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Douglas Toombs
VP Analyst
Douglas Toombs is a Research Vice President in Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) IT Operations and Cloud Strategies team. In his work, Mr. Toombs covers a wide variety of topics related to data center infrastructure, IT operations, and private and public cloud computing adoption strategies - including governance and financial management.
Previous experience
Douglas brings over 20 years of hands-on IT experience to his role at Gartner, including 10 years in the hosting and managed services industry. Based on his firsthand experiences of being both a customer and a vendor, he brings a deep understanding of the service provider landscape to Gartner clients and leverages that experience to help customers make smart decisions for their infrastructure needs.
Professional background
451 Research, Research Manager, 2 years
PSINet, Principal Microsoft Architect, 2 years
Sun Microsystems, Principal Engineer, 8 years
Areas of coverage
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IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals
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Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Education
Bachelor of Science, Business Information Systems, Messiah College
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Evaluating public cloud IaaS
Migrating to public cloud IaaS
Cloud strategy planning
Multicloud strategies