Author: Bob Gill

Bob Gill is a vice president and agenda manager in Gartner's Infrastructure Strategies group. Gill is a leading authority in data centre planning, aligning business and IT strategy, cloud computing, edge computing architectures, managed DNS, content distribution, and colocation. He also manages the Research Agenda for Infrastructure Delivery, which centres on the evolution from on-premises, data-centre-based IT, to hybrid IT including colocation and cloud computing. Gill's experience extends over 38 years in the business and technology arena, including data network design, networked operating systems, internet services, network computing and data centre services.

The transformation of legacy data centres into strategic assets

Gartner analyst David Cappuccio wrote that the Data Center is Dead. But is it really?Can an older Data Centre become a strategic asset rather than a liability?

Reduce data centre costs and get ready for cloud

“Do more! But Spend less! Over the past several months we have described many client interactions where financial pressures brought on by a stalled economy are butting up against enterprise needs to modernize and offer new services. (see figure 1) While many look to the cloud to modernize AND cut costs, the view on the […]