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Alan D Waite

Managing Vice President

Alan Waite is a Managing Vice President in Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) managing Cloud Infrastructure and Operations team. His team covers cloud adoption, datacenter and infrastructure strategy, and comparison of cloud service providers. Previously, Mr. Waite was a senior research analyst covering hybrid and multicloud architectures.

Previous experience

Previously to working at Gartner, Mr. Waite had 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

Areas of coverage

  • IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals

Education

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

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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What do I have to think about as I evolve to a hybrid IT organization?

02

How do I adapt IT to become a broker of cloud services?

03

How do I manage running multiple traditional, public and private cloud services?

04

Do I really need a private cloud, or can our workloads that require infrastructure isolation be serviced by virtualization or virtualization automation?

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How do I choose cloud management platforms and tools for my multicloud environment?