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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
Areas of coverage
IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals
Cloud Computing for Technical Professionals
Data Center Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Education
B.Sc., with honors, Physics and Mathematics, University of Queensland
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1What do I have to think about as I evolve to a hybrid IT organization?
2How do I adapt IT to become a broker of cloud services?
3How do I manage running multiple traditional, public and private cloud services?
4Do I really need a private cloud, or can our workloads that require infrastructure isolation be serviced by virtualization or virtualization automation?
5How do I choose cloud management platforms and tools for my multicloud environment?