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Carolin Zhou
Sr Director Analyst
Carolin Zhou is a Senior Director, Analyst at Gartner focusing on Infrastructure Cloud Strategy, which includes public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud management, cloud migration, cloud architecture, cloud management tool, platform service providers (AWS, Alibaba, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Tencent, etc), DevOps, CI/CD, container technologies and distributed systems, etc.
Previous experience
Prior to her career in research, Ms. Zhou has 15 years of experience in IT area with a focus on enterprise architecture, IT governance, shared service management and architecture transformation, API management, Cloud strategy and cloud migration management, solution architecture, big data, IoT, DevOps and IT compliance and risk management, etc.
Professional background
BMW China Automotive Trading Ltd.
Region China Lead Enterprise Architect
Lenovo
Senior IT Governance Manager and Enterprise Architect
Baidu Ltd
Senior Data Mining Manager
Areas of coverage
Applications and Software Engineering Leaders
Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Leaders
I&O Operations Management
Data Center Infrastructure
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure
Education
MSC in e-Business Management, University of Warwick
BSC in Optoelectronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1How to choose the right cloud native service as well as platform services?
2How to build cloud strategy and cloud migration strategy for public cloud/hybid cloud?
3Cloud reference architecture for multiple cloud, like: AWS, Azure and Ali Cloud, etc.
4DevOps, Container technologies as well as operation model for Cloud/Hybrid Cloud Adoption
5Cloud Native Architecture, and Hybrid Cloud Cost Optimization