Gartner Expert

Jeff Vogel

VP Analyst

Jeff Vogel covers Storage - on-premise, hybrid, platform-native, consumption-based models, public cloud and edge workloads. Mr. Vogel's experience spans 4 decades of Enterprise IT operations, business model, technology, product, M&A and start-up experience that spans 3 generations of compute and storage. Although he dedicates most of his time to the specific needs of I&O leaders, he also provides guidance and advice to technology executives concerning emerging and innovative technologies, disruptive business models and market strategies. Cloud-native hybrid and multicloud operations experience provides the insights needed to assist both I&O leaders and technology companies to assess and deploy cloud-native and platform-native consumption-based storage as a service strategies that enable modern IT operations and all-digital economy infrastructure plans. Other areas of expertise include storage proposal reviews, cyber security storage strategies and autonomous storage.

Previous experience

Prior to this, Mr. Vogel held executive roles in storage area networking (SAN), disk drive peripherals and data center operations.

Professional background

Calpont / InfiniDB, President and CEO, 7 years

ClearDB, President and CEO, 3 years

McDATA, SVP, Marketing, Strategy, Solutions, Alliances, 8 years

Areas of coverage
  • I&O Organizational Strategy

  • I&O Operations Management

  • I&O Platforms

Education

Electrical Engineering and Electronics, DeVry Institute

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Use of storage, cloud, technologies and architecture to address mission-critical priorities.

02

Developing and Operationalizing hybrid IT Cloud platforms

03

Sourcing, SLA and pricing strategies to address cost optimization, productivity and efficiency objectives.

04

Use of vendor storage technologies, tools, AIOps, automation and business model to address data modernization and IT operations

05

Hybrid Cloud IT Operations vs. Public Cloud infrastructure for mission critical database applications.