Gartner Expert
Brian Adler
Sr Director Analyst
Brian Adler is a Research Director within Gartner for Technical Professionals, focusing on public cloud, cloud strategy, application assessment, automation, and monitoring.
He brings more than 25 years of hands-on IT experience to his role at Gartner, and over a decade's worth of experience in the public cloud.
Previous experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Adler was Director of Enterprise Architecture at RightScale (now a part of Flexera), performing solution architecture assessments and managing a team of cloud solution engineers.
Mr. Adler has a background covering system administration, software development, software architecture, networking, and systems engineering.
Professional background
RightScale, Inc.
Director Enterprise Architecture
Textron
Principal Systems Engineer
Areas of coverage
IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals
Cloud Computing for Technical Professionals
Education
B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, Duke University
M.S., Software Systems and Modeling/Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Cloud strategy planning and adoption
2Application assessment for public cloud deployment
3Cloud cost optimization
4Public cloud management/governance
5Cloud Decisions/CloudMatch