Jeffrey Hewitt is a Research Vice President at Gartner, where he is a part of the Infrastructure and Operations team in the Gartner for IT Leaders organization. Jeffrey and other Gartner analysts will provide further analysis on these topics at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summits 2026, taking place March 9-11 in Orlando, April 28-29 in São Paulo, May 11-13 in London, May 19-21 in Tokyo, June 16-17 in Sydney and September 21-22 in Mumbai. Follow news and updates from the conferences on X and LinkedIn using #GartnerDA.