Analyst Profile
Ronni J. Colville
Managing VP
23 years at Gartner
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33 years industry experience
CT USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Ronni Colville is a Managing Vice President in the IT Operations Management group in Gartner Research. Ms. Colville manages a team of analysts who focus on automation tools and technologies in support of IT operations infrastructure and DevOps for both Mode 1 and Mode 2 projects. She was an analyst in Gartner for more than 20 years, with her primary area of research being configuration and release management. Now her team covers these topics as well as a broad array of technology and process topics, including (but not limited to) server provisioning and configuration, configuration assessment and remediation, patch management, and IT process and service orchestration tools. Her team also covers virtualization and cloud management technologies. Ms. Colville added coverage of DevOps to her team with respect to application release automation and infrastructure as code (aka continuous configuration tools).
Areas of Coverage
- IT Operations
Ronni J. Colville's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
Background
Previous Experience
For 10 years prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Colville was a senior networking specialist at IBM, where she assisted Fortune 100 clients and midsize enterprises with development and deployment of their networking and communications architecture.
Professional Background
IBM, Senior Networking Specialist, 10 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Gartner Global Analyst of the Year (2007)
Education
B.S., Computer Science
B.S., Mathematics
Languages
English
