Gartner Expert
Mindy Cancila
Practice Vice President
Mindy Cancila works as a Managing Vice President in Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) managing the Data Center and Cloud Operations team. Ms. Cancila has been with Gartner for five years. Her team covers cloud adoption strategy, comparing and selecting public cloud service providers for IaaS, Cloud management, Agile and DevOps, Monitoring, and IT Service Management. Previously, Ms. Cancila was the agenda manager for the cloud computing research in GTP.
Previous experience
Before joining Gartner, Ms. Cancila worked in Dell's Enterprise Strategy group researching cloud adoption patterns to help define private and hybrid cloud strategies. She also spent two years focused on Dell's storage strategy, including software-defined storage and scale-out architectures. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Cancila worked for 10 years at HP, focused on x86 server hardware and software development and program management.
Professional background
Dell
Enterprise Strategy
HP
Industry Standard Servers Development
Areas of coverage
IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals
Cloud Computing for Technical Professionals
Data Center Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Education
B.S., Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Public cloud management
2Cloud adoption strategy - public, private and hybrid
3Creating a cloud business case
4Identifying and mitigating risk in public cloud computing
5Application migration for public cloud