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.
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.
3M Health Information Systems, Software Engineer, 4 years
Microsoft, Director of Marketing, 6 years
Novell, VP, Product Marketing, 12 years
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
M.B.A., University of Florida
B.S., Computer Science, University of Utah
cloud market size, forecast and market share
cloud and IT sustainability
cloud market trends, future of cloud, cloud AI
Cloud IT services, consulting, implementation and managed services
Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, industry cloud