Analyst Profile

Brian Blau

Research VP

7 years at Gartner , 25 years industry experience
CA USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Brian Blau focuses his research on personal technologies and markets. His advice covers technical and business strategies as they relate to important and popular topics, including consumer social networks, the video game market, mobile apps, consumer ecosystems, wearable devices and apps, virtual reality and augmented reality, personal drones, and many other app, services, technologies and go-to-market strategies. He also provides advice about using personal technologies in IT. In addition, Mr. Blau is the Lead Analyst for Apple.

Areas of Coverage

Mobile & Wireless
Consumer Technologies

Brian Blau's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Cool Vendors in AI Core Technologies, 2017
16-May-2017
Willful Disruption: Three Ways That Facebook Disrupts
05-May-2017
Cool Vendors in Consumer Mobile Applications and Bots, 2017
03-May-2017

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

CES 2017
12 January 2017

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Blau has previously held diverse technical and leadership positions in the computer graphics, games and social networking companies. He has made significant contributions in the areas of technology-driven in-game advertising, developer-supported social networks, and visual simulation and animation tools. He also has extensive software development experience as a software development manager and developer advocate, as well as a startup founder and business manager. Mr. Blau was an early VRML pioneer and helped establish early network-based 3D tools and technologies. In addition, he has produced trade and technical conferences, including the Electronic Theater, and other major venues at the annual SIGGRAPH conferences. He also has judged art shows and film festivals, has been published, and likes to give industry talks.

Professional Background

Autodesk, Software Development Manager, 5 years
Bluerock Technologies, CEO, 3 years
Double Fusion, Director of Developer Relations, 3 years

Education

B.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1988
M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 1990

Languages

English

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22 May 2017
Retail Supply Chainnovators 2017: Argos Wins for Delivering Rapid, Convenient Fulfilment to Consumers Gartner's Supply Chainnovators program recognizes unconventional, innovative and high-impact initiatives that retailers use to transform their supply chain. Supply chain leaders can leverage the insights from this year's winner, Argos, to further innovation in their own supply chain.
22 May 2017
Healthcare Supply Chainnovators 2017: Intermountain Wins for Investment in the Home Healthcare Supply Chain This award recognizes innovative and high-impact initiatives to transform the IDN supply chain. Supply chain leaders can align home healthcare that follows the patient outside the hospital, cut costs and potentially reduce readmission rates using lessons from our winner: Intermountain Healthcare.

25 May 2017
Big Data Architectures: Comparing Relational and NoSQL Databases EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 In the big data arena, few choices are more important and impactful than the persistent data store. Relational and nonrelational databases such as NoSQL provide key characteristics and features to meet different use case requirements. This webinar discusses the benefits and shortcomings of different technologies through reference architectures to meet big data needs.
25 May 2017
Docker Containers in the Windows World EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 Docker's success has created a lot of buzz around application containers in the Linux world, but many enterprise applications run on Windows. In this webinar, we cover basic concepts in the Windows container world.