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Julia Palmer
VP Analyst
Julia Palmer, a Research VP at Gartner, is recognized for her extensive knowledge and expertise in emerging infrastructure technologies and strategies. With a customer-centric approach, Ms. Palmer is dedicated to providing strategic advice to CIOs and IT leaders, empowering them to enhance infrastructure agility and drive innovation within their organizations. She specializes in addressing existing challenges and preparing for upcoming enterprise workloads across various environments, including core data centers, hybrid cloud, and edge.
Ms. Palmer's focus extends to a wide range of emerging technologies that are reshaping the IT landscape. These include distributed hybrid infrastructure, which combines the benefits of on-premises and cloud solutions, as well as distributed and sovereign cloud, hyperconverged infrastructures, virtualization platforms, software-defined storage, and hybrid and public cloud storage platforms. She also delves into sovereign AI infrastructure, distributed file systems and object storage, next-generation solid-state storage technology, container-native storage and composable infrastructure.
With over 25 years of combined IT end-user experience, Ms. Palmer possesses a wealth of knowledge in multiple areas of information technology. Her expertise spans storage infrastructure solutions and design, encompassing SAN, NAS, and object storage. She is well-versed in software-defined storage, web-scale data centers, server hardware, flash technologies, performance engineering and validation, R&D research, application performance analysis, virtualization, converged infrastructure, hyperconverged integrated systems, and solutions delivery for information technology offerings and cloud computing.
Ms. Palmer's deep understanding of the IT landscape, coupled with her extensive experience, positions her as a trusted advisor to organizations seeking to navigate the complexities of modern infrastructure technologies.
Previous experience
Before joining Gartner, Ms. Palmer managed GoDaddy's Web-Scale Performance Engineering team with a broad focus on infrastructure performance engineering across all of the GoDaddy cloud service platforms. She guided a team of storage, systems and performance engineers, specializing in storage and server rightsizing analysis, performance optimization and cost reduction. Additionally, her team focused on researching, validating and analyzing GoDaddy hardware needs based on platform and application loads and patterns. Her role included leading architecture and test of various server and storage solutions for different needs of enterprise and cloud customers' applications.
Ms. Palmer provided a strong engineering leadership, from solution architecture definition to global deployments at scale. She engaged and maintained key technology partnerships with internal product teams and external suppliers to productize comprehensive solutions. She also provided direction to commodity suppliers, ODMs and CMs on ways to improve component costs and peripheral designs.
Ms. Palmer delivered many oral and written proposals for technical and executive audiences. She authored comprehensive architectural drawings and white papers of solution designs. She also authored internal white papers describing the storage server SKU configuration process and design methodology employed by her team, providing customer education and raw data supporting their decisions.
Professional background
GoDaddy, Hardware Optimization and Performance Engineering Manager, 8 years
Intel Israel, Automation Systems Engineer, 5 years
Intel, U.S., Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer, 5 years
Areas of coverage
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I&O Platforms
Education
Master of Computer Science, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio electronics
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and distributed Hybrid Cloud infrastructure modernization
Storage and hyperconverged vendors' selection against customer requirements on-premises, in the public cloud and at the edge
Hybrid cloud storage and hyperconverged strategies, trends and technologies
Benefits and pitfalls of emerging storage technologies and hyperconverged offerings
Strategic storage services roadmap and how to efficiently address storage growth and lower TCO