Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

Covering the evolution of IT infrastructure to adapt to rapidly changing workloads born from emerging DevOps environments; guiding clients on how this environment will operate and how they can win within it.

Modern IT infrastructure must be designed and equipped to rapidly adapt to changing workloads as enterprises adopt DevOps tools, culture and processes. IT leaders increasingly understand that if they structure IT architecture and services similarly to successful commerce service providers (via building blocks/micro-services) they can rapidly adapt to unforeseen change, need or risk. The Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channel is organized to foster this perspective and provide guidance to clients on how this new environment will operate and how they can win within it. Broader thinking is required across tangential technologies and markets that will help leaders understand the ways they interoperate and/or converge to support new IT goals. The Channel analyzes the future of IT in the context of larger market transitions under way, among them: the acceleration of automation; hybrid cloud computing; adaptive networking; redefined/optimized storage; functions as a service, containers and serverless; the coalescence of security, development and IT operations into ‘DevSecOps’; increasingly invisible infrastructure; and intelligent edge architectures.

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Research Director, Applied Infrastructure & DevOps

Brian Partridge

Brian Partridge is a Research Director for the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native Technologies research channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In these roles, Brian has overall responsibility for channel research deliverables and team management. As a researcher he actively contributes to the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and edge computing research agendas and has subject matter expertise in telecom systems and strategy, mobility and enterprise networking domains.

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Research Director, Storage

Henry Baltazar

Henry Baltazar is a Research Director for the storage practice at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Forrester clients on datacenter infrastructure technologies.

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Principal Research Analyst, 4Sight

John Abbott

John Abbott covers systems, storage and software infrastructure topics for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Over a career that spans more than 30 years, he has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as Unix, supercomputing, system architecture, software development and storage.

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Senior Research Analyst, Applied Infrastructure & DevOps

Mike Fratto

Mike Fratto is a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers enterprise networking, including campus and datacenter networking, SDN, SD-WAN, SD-Branch, cloud networking, container networking, networking as a service, network performance monitoring, and network automation and orchestration.

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Principal Research Analyst

Eric Hanselman

Eric Hanselman is the Principal Research Analyst at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of security, networks, application and infrastructure transformation and semiconductors.

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Senior Research Analyst, Applied Infrastructure & DevOps

Carl Lehmann

Carl Lehmann is a Senior Research Analyst in the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native research channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads 451 Research's coverage of process automation and integration in hybrid IT and cloud-native architectures, as well as how hybrid IT affects business strategy and operations.

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Research Director, Head of Voice of the Enterprise & Voice of the Service Provider

Liam Eagle

Liam Eagle is a Research Director and Head of Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) and Voice of the Service Provider practices at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. As head of VotE, he leads the production of 451's enterprise survey research, and with Voice of the Service Provider, he leads surveys on IT decision-making within service provider organizations.

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Senior Research Analyst, Cloud Native and DevOps

Jay Lyman

Jay Lyman is a Senior Research Analyst with the Cloud Native and Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. 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.

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Senior Research Analyst, Infrastructure

Christian Perry

Christian Perry is a Senior Research Analyst covering IT infrastructure at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, Christian covers emerging and disruptive infrastructure technologies, including hyperconverged infrastructure and composable infrastructure.

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Associate Research Analyst

Liam Rogers

As an Associate Research Analyst in the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, Liam Rogers covers technology and business-model innovation spanning cloud native and DevOps, including coverage of container management, Kubernetes storage and data management and CI/CD.

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Senior Research Associate

Raymond Huo

Raymond Huo is a Senior Research Associate who sits on both the Internet of Things (IoT) and Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers the adoption of 5G as it pertains to connected devices, telecom, enterprise mobility and enterprise networking.

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Head of Research, 451 Research

Simon Robinson

As Head of Research for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, Simon Robinson provides leadership, direction and overall management of the analyst team, research process and syndicated research products. This includes driving the overall research agenda and ensuring that 451 Research continues to deliver the data and insight that help clients make better decisions around emerging technologies and innovation.

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Research Director, Market and Competitive Intelligence

Greg Zwakman

As Research Director of Market and Competitive Intelligence at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market 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 IoT; data, AI and analytics; information security; cloud computing; datacenters; and hosting/service providers.

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