The 451 Group

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The 451 Group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Clients of the company – at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations – rely on 451 insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making for competitive advantage.

The 451 Group is headquartered in New York, with offices in key locations, including San Francisco, London and Boston. The company also operates Tier 1 Research – an independent division of The 451 Group, headquartered in Minneapolis – which analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors.

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[edit] Services

The company’s services include: 451 Market Insight Service, which delivers daily insight into emerging enterprise IT markets; 451 TechDealmaker, a forward-looking weekly analysis service focused on M&A activity within the enterprise IT business; 451 M&A KnowledgeBase, a web-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions database service covering IT, communications and Internet deals, integrated with 451 analyst insight; 451 Special Reports, which are produced on a periodic basis to analyze key emerging enterprise IT markets in greater depth; 451 Strategic Counsel, the company's analyst-inquiry program, which provides clients with direct access to 451 analysts; 451 Grid Adoption Research Service (GARS), an investigation into user experiences and vendor strategies that tracks grid computing adoption via 10 thematic reports per year; and the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service, a first-of-its-kind analytical service designed to help enterprise end users, software vendors and investors track and understand the opportunities and threats presented by open source.

[edit] Key staff

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Martin McCarthy Chief Executive Officer [New York]

Simon Carruthers Vice President, Research Services [New York]

Tim Miller Vice President and General Manager, Financial Markets [San Francisco]

Adam Needles Vice President, Development and Marketing and General Manager, 451 Events [Boston]

ANALYSIS

John Abbott Chief Analyst [London]

William Fellows Principal Analyst [London]

Nick Patience Managing Analyst and Sector Head, Enterprise Software [New York]

Henry Baltazar Storage Analyst [San Francisco]

Lee Bruno Editorial Director, Special Reports [San Francisco]

Dennis Callaghan Analyst, Enterprise Software [Boston]

Rachel Chalmers Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software [San Francisco]

Brenon Daly Financial Analyst [San Francisco]

Jim Davis Senior Analyst, Networks & Media [San Francisco]

Andy Dornan Analyst, networks [San Francisco]

Karin Kelley Research Associate [San Francisco]

Simon Neller Research Associate [London]

Christopher Noble Director of Research [London]

Sara Palmbush Analyst, Mobile Software [San Francisco]

Adam Phipps Research Associate, Financial Markets [San Francisco]

Greg Quick Analyst, Storage & Systems [San Francisco]

Tony Rizzo Sector Head, Mobile Software [New York]

Simon Robinson Sector Head, Storage & Systems [San Francisco]

Krishna Roy Analyst, Enterprise Software [London]

Martin Schneider Senior analyst, Enterprise Software [New York]

Andreas Schneider Research Associate [Boston]

Nick Selby Senior Analyst, Enterprise Security [Boston]

Steve Steinke Senior Analyst, Networks [San Francisco]

Steve Wallage Director of Research [London]

Raven Zachary Senior Analyst and Practice Head, Open Source [San Francisco]

[edit] Sources

Compiled from The 451 Group.

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