by Aneel Lakhani | February 25, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Ethan and Greg over at PacketPushers asked me to come on the podcast to talk about what it’s like to be an analyst and grill me on some topics about analyst life and perceptions of the industry. Listen at Show 137 – Gartner Is Not for Sale With @Aneel Lakhani. With Gartner’s blessing, Aneel came on the show [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | February 14, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It’s been a little over a year since I joined Gartner and some things about startups, especially the cloud platform and management variety, stick out one anlayst-year in. 1. Many startups don’t know what to do with their product. They’re pursuing the wrong market, promoting the wrong feature, using the wrong metaphor, blowing the product [...]
by Aneel Lakhani | February 13, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It’s been a little over a year since I joined Gartner and some things about cloud stick out one anlayst-year in. 1. Cloud consumption is fragmented. I can find no single pattern or market or threshold function that tips any given organization over into using or building cloud services. If I take the aggregate of [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | February 11, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It’s been a little over a year since I joined Gartner. Some things about analysis stick out one anlayst-year in. 1. Numbers don’t lie, but beware averages, timescales, local min/max-es and the like. You have to dig deep for the real story. Everyone knows this and nearly no one does it. I interact with too [...]
