Brian Partridge is head of research for both the 451 Research technology research and Kagan media research groups within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Brian has responsibility for leading the analyst team, research process and syndicated research products. This includes driving the overall research agenda and ensuring that S&P Global Market Intelligence delivers the data and insights to help clients make better decisions regarding emerging technologies and innovation. Before arriving at S&P Global Market Intelligence via acquisition, Brian was VP of research at 451 Research and head of research at Yankee Group. At 451 Research, he founded the IoT research practice. Prior to his research career, which began in 2005, Brian served in marketing leadership roles at leading networking vendors, including 3Com and Cabletron Systems. As a researcher, Brian actively contributes to the IoT, 5G, enterprise wireless and edge computing research agendas and has subject matter expertise in telecom systems and strategy, enterprise mobility and enterprise networking domains. Brian holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA degree from Plymouth State University.
The deal should allow the acquirer to accelerate its open network API product roadmap, helping it bridge the gap between network operators and developers. Exposing network capabilities via open APIs could help network operators monetize their 5G infrastructure investments.
The company has announced a strategic partnership with leading telecom operators to establish a new venture focused on network application programming interfaces. The new entity aims to aggregate and harmonize network APIs globally, fostering innovation and new monetization avenues within the industry.
The company's share price has increased by almost 200% in the last 12 months on the expectation that AI will return it to growth and accelerate its importance as a foundational component. Dell's challenge now is to meet demand with development and innovation across hardware and software stacks.
For the past four years, the company led pioneering work in the 5G public multi-access edge computing segment, but sluggish demand has driven a pivot in strategy. Verizon now sees the most near-term opportunity as a critical enabler of business outcomes via private solutions.
Prior to Mobile World Congress 2024, the companies announced that they were enhancing their existing partnership, while clarifying their core competencies and ecosystem focus. As part of the agreement, Nokia plans to adopt Dell as the preferred infrastructure partner for its AirFrame server customers.
Telecom operators should "cloudify" their network, IT and customer experience operations to thrive in the long term. The need for such radical change is understood, yet it remains difficult to achieve in practice for the telecom industry, which is frustrating for both operators and vendors.
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