Brian Partridge is a Research Director for the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native Technologies research channels at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In these roles, Brian has overall responsibility for channel research deliverables and team management. As a researcher he actively contributes to the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and edge computing research agendas and has subject matter expertise in telecom systems and strategy, mobility and enterprise networking domains.