by Lydia Leong | October 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ve been reading the social media reactions to my recent note on OpenStack, “Don’t Let OpenStack Hype Distort Your Selection of a Cloud Management Platform in 2012” (that’s a client link; a free public reprint without the executive summary is also available), and wanted to respond to some comments that are more centered on the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | July 23, 2012 | Comments Off
Richard Stiennon, a former colleague of mine (he was a security analyst at Gartner from 2000-2004), has just written a book, “UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence: A complete guide to analyst influence“. It’s a good guide to analyst relations in general, but it’s focused on Gartner, and especially the [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner, MQ
by Lydia Leong | May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments
So, I want to start this blog post by stressing that, like all of my posts, according to Gartner’s policies, it is strictly personal opinion. But I feel like this issue is important, and that I can say something constructive in the conversation around the role of women in technology and the culture of technology [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: culture, personal, women
by Lydia Leong | May 14, 2012 | Comments Off
So I caught an interesting Horses for Sources blog post via Twitter — Phil Fersht of HfS called out a blog post of ISG’s Stanton Jones discussing the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting that I published earlier this year. Stanton Jones’s argument seems to be that analysts sit in ivory towers, theorizing about suppliers, [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: blogosphere, Gartner, hosting, MQ
by Lydia Leong | March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
Back in December, I blogged about five reasons you should work at Gartner with me, and I’ve pleased to announce that Doug Toombs (formerly of Tier 1 Research / 451 Group) has joined my team. However, Ted Chamberlin, my long-time colleague, has decided he’d like a change of pace, and has just left us for [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, hosting, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | December 12, 2011 | 6 Comments
Gartner is hiring again! We’ve got a number of open positions, actually, and somewhat flexible about how we use the headcount; we’re looking for great people and the jobs can adapt to some extent based on what they know. This also means we’re flexible on seniority level — anywhere from about five years of experience [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, colocation, Gartner, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
People often ask me what it’s like to be an analyst at Gartner, and for me, the answer is, “It’s a life of constant client conversations.” Over the course of a typical year, I’ll do something on the order of 1,200 formal one-on-one conversations (or one-on-small-team, if the client brings in some other colleagues), generally [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, people
by Lydia Leong | October 16, 2011 | Comments Off
I am at Gartner Symposium in Orlando this week, and would happy to meet and greet anyone who feels like doing so. I am conducting a workshop on Thursday, at 11 am in Salon 7 in Yacht and Beach, called “Using Amazon Web Services“. (The workshop is full, but it’s always possible there may be [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | August 12, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve got a pair of new European colleagues, and I thought I’d take a moment to introduce, on my blog, the folks who cover public cloud infrastructure as a service here at Gartner, and to answer a common question about the way we cover the space here. There are three groups of analysts here at [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | August 7, 2011 | Comments Off
I will be at VMworld in Las Vegas this year. If you’re interested in meeting with me during VMworld, please do the following: Gartner clients and current prospects: Please contact your Gartner account executive to have them set up a meeting (they can use a Gartner internal system called WhereRU to schedule it). I’ve set [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, VMworld
