Brian Adler is the senior director of cloud market strategy at Flexera. He is responsible for providing thought leadership to customers, prospects, and the IT community at large regarding the technical aspects of organizational cloud journeys, including strategy, adoption, migration, and cost optimization. Prior to Flexera, he was a cloud infrastructure and operations analyst at Gartner, providing guidance and insight to enterprise clients during all phases of cloud adoption. Brian also spent more than eight years at RightScale (acquired by Flexera in 2018) as the director of enterprise architecture, assisting clients with the adoption and integration of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform.