Meet our Analysts

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 deve ... read more

Rhonda Ascierto is Research Director for the Datacenters & Critical Infrastructure Channel at 451 Research. She has spent more than 15 years at the crossroads of IT and business as an analyst, speaker, adviser and editor covering the technology and co ... read more

Matt Aslett is a Research Director for the Data Platforms and Analytics Channel at 451 Research. Matt has overall responsibility for the data platforms and analytics research coverage, which includes operational and analytic databases, Hadoop, grid/cache, ... read more

Jean Atelsek is an analyst for 451 Research’s Digital Economics Unit, focusing on cloud pricing in the US and Europe.

Prior to joining 451 Research she was an editor at Ovum, spiffing up reports, forecasts and data tools covering telecoms a ... read more

Henry Baltazar is a Research Director for the Storage Channel at 451 Research. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Fo ... read more

Garrett Bekker is a Principal Analyst in the Information Security Practice at 451 Research. He brings a unique and diverse background, having viewed enterprise security from a variety of perspectives over the past 16 years. Garrett spent over 10 years as ... read more

Daniel Bizo is a Senior Analyst for Datacenters and Critical Infrastructure Channel at 451 Research. His research focuses on advanced datacenter design, build and operations, such as prefabricated modular datacenters, highly efficient cooling and integrat ... read more

Carl Brooks is an Analyst for 451 Research's Service Providers Channel, covering cloud computing and the next generation of IT infrastructure. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTarget. Carl h ... read more

Kevin Burden is VP of Mobility Research and Data Strategy at 451 Research. He leads the company's market and quantitative analysis across all mobile technology segments. Kevin has more than 20 years of experience analyzing markets for mobile and wireless ... read more

Raúl Castañón-Martínez is a senior analyst based in Boston focusing on business communications and collaboration technologies such as enterprise messaging, voice, bots, speech recognition and unified communications. Before 451 Research, he was a produ ... read more

Scott Crawford is Research Director for the Information Security Channel at 451 Research, where he leads coverage of emerging trends, innovation and disruption in the information security market.

Well known as an industry analyst covering info ... read more

James Curtis is a Senior Analyst for the Data Platforms and Analytics Channel at 451 Research. He has had experience covering the BI reporting and analytics sector and currently covers Hadoop, NoSQL and related analytic and operational database technologi ... read more

Brenon Daly oversees the financial analysis of 451 Research's Market Insight and KnowledgeBase products, having covered more than a quarter-trillion dollars' worth of deal flow for both national publications and research firms.

Brenon began hi ... read more

As an Associate 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 ... read more

Keith Dawson is a principal analyst in 451 Research's Customer Experience & Commerce practice, primarily covering marketing technology. Keith has been covering the intersection of communications and enterprise software for 25 years, mainly looking at ... read more

Sayon Deb is an Associate Research Director on the VoCUL Customer Insights team.

He is responsible for leading proprietary and custom research projects, including survey development, quantitative research methodologies, data analysis and interp ... read more

Scott Denne is a Senior Analyst with 451 Research, where he helps direct the firm's coverage of technology mergers and acquisitions. He also contributes to 451 Research's Customer Experience & Commerce Channel with coverage of the advertising technolo ... read more

Jim Duffy is Senior Analyst for the Networking Channel at 451 Research. He covers enterprise network infrastructure and associated software, and network performance management. Jim has been covering technology for over 30 years, including 25 at Network Wo ... read more

Liam Eagle is a Research Manager, VotE Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services. His research examines web and application hosting, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure. His research focuses in part on the adaptation of traditional hosting technologies and ... read more

William Fellows is a cofounder of The 451 Group. As VP of Research, he is responsible for the Cloud Transformation Channel at 451 Research. This Channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for 451 Research around cloud computing, in much the same ... read more

Jeffrey Fidacaro is a Senior Analyst in the Datacenters and Critical Infrastructure Channel at 451 Research. Jeff has over 16 years of equity research experience covering technology companies as an analyst for both investment banks (sell side) and investm ... read more

Mark Fontecchio is a M&A Research Manager. He helps direct the firm's coverage of technology mergers and acquisitions and its M&A KnowledgeBase.

Previously he spent eight years at TechTarget, where he wrote and directed coverage on dat ... read more

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 pub ... read more

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 ... read more

Amy Hedrick is a Research Associate for 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) data team. She has interviewed hundreds of technology professionals for the VotE offering, across various sectors including the Internet of Things, converged infrastruct ... read more