Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

Vice President Brian Partridge leads the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channel at 451 Research. In this role, Brian has overall responsibility for the team's syndicated and custom research deliverables. As a researcher he actively contributes to the Internet of Things (IoT) research agenda and has subject matter expertise in connected device, telecom, enterprise mobility and enterprise networking domains.

Nick Patience leads 451 Research's coverage in two key areas: digital transformation and artificial intelligence/machine learning. Nick is a cofounder of 451 Research and Research Vice President, Software. He oversees the company's coverage of the software industry spanning four research channels: Customer Experience and Commerce, Workforce Productivity and Compliance, Data, AI & Analytics, and Development, DevOps and ITOps.

John Abbott covers systems, storage and software infrastructure topics for 451 Research, and over a career that spans more than 25 years has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as Unix, supercomputing, system architecture, software development and storage.

As Vice President, of Market and Competitive Intelligence, Greg oversees the development and maintenance of the company's Market Monitor product line. The Market Monitor provides market sizing, share and growth forecasts for emerging enterprise technology markets including cloud computing, cloud enabling technologies, big data, OpenStack and hosting/service providers.

Mike Fratto is a senior analyst on 451 Research’s Applied Infrastructure and DevOps team covering enterprise networking. He has extensive experience reviewing and writing about enterprise remote access, security and network infrastructure products, as well as consulting with enterprise IT, equipment and software vendors, and service providers.

Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 Research disciplines. The convergence of forces across the technology landscape is creating tectonic shifts in the industry, including SDN/NFV, hyperconvergence and the Internet of Things (IoT). Eric helps 451 Research's clients navigate these turbulent waters and determine their impacts and how they can best capitalize on them.

Simon Robinson is responsible for managing the 451 Research analyst team, shaping the overall research agenda and driving the firm’s short-form and long-form research reports. Simon’s own coverage focuses on infrastructure topics, including storage, compute, converged and software-defined infrastructure.

Melanie Posey is the Research Vice President and General Manager for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation offering. She focuses on tracking, analyzing and anticipating the pace and nature of enterprise cloud adoption.

Nancy Gohring covers application and infrastructure performance for 451 Research, including IT monitoring, application performance management and log management. Prior to joining 451 Research, Nancy was Editor in Chief of the enterprise IT publications at Fierce Markets. She launched the DevOps publication, setting the editorial direction for the new coverage area, and oversaw seven publications aimed at senior enterprise IT executives.

Carl Lehmann is a Principal Analyst in the Development, DevOps & IT Ops Channel. He leads 451 Research's coverage of integration and process management technologies in hybrid cloud architecture, as well as how hybrid IT affects business strategy and operations. The markets covered in his research include enterprise architecture management (EAM) tools, hybrid cloud integration technology (including iPaaS and API management) and business process management (BPM) software.

Jay Lyman is a Principal Analyst in the Development, DevOps & IT Ops Channel. He covers infrastructure software, primarily private cloud platforms, cloud management and enterprise use cases that center on orchestration, the confluence of software development and IT operations known as DevOps, Docker and containers.

Steven Hill is a Senior Analyst of Storage technologies. He covers the latest generation of hyperconverged systems, cloud-based storage and business continuity/disaster recovery solutions for enterprise customers. Prior to joining 451 Research, Steven spent two years evaluating datacenter hardware and software products and vendors as the Senior Analyst, Data Center Solutions for Current Analysis, with a specific focus on converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud technologies.

Christian Perry is a Research Manager covering IT infrastructure at 451 Research. In this role, Christian manages the Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) products – built on 451 Research's proprietary global network of senior IT decision-makers – covering datacenter, server and converged infrastructure topics. With more than 20 years of experience tracking and analyzing the IT datacenter market.

As Research Vice President, Al is responsible for setting the research agenda for the Infrastructure practices, spanning servers, storage, networking and software-defined infrastructure. He regularly advises the vendor and service provider C-suite, investment bankers and enterprise CIOs on the business problems technology attempts to solve and the companies that build, use and invest in these technologies. Al also contemplates the evolving business models leveraging OpenStack.

Tim Stammers is a Senior Analyst at 451 Research, where he covers flash- and disk-based primary storage. Before joining 451 Research in 2013, Tim was Senior Storage Analyst at Ovum. He has over 20 years of experience as an IT industry analyst and journalist, and has also worked as a gas turbine development engineer at Rolls-Royce, and a mainframe systems engineer at the London Electricity Board.

As an Associate Analyst in 451 Research’s Storage Channel, Liam Rogers covers technology and business-model innovation across the enterprise storage landscape – spanning primary storage systems and software, backup and recovery, archiving, cloud storage services, cloud-enabling storage technologies and storage management. This includes markets such as data management, hyperconverged infrastructure and software-defined storage.