Craig Stanley

Group Product Line Marketing Manager / Cloud Economics

Craig Stanley is a Group Product Line Marketing Manager in the Cloud Economics group. He specializes in economic cost analysis and the art of decision making. Craig has been in the IT industry for over 35 years, including 9 years as a Gartner VP and Research Director and 8 years at VMware. As a Gartner analyst, he specialized in datacenter benchmarking, trends and analysis and authored several research notes. At VMware, Craig has been responsible for developing methodologies that help our customers understand how to effectively connect and align their IT initiatives to their desired business objectives. As a Cloud Economist, he drives conversations around the economic value and benefits of VMware’s Cloud offerings. Craig holds a BS degree from the University of South Alabama and an MBA from The Citadel in addition to a US Patent for a mathematical benchmarking methodology. He is based in the US.