Research Vice President, AI Infrastructure

Overview

IDC
Research Vice President, AI Infrastructure
US
Job :
Type: Regular (Full Time)
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research

IDC is seeking a Research Vice President (RVP) covering AI and Enterprise Workloads Infrastructure. Reporting to the GVP/GM for the Enterprise Infrastructure global research domain, the RVP will be a key face of IDC’s market intelligence and advisory services for enterprise infrastructure and cloud services more broadly. We are looking for candidates with the experience and skills needed to help IDC’s clients bring innovative infrastructure products and services to market.

The RVP will have broad and in-depth knowledge of the IT technology and infrastructure industry with a specific focus on AI and Enterprise Systems and Stacks. Systems placed in enterprise datacenters, edge locations, colocation facilities, and hosting environments with specific focus on those used for AI workloads and use cases (including, model training, optimizing, fine-tuning and inferencing). This includes compute, storage, converged, hyperconverged and composable infrastructure stacks, AI Factories, and private and public cloud stacks for AI.

Platforms and Technologies. In-depth knowledge of computing, storage and networking elements of the infrastructure stack, including AI-specific elements such as accelerators (e.g., GPUs and DPUs), networking standards and protocols (e.g., Infiniband, Ethernet and Fibre Channel) and storage stacks (e.g., distributed/parallel file systems). Knowledge of higher-level software constructs such as operating systems, virtualization and containerization and their usage in an AI or enterprise workloads stack is a plus.

Ability to discern the differences between the various approaches at the silicon, platform, and systems architecture level is a plus. Vendor landscape. Knowledge of established and emerging compute, storage, and networking infrastructure vendors and service providers, their products and services, routes to market, ecosystems and partnerships, their strengths and weaknesses, and their competitive dynamics and focus areas. Use cases and workloads.

Enterprise workloads such as structured and unstructured data management (databases), web and business applications, collaborative applications, performance intensive applications used in modeling and simulation, AI/ML, analytics, technical and engineering computing environments, to name a few.

What You’ll Do

IDC analysts are one of the most respected in the industry. A successful candidate will become an important member within a team of industry experts and will be looked upon as a frequent contributor to IDC’s enterprise and cloud IT infrastructure services research. A suitable candidate IDC RVP will be expected to: work with IDC colleagues to ensure the AI and Enterprise infrastructure coverage is well rounded in terms of quantitative and qualitative, IT supplier and end user, decision maker and investor, and vertical industry specific aspects.

Ensure that there is no ambiguity in terms of how IDC views AI and enterprise workloads infrastructure in the broader context of the enterprise IT industry. Develop high-quality quantitative and qualitative research on market trends and industry outlook, delivered via IDC’s syndicated research services. This includes developing taxonomies, market share and forecast reports, vendor reports, technology assessments, end user reports and market perspectives.

Propagate IDC point of view to the broader industry with the goal of continuing IDC as a market research leader in AI and enterprise workloads infrastructure. This includes developing and delivering presentations on current and future industry trends, impact on vendors, and guiding IDC clients on the current and future state of the market. It also includes speaking at industry conferences, vendor events.

Develop high-impact custom projects delivered via written reports and white papers, interactive engagements, speaking engagements and custom advisory services. Groom and mentor junior analysts to grow IDC’s research on Enterprise IT infrastructure. The candidate will be asked to take on people management…