Analyst Profile

Alan D Waite

Research Director

5 years at Gartner , 31 years industry experience
Brisbane, Australia

Roles and Responsibilities

Alan Waite is a Research Director in the Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) team. He works in the Cloud Operations and Management group, specializing in infrastructure and operations. Current areas of focus include hybrid cloud architectures, private cloud implementation, and evaluation of cloud management platforms.

Areas of Coverage

Data Management & Integration

Alan D Waite's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

A Guidance Framework for Selecting Cloud Management Platforms and Tools
27-Apr-2018
Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms and Tools
25-Apr-2018
Comparing the Approaches of Microsoft Azure Stack and 'VMware Cloud on AWS'
07-Feb-2018

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Utilizing Hybrid Architectures for Cloud Computing
13 November 2017

Background

Previous Experience

Mr. Waite has three decades of experience in the IT industry, having held positions ranging from systems engineer and solutions architect, to technical training and product management. He ran IBM technical training in Asia/Pacific for x86, system management and virtualization for five years. He then returned to Australia in the role of evangelist for enterprise infrastructure solutions and cloud. Before joining Gartner, he was the subject matter expert for converged integrated systems at IBM.

Professional Background

IBM, APAC Technical Evangelist, 27 years

Education

B.Sc., with honors, Physics and Mathematics, University of Queensland

Languages

English

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30 May 2018
Creating a Sustainable Strategy for Sourcing at Midsize Enterprises CIOs of midsize enterprises lack dedicated sourcing, procurement and relationship management resources. To remedy this, they must implement a pragmatic sourcing strategy that aligns with business goals, achieves the desired outcome of decisions, and leads to an understanding of the marketplace.
24 May 2018
The Resilience Premium of Digital Business: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Committing to resilience will equip your digital business with the mindset, resources and planning to recover from inevitable disruptions. Security and risk management leaders must deliver by building a culture of systemic resilience through viewing resilience as a premium and not as a cost.

25 Jun 2018
Overcome IT Cost Optimization Challenges EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00 It's now more critical than ever to understand enterprise technology spend in order to effectively optimize both cost and value. This webinar focuses on the challenges and Gartner Top 10 Recommended Cost Optimization Ideas to help you optimize cost to prepare for the future. Learn how to implement a cost optimization program to evaluate these and other cost optimization ideas in order to pick the right ones for your organization.
26 Jun 2018
Create a Roadmap to Architect a Digital Business Technology Platform EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | BST: 14:00 A digital business technology platform is built, not bought. This webinar reviews the Gartner strategic roadmap to architect a digital business platform. This insight will help you modernize your application infrastructure by implementing a multi-grained mesh app and service architecture (MASA) while pairing it with a pervasive, enterprise-wide integration competency.