Gartner Tech and Service Providers Expert
Paul Delory
Sr Director Analyst
Paul Delory is a Research Director on the Data Center and Cloud Operations team within Gartner Technology Professionals Research. Mr. Delory provides deep technical expertise to systems administrators and the vendors who serve them. His research centers on automation and next-generation infrastructure. He frequently discusses automation, virtualization, private and hybrid cloud architectures, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, composable infrastructure, integrated systems, DevOps tools, and the emerging software-defined data center movement.
Previous experience
Before joining Gartner in 2015, Mr. Delory was an engineer and subject matter expert on virtualization for several large healthcare organizations. Most recently, he was Lead Virtualization Engineer for Fresenius Medical Care, where he served as a technical lead for a team of six engineers whose sole focus was the virtualization platform (technologies from VMware and Citrix).
As an engineer, Mr. Delory specialized in scripting and data center automation. He has extensive experience with common languages such as PowerShell and Ruby, and with automation and orchestration products such as Microsoft SCCM and VMware vRealize. He has deployed multiple desktop virtualization environments, using both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop; and multiple application virtualization environments, using both VMware ThinApp and Microsoft App-V. He has hands-on engineering experience with hyperconverged integrated systems. He has built and supported all manner of traditional x86 servers.
Before beginning his career in enterprise IT, Mr. Delory was an entrepreneur and college-level educator. He created a new and innovative line of computer diagnostic and repair tools, for which he was awarded multiple U.S. patents, and he founded Siderion Corp. to market these tools. He also served as an adjunct instructor at Middlesex Community College, where he taught English composition and ethics.
Professional background
Lead Virtualization Engineer
Fresenius Medical Care
Senior Network Server Engineer
Boston Medical Center
Systems Engineer
Partners Healthcare
Areas of coverage
Product Strategy and Launch for Tech CEOs
Product Development
IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals
Cloud Computing for Technical Professionals
Data Center Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Education
B.A., magna cum laude, double major in Philosophy and English Literature, University of Massachusetts
Graduate studies in Philosophy, Boston College
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Automating infrastructure and application delivery
2[Vendor clients] Product strategy for converged, hyperconverged, or composable infrastructure
3Selecting a hyperconverged vendor or product
4Designing an automation strategy
5Virtual machine and container architecture, performance tuning, sizing, and configuration best practices