Analyst Profile
Nik Simpson
Research VP
11 years at Gartner
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34 years industry experience
United Kingdom
Roles and Responsibilities
Nik Simpson covers a variety of topics focused on these areas: 1. Infrastructure in the data center and public cloud 2. Infrastructure cloud cost modeling 3. Cloud exit planning 4. Hybrid cloud 5. Server operating systems and virtualization 6. Spectre and meltdown mitigation 7. Windows 10 migrations 8. Backup and Disaster Recovery questions 9. Cloud Decisions demos
Areas of Coverage
- Servers & Storage
Nik Simpson's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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Picking the Right AWS EC2 Instance for Your Workload Migration
09-Aug-2018 -
Designing a Public Cloud Exit Strategy
25-Apr-2018 -
Mitigating Spectre and Meltdown in the Enterprise
19-Mar-2018
Background
Previous Experience
Previously, Mr. Simpson held a variety of roles in product marketing/product management/product planning for products including workstations, servers, storage hardware, storage software, development tools and operating systems.
Professional Background
Datacore Software, Product Marketing Manager, 4 years
Intergraph Corp., Chief Technologist for IT Services Business Unit (among other titles), 13 years
Scentric, Director of Product Marketing (and Co-Founder), 3 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Co-author of SNIA's Guide to Storage Virtualization (2001)
Co-chair of SNIA's Information Lifecycle Management Initiative (2005-2007)
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science
Languages
English
