Gartner Expert

Tony Harvey

VP Analyst

Tony Harvey is a Vice President, Analyst at Gartner. Tony assists clients with evaluation, planning and delivering business value from technology investments. He provides strategic advice on directions for datacenters and infrastructure, AI and edge computing as well as advising on RFPs, and vendor selection. He also provides vendors with advice on product requirements, product positioning, market messaging and competitive analysis.

My research areas include the impact of AI on datacenters and energy production, the impact of the Broadcom acquisition of VMWare, alternative hypervisors and operating systems, and emerging technologies impacting server architectures, including processor architectures, memory technologies and interconnects.

Previous experience

Before joining Gartner, Mr. Harvey held product management roles at Lenovo, Cisco and HPE on blades and hyperconverged systems.

Professional background

Cisco Systems, Product Management, 7 years

HPE, Various, 18 years

Lenovo, Product Management, 2 years

Areas of coverage

  • I&O Operations Management

  • I&O Platforms

  • CIO Management of Technology

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Helping IT Teams with Cloud, hybrid environments, hyperconverged, distributed and edge computing strategies

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Advising on Windows Server upgrade and migration strategies, including hybrid and cloud migrations

03

Broadcom VMware Issues and alternative hypervisors

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The interaction between the Security & I&O teams, security risks of firmware, hardware and supply chain

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Provide insight on the use of On-Premises Public Clouds such as Azure Stack Hub and AWS Outposts and Hyperconvereged systems