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 Datacenter Technologies and Eco-Efficient IT 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 ... 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

Kathryn Ball is a Senior Research Associate in 451 Research's Information Security Channel. Her research focuses primarily on threat intelligence platforms and intersecting technologies that make growing influxes of threat data actionable. Kathryn has als ... 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 Datacenter Technologies Channel at 451 Research. His research focuses on advanced datacenter design, build and operations, such as prefabricated modular datacenters, highly efficient cooling and integrated facilities an ... read more

Katie Broderick is a Research Vice President at 451 Research. She has collaborated on some of the industry's leading quantitative research on colocation, cloud computing and datacenter infrastructure management. Katie currently manages the 451 Alliance (a ... 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

Jennifer P. Clark is Vice President, Network Research for 451 Research. She heads the Network research practice, providing actionable insight into network technology and infrastructure, examining the challenges facing both enterprises and network operator ... 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

Dan Cummins is a Senior Analyst for the Information Security Channel at 451 Research.  He covers automation and orchestration, network-based anti-malware, and micro-segmentation and the dynamic field of ‘post-AV’ anti-malware and threat preventio ... 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 a Senior Research Associate 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 protec ... 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 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 interpretation, ... read more

Scott Denne is an 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 technology ind ... read more

Sean Doherty is an Analyst for the Workforce Productivity & Compliance Channel at 451 Research, directing its business and technology coverage of information governance, compliance and electronic discovery, and software and services to combat fraud (a ... read more

Andrew Donoghue is the European Research Manager at 451 Research. His main focus areas are datacenter cooling, including direct liquid cooling, renewable energy and on-site energy generation, and datacenter management. He has also led the firm's involveme ... 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

Rory Duncan is the Research Director for 451 Research's Managed Services & Hosting channel. His research focuses on the global managed services and hosting market, where he tracks IT managed service providers, web and applications hosting firms and co ... read more