Roles and Responsibilities

Gaspar Valdivia is a Senior Director Analyst in the CIO Research Group at Gartner. Mr. Valdivia's research coverage is focused on enterprise networking services market, particularly on wide area networks, internet, and private cloud connectivity, as well as the adoption of 5G for enterprise services. He supports clients in aspects such as evaluation of WAN services and service providers, trend and evolution of network services, WAN architectures, hybrid WAN, internet connectivity, broadband services, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity services and use of wireless connectivity, including 5G, for enterprise networking use cases. He has also helped product leaders at communication service providers evolve their enterprise service portfolios and offerings through the adoption of software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies. Mr Valdivia is lead analyst for BT Group within Gartner.