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Daniel Bowers
Sr Director Analyst
Daniel Bowers is a Research Director at Gartner, where he provides strategic advice to IT leaders on data center and cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on servers, hyperconverged systems, operating systems, virtualization, and containers. Mr. Bowers's experience with server compute extends over 25 years in both business and technical arenas.
Previous experience
Mr. Bowers joined Gartner following the company's acquisition of Ideas International. Prior to joining Ideas, he held various server engineering and marketing roles at companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gateway and Intel.
Professional background
Ideas International
Vice President and Senior Analyst
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Various
Gateway
Server Product Marketing
Areas of coverage
Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management
Data Center Infrastructure
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure
Industry Markets and Technologies
Negotiating IT Contracts
Education
M.B.A., University of Houston
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Server and hyperconverged infrastructure selection and contract reviews
2Server, operating system, hypervisor, and container best practices and futures
3Windows and Linux usage in the data center
4Trends and emerging technologies in data center and public cloud compute
5Legacy server management, migration and modernization