David M Smith

The latest special report, titled “The What, Why and When of Cloud Computing” is now live   It consists of 30 research notes and is the collective result of the work of over 20 analysts.  You can see the overview and the list of notes on gartner.com.  Gartner subscription is required to see the actual notes.

While the effort involved many, there is a core team of analysts focused on cloud computing here at Gartner. We are often asked who’s who so i thought this would be an opportune time to share that as well:

David Mitchell Smith (Cloud Agenda Manager – all cloud issues),

David Cearley (Co Agenda Manager – Cloud platforms and software),

Daryl Plummer (Cloud Theme Owner – all Cloud Issues)

Tom Bittman (Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualization and private clouds),

Lydia Leong (Cloud Infrastructure and Hosting).

Yefim Natis (Cloud Application Infrastructure, Application Platform as a Service)

Rob Desisto (Cloud applications, SaaS).

Tom Austin, (Cloud applications, email, collaboration)

Ben Pring (Cloud market data, SaaS)

many of us have personal blogs here on blogs.gartner.com