Gartner Expert

Martin Caren

Director Analyst

Martin Caren is a Director Analyst in the monitoring and observability team within the infrastructure and operations (I&O) practice of Gartner for IT leaders research. Martin is an expert in IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM), Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), Event Intelligence Solutions for AIOps, observability, logging, and telemetry pipelines. Martin has experience and expertise across technology, people and process. Martin is a firm believer that only by looking wholistically at people, process and technology can the dial on observability maturity be moved in the right direction.

Previous experience

Previously I worked for a leading Nordic bank where I was a knowledge leader. My main focus was to drive the adoption and improvement of monitoring and observability solutions within the bank and coaching people and teams in the use of monitoring and observability products. I was also responsible for driving the roadmap for observability which involved - simplifying, empowering and automating the observability stack to give teams greater insight into applications and services performance and leveraging the data to allow teams to proactively manage service delivery. Finally, I was also responsible for developing, driving and evangelizing the observability vision, strategy and roadmap across people, process and technology areas.

Professional background

Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd, ITSM Technical Delivery Lead, 5 years

Indra Systems, BMC PATROL Onsite Lead, 1 years

Nordea Bank, Chief IT Infrastructure Specialist, 6 years

Areas of coverage
  • Service and Support Talent and Operations

  • Service and Support Customer Experience and Analytics

  • IT Operations and Cloud Management for Technical Professionals

  • Adopt Modern Architectures and Technologies

Education

Loughborough University, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Geography, 1992 - 1996, Grade: 2.1

Warrington Collegiate, Higher National Certificate Computing, 1997 - 1999, Grade: Pass

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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IT monitoring and observability strategy and best practice

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Consolidating observability tools and raising the bar in observability maturity

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End to end improvements in observability

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Analytics and machine learning for IT operations and GenAI in observability

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Telemetry pipelines