Analyst Profile

Bob Blakley

Gartner associate until 8/2012 , 37 years industry experience

Burton Group, VP and Distinguished Analyst, 3 years
DASCOM, Chief Scientist, 1 year
IBM, Chief Scientist, Security and Privacy, 17 years

ACSA Distinguised Security Practitioner, 2002

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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.)

23 Oct 2017
The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 Everyone is talking about blockchain, but there's a great deal of misunderstanding around this disruptive innovation. We find that 90% of enterprise blockchain projects actually don't need blockchain technology, and in fact would be better off without it. This session covers root causes for this misalignment, shows how to deal with avoidable mistakes in blockchain projects and how to conceive realistic projects that will deliver business value.
24 Oct 2017
Monetizing Public Cloud Opportunities in China, Russia and India EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 All IT markets are directly or indirectly disrupted by Cloud Services. Gartner predicts that through 2020 the Cloud shift will grow to $216 Billion. The magnitude of the cloud shift varies by market segment and geographic region. With this shift, incumbent infrastructure providers are exploring ways to defend their traditional business model. In this session, we'll provide Business Unit leaders at IT providers guidance on how they can benefit from the cloud shift in emerging markets.