Gartner Expert

Daniel Bowers

Sr Director Analyst

Daniel Bowers is a Senior Director, Analyst focused on providing strategic advice to IT leaders on data center and cloud infrastructures. Mr. Bowers primary coverage areas include server and compute technologies, processors and GPUs, operating systems, virtualization, AI and hyperscale architectures, server performance benchmarking, and legacy server modernization.

Previous experience

In addition to 10 previous years at Gartner, Mr. Bowers held various infrastructure engineering and product management roles at Amazon, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft. He also was a Research Vice President at Ideas International, acquired by Gartner in 2012.

Professional background

Microsoft, Compute Strategic Planning, 1 years

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Compute Product Planning, 12 years

Amazon Web Services, Technical Program Management, 2 years

Areas of coverage

  • IT Contracts Negotiations

  • AI Vision, Strategy and Innovation

  • IT Operations and Cloud Management

  • I&O Strategy, Business Value and Cost Optimization

  • AI, Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure

Education

M.B.A., University of Houston

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Rice University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Server and hyperconverged infrastructure selection

02

Server, operating system, hypervisor, and container best practices and futures

03

Windows and Linux usage in the data center

04

Trends and emerging technologies in data center and public cloud compute

05

Legacy server management, migration and modernization

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