Julia Palmer, a Research VP at Gartner, is recognized for her extensive knowledge and expertise in emerging infrastructure technologies and strategies. With a customer-centric approach, Ms. Palmer is dedicated to providing strategic advice to CIOs and IT leaders, empowering them to enhance infrastructure agility and drive innovation within their organizations. She specializes in addressing existing challenges and preparing for upcoming enterprise workloads across various environments, including core data centers, hybrid cloud, and edge.

Ms. Palmer's focus extends to a wide range of emerging technologies that are reshaping the IT landscape. These include distributed hybrid infrastructure, which combines the benefits of on-premises and cloud solutions, as well as distributed and sovereign cloud, hyperconverged infrastructures, virtualization platforms, software-defined storage, and hybrid and public cloud storage platforms. She also delves into sovereign AI infrastructure, distributed file systems and object storage, next-generation solid-state storage technology, container-native storage and composable infrastructure.

With over 25 years of combined IT end-user experience, Ms. Palmer possesses a wealth of knowledge in multiple areas of information technology. Her expertise spans storage infrastructure solutions and design, encompassing SAN, NAS, and object storage. She is well-versed in software-defined storage, web-scale data centers, server hardware, flash technologies, performance engineering and validation, R&D research, application performance analysis, virtualization, converged infrastructure, hyperconverged integrated systems, and solutions delivery for information technology offerings and cloud computing.

Ms. Palmer's deep understanding of the IT landscape, coupled with her extensive experience, positions her as a trusted advisor to organizations seeking to navigate the complexities of modern infrastructure technologies.