Gartner Expert

Ed Anderson

Distinguished VP Analyst

Ed Anderson focuses his research on cloud and AI markets. His research includes cloud and AI market trends, forecasts, market share, the vendor landscape, as well as practical issues such as as strategy, sourcing and vendor engagement. He tracks different cloud usage cases, including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios. Cloud adoption often means employing consulting, implementation, migration and managed services, and Mr. Anderson provides a perspective on the landscape of IT service providers delivering these capabilities.

In addition to cloud computing and AI, Mr. Anderson also covers sustainability as a key priority for customers and technology & service providers. His focus is specifically on cloud and how to work with vendors to achieve meaningful sustainability outcomes.

Mr. Anderson splits his time between end-user clients and technology & service providers to deliver a balanced perspective. His passion is aligning the right technologies with the right scenarios, and helping organizations get the full benefits of technology and services offerings along the path to a more modern, digital business environment. He helps both end-user organizations and service providers to develop their strategy for leveraging cloud and AI services to ensure the full and successful realization of business benefits.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Anderson spent six years at Microsoft working in Microsoft's data center and cloud services business. His responsibilities included marketing strategy and execution, market intelligence, sales strategy, partnering, and business performance analysis. He has a long history of working with data center technologies and IT strategies with a focus on using technology as a business enabler.

Before working at Microsoft, he spent 12 years at Novell in a variety of roles, including engineering, product management, corporate strategy and product marketing. During this time, he was deeply involved in infrastructure, security, IT operations management and collaboration.

Professional background

3M Health Information Systems, Software Engineer, 4 years

Microsoft, Director of Marketing, 6 years

Novell, VP, Product Marketing, 12 years

Areas of coverage
  • Craft World-Class Product Strategies

  • Improve Product Marketing Execution

  • Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services

  • Executive Leadership: Driving Sustainability

  • Excel at Product Creation and Delivery

Education

M.B.A., University of Florida

B.S., Computer Science, University of Utah

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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cloud market size, forecast and market share

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cloud and IT sustainability

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cloud market trends, future of cloud, cloud AI

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Cloud IT services, consulting, implementation and managed services

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Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, industry cloud