Gartner Expert

Jeffrey Hewitt

VP Analyst

Jeffrey Hewitt is a Research Vice President at Gartner, where he is a part of the Infrastructure and Operations team in the Gartner for IT Leaders organization. As a part of that team, Mr. Hewitt's primary areas of coverage include hyperconvergence, distributed/tethered cloud, edge computing, structured data and enterprise information archiving, business continuity management/business impact analysis, DR and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Mr. Hewitt leads the formulation of the Top Trends Impacting I&O, and identifies the implications of those trends on skill requirements. He also assists client with integrated systems and server purchasing negotiations.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Hewitt was a Director of Product Marketing for Unisys.

Professional background

Auspex Systems, Product Line Manager, 1 years

Everex Systems, Marketing and Sales Manager, 4 years

Unisys, Director of Product Marketing, 4 years

Areas of coverage
  • I&O Organizational Strategy

  • Data Center Infrastructure

  • Cloud and Edge Infrastructure

Education

M.B.A., University of Phoenix

B.A., magna cum laude, Advertising and Mass Communications, University of South Florida

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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How to evaluate and when to select hyperconvergence as an infrastructure choice

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How to align with and optimally leverage the top trends impacting infrastructure and operations

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How to effectively negotiate the best integrated system and server infrastructure prices

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How to determine best approaches for structured and unstructured data archiving

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How to understand and develop a business impact analysis