrage, a term Gartner is using to describe the recalibration of human labor to drive business outcomes. The disruption of artificial intelligence and related technologies (RPA, chatbots, machine learning, and cognitive) is here, and more is on the way. In this webinar, we present the Gartner vision on the impacts to business and IT services. This will likely be one of the most important conversations in the next decade - how automation will change the value proposition in all organizations.