Philip Dawson is a Vice President in Gartner Research. Mr. Dawson specializes in digital infrastructure strategy built on intelligent infrastructure and hyperconvergence as a part of integrated systems and infrastructure modernization, cloud, ERP, and server platforms.
He is a leading authority on application modernization driving virtualization, portfolio consolidation, ERP migration and rationalization processes, and enabling cloud delivery. He has been at Gartner for 22 years and has more than 35 years of experience in the IT industry.
Prior to joining Gartner through the Meta Group acquisition, Mr. Dawson was a Competitive Market Research Manager with Sequent Computer Systems, Europe. In this role, he worked in product marketing, helping develop UNIX/NT integration strategies and introduce Intel IA-32/IA-64 NUMA platforms. Before this, he worked at Santa Cruz Operation as the Product Marketing Manager for all the layered products.
Meta Group
Vice President
Sequent Computer Systems
Competitive Market Research Manager
Santa Cruz Operation
Product Marketing Manager
I&O Organizational Strategy
Data Center Infrastructure
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure
B.A., With Honors, Computing in Business, Huddersfield Polytechnic
Diploma, Computer Studies
1Intelligent platforms for cloud and on premise delivery.
2Application modernization driving I&O
3SLA Software Services not TCO Hardware Silos
4Rationalizing and Consolidation of repeatable services
5Integrated Systems , Hype convergence