Analyst Profile

Donald Feinberg

VP Distinguished Analyst

27 years at Gartner , 51 years industry experience
Brazil

Roles and Responsibilities

Donald Feinberg is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in the Gartner ITL Data and Analytics group. Mr. Feinberg is responsible for Gartner's research on database management systems and data warehousing infrastructure and big data.

Areas of Coverage

Business Intelligence
Data Management & Integration

Donald Feinberg's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2017
26-Jul-2017
State of the Operational DBMS Market, 2017
25-Jul-2017
New Pricing Models for Cloud DBMSs Provide Cost Optimization Opportunities
10-May-2017

On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars

Open Source DBMS 2017: Rewriting the Rules
26 January 2017

Background

Previous Experience

Before his current role, Mr. Feinberg held various management jobs within Gartner, most recently VP and general manager of Latin American operations. He began his career at Gartner in the Software Management Strategies group responsible for DBMS software and vendors. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Feinberg worked at Oracle, where he was director of technical marketing for the company's IBM mainframe database business. In this capacity, he was responsible for technical sales and marketing support of the products worldwide. Previously, he was an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston University. Mr. Feinberg resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Professional Background

BXLE Associates, Principal, 10 years
Boston University, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 10 years
Oracle, Director, Product Marketing, 3 years

Education

B.S., Mathematics, University of Minnesota
M.S., Mathematics, Boston University

Languages

English
Portuguese

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11 July 2017
Capitalizing on Your Business Ecosystems Economy: A Gartner Trend Insight Report Organizations are increasingly focusing outward on their business ecosystems to fuel innovation. To capitalize on these opportunities, CIOs must develop a proactive strategy for engaging in their business ecosystems, and select the right mix of business and technology to support this strategy.
7 July 2017
Forecast Alert: IT Spending, Worldwide, 2Q17 Update Gartner's forecast for 2017 worldwide dollar-valued IT spending growth has been revised up 1.0% to 2.4%, an increase from 0.3% in 2016. The constant-currency forecast is unchanged at 3.3% for 2017. Technology product management leaders should pay close attention to currency fluctuations in 2017.

27 Jul 2017
Cool Vendors for 2017: The Digital Nail Gets Hammered, So Be the Hammer EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 The use of technology has reached a point where hard problems are being solved and easy problems are being exploited due to digital opportunity. The Cool Vendors for 2017 Special Report examines disruptive vendors that solve long-existing problems and that sometimes stand out because they make it seem easy.
27 Jul 2017
Calculating Cost of Ownership for Cloud and On-Premises Data Management Platforms EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 Cloud and dbPaaS represent a different financial model for procuring and consuming services. This presentation explores the key differences between on-premises, IaaS and dbPaaS approaches to DBMS deployment and outlines a framework for calculating cost of ownership.