Internet of Things

As Research Vice President of 451 Research's Internet of Things practice, Christian Renaud covers the ongoing virtualization and digitization of the physical world around us. For 25 years prior to joining 451 Research, Christian built nationwide networks at large and small enterprises, worked with Fortune 50 companies in the systems integrator channel, built products at Cisco Systems and ran the company's New Markets and Technologies team.

As an Analyst in 451 Research’s Information Security Channel, Patrick Daly covers emerging technologies in Internet of Things (IoT) security. His research focuses on different industrial disciplines of IoT security, including the protection of critical infrastructure, transportation and medical devices. In addition, Patrick’s coverage spans technological domains, including security for IoT devices, applications, platforms and networks.

Rich Karpinski is Research Director for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things survey and advisory offering. In that capacity, Rich tracks, analyzes and anticipates the pace and direction of IoT adoption, overseeing 451’s quarterly survey of IoT adopters.

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).

Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has more than 27 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect and consultant through key technology trends. Ian has 20 years of experience at IBM in cross-industry application development. This included automotive, global sporting events, retail and telecoms.

John Spooner is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has more than 20 years of experience chronicling key technology trends, market trends and customer adoption trends as an analyst and a journalist. John has more than 10 years of experience authoring research reports, developing research portfolios, and consulting with vendors around devices, datacenters and Internet of Things.

Vice President Brian Partridge leads 451 Research's mobility coverage, including the Internet of Things, Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Telecom Channels. In this role Partridge has overall responsibility for the mobility team's syndicated and custom research services. As a researcher he contributes to machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) research along with a number of additional topics in the telecom and enterprise mobility domains.