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). Eric helps 451 Research's clients navigate these turbulent waters and determine their impacts and how they can best capitalize on them. Eric is also a member of 451 Research’s Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.
Eric holds a patent in image compression systems. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and he is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.
He majored in chemistry at Reed College.
Third-party scripts executed in a web browser have become vehicles for credit card skimming and other types of attacks. Akamai is countering with Page Integrity Manager, one of a few security products on the market combating malicious script activity.
The company unveiled its latest OpenShift 4.4 at Red Hat Virtual Summit, touting the ability to run VMs and containers on Kubernetes, a growing number of Kubernetes Operators, and other improvements.
The company's Breach Defense product aims to test network security defenses through targeted attacks in areas that it believes are the most prone to vulnerabilities. The process can be automated to ensure that enterprises are aware of new attacks that could affect their networks.
After closing its purchase of Mellanox in April, NVIDIA has announced its intent to buy Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed sum, adding the white-box switch vendors to its growing networking portfolio, and pushing the company to the front of the pack of the high-performance and cloud-scale networking segment.
Network security continues to become more complex, with greater context required to reliably weed out unhealthy activity at ever-higher data rates. Reservoir Labs is putting advanced analytics to work with a turbocharged packaging of the Zeek sensor to create greater levels of awareness and accelerate threat hunting.
The startup serves edge computing to more than 100 applications by aggregating capacity from multiple telecom facilities. It is adding private networks to the pool, including on-premises edge computing " a pragmatic move that will allow it to pursue immediate projects while waiting for more ambitious use cases.
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