Hiroko Aoyama is covering on market trends and strategic planning for IT infrastructure centered on servers and storage, on-premise/datacenter modernization, and Consumption based price/XaaS models mainly for Japanese enterprise users.
Also, she provides advice on trend analysis and strategic planning for container platforms and OSS utilization and risk management, and IT operations-related trends(AIOps platform, Observability, APM, Monitoring, Infrastructure Automation, ITSM), those of skills and organization structure enhancement.
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Aoyama worked as a Chief Researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health Center of Neology and Psychiatry, concentrating on Social Psychiatry, and played a key role in the research with several institutions such as the National Space Development Agency of Japan and the National Institute of Polar Research. She has also worked for a Japanese software vendor as a system engineer and developed and maintained its information system including web, DBMS and several key open technologies.
Aplix Corporation
System Engineer
National Institute of Mental Health in Japan
Chief Researcher
I&O Operations Management
I&O Leaders and Future-Oriented Technologies in Japan
Security and Risk Management Leaders in Japan
I&O Platforms
Research, Psychology, Waseda University
M.Ed., Education/Psychology
B.A., Liberal Arts, International Christian University (ICU)
1Hybrid cloud from the perspectives of On-premise environments, digital transformation from legacy server systems
2Integrated Systems, HCI
3Compute platform, Data Center/On-premise Trends in Japan
4Virtualization, Containers, Kubernates trends in Japan
5OSS Infrastructure Trends in Japan