Gartner Expert

Jeff Vogel

VP Analyst

Jeff Vogel covers Storage and Platforms - on-premise, hybrid cloud, consumption-based models, agentic AI and sovereign platforms. Mr. Vogel's experience spans nearly 5 decades of Enterprise IT operations, emerging technologies and business models, product, M&A and start-up experience that spans multiple generations of compute and storage. Although he dedicates most of his time to the specific needs of Heads of I&O, he provides guidance and advice to technology executives concerning emerging and innovative technologies, disruptive business models and disruptive market strategies. Other areas of expertise include storage proposal reviews, cyber data resilience strategies and SLA-as-Code autonomous storage outcomes.

Previous experience

Prior to this, Mr. Vogel held executive roles in storage area networking (SAN), disk drive peripherals and data center operations.

Professional background

ClearDB, President and CEO, 3 years

Calpont / InfiniDB, President and CEO, 7 years

McDATA, SVP, Marketing, Strategy, Solutions, Alliances, 8 years

Areas of coverage
  • IT Operations and Cloud Management

  • I&O Strategy, Business Value and Cost Optimization

  • AI, Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure

Education

Electrical Engineering and Electronics, DeVry Institute

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Use of storage, cloud, technologies and architecture to address mission-critical priorities.

02

Developing and Operationalizing hybrid IT Cloud platforms

03

Sourcing, SLA and pricing strategies to address cost optimization, productivity and efficiency objectives.

04

Use of vendor storage technologies, tools, AIOps, automation and business model to address data modernization and IT operations

05

Hybrid Cloud IT Operations vs. Public Cloud infrastructure for mission critical database applications.