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
by Lydia Leong | January 10, 2011 | 8 Comments
There’ve been a number of ongoing dialogues on Twitter, on Quora, and various people’s blogs about the Magic Quadrant. I thought, however, that it would be helpful to talk about the process of doing a Magic Quadrant, before I write another blog post that explains how we came to our current cloud-and-hosting MQ. We lay [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | December 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Gartner is hiring cloud experts! We’re going to be hiring two analysts who are based in Europe. They’ll cover cloud computing and networking — specifically, they’ll be European counterparts to myself and Ted Chamberlin. That means we’re looking for people who know cloud IaaS, hosting and colocation, and, if possible, have some background in networking [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Prospects or Gartner clients who want to meet with me: I will be in Los Angeles on November 18th, and in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 22nd and 23rd. If you want to meet while I’m there, contact your account executive. I’ll also be at Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit in [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
I will be at three Gartner conferences during the remainder of this year. I will be at Symposium ITxpo Orlando. My main session here will be The Great Debate: Shared-Hardware vs. Shared-Everything Multitenancy, or Amazon’s Apples vs. Force.com’s Oranges. (Or for those of you who heard Larry Ellison’s OpenWorld keynote, Oracle ExaLogic vs. Salesforce.com…) The [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I will be at VMworld Europe this week. I am speaking on Wednesday, October 13th, at 10:30 am, giving a short tutorial on outsourcing cloud infrastructure as a service. This is an NTT Communications-sponsored session. I also expect to be available to answer questions at NTT’s booth during that day. During the rest of the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
