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

Matt Aslett is a Research Vice President with responsibility for 451 Research’s Data, AI and Analytics Channel – including operational and analytic databases, Hadoop, grid/cache, stream processing, data integration, data governance, and data managemen ... read more

Jean is an analyst working across 451 Research's Cloud Transformation team and Digital Economics Unit. In addition to producing the quarterly Cloud Price Index deliverables, Jean covers vendors and cloud providers that offer technology or services to mana ... read more

Henry Baltazar is a Research Vice President 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 advis ... read more

Paige is a Senior Analyst for the Data, AI and Analytics channel at 451 Research, covering data management, including data integration, data governance, data quality and master data management. She has experience covering a broad range of information ... 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 Principal Analyst for Datacenter Services & Infrastructure Channel at 451 Research. His research focuses on advanced datacenter design, build and operations, such as prefabricated modular datacenters, highly efficient cooling and inte ... read more

Carl Brooks is an Analyst for 451 Research's Cloud Transformation Channel, covering service providers, cloud platforms and supply chain/channel for cloud. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTa ... read more

As a Senior Research Associate in the Customer Experience & Commerce Channel at 451 Research, Haley Brown contributes coverage to a range of customer experience software markets including mar-tech, sales, digital commerce and customer service from bot ... 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 Vice President for the Information Security Channel at 451 Research, where he leads coverage of emerging trends, innovation and disruption in the information security market. Scott is also a member of 451 Research’s Center of ... read more

James Curtis is a Senior Analyst for the Data, AI & 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 technologies. ... 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 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 ... 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

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

Liam Eagle is a Research Vice President, Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services. He is responsible for the Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services study, and the Voice of the Service Provider study. His research examines web and applicat ... 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

Mark Fontecchio is an analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He covers horizontal IoT technology, as well as focusing on the commercial transportation vertical. Previously, he was the M&A Research Manager at 451 Research, where h ... read more

Conner Forrest is a Senior Analyst with the Workforce Productivity and Compliance team at 451 Research. His areas of focus are content management, HR tech and corporate performance management. Before joining 451 Research, Conner worked as a se ... read more

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 w ... 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

Nicole Henderson is an Analyst on the Managed Services & Hosting team at 451 Research. Her research examines managed services for public cloud, alternative public clouds and other forms of hosted infrastructure. Prior to 451 Research, Nico ... read more