About
Principal Analyst Simon Robinson has more than 25 years of experience leading analyst teams and producing research and insight into all aspects of digital infrastructure.
Simon focuses on delivering research insights into the rapidly evolving technology landscape to help clients position their infrastructure solutions for success.
Simon was an IT journalist and editor before becoming a founding analyst at 451 Research, where he led the storage and infrastructure research practice. He is an industry-recognized authority, commentator, and public speaker on a range of emerging storage technologies, including disk-based backup, object storage, cloud storage, all-flash storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Simon also led survey-based products and managed 451’s analyst team prior to the company’s acquisition by S&P Global in 2019. He assumed overall responsibility for the Technology, Media and Telecoms research team following S&P’s acquisition of IHS Markit.
Simon is based in the UK and has a degree in Economics from the University of Central Lancashire.
Data is an organization’s lifeblood, at the heart of next-generation intelligent applications and services. As data becomes ever more distributed it’s never been more important for IT organizations to build out a modern, performant, intelligent, and connected data storage infrastructure; it’s increasingly a critical, foundational piece of any successful organization.”
Simon Robinson
Principal Analyst, Storage & Converged Infrastructure
Research Brief
AI Is the Leading Driver of Storage and HCI Projects in 2024
Organizations seeking digital transformation success are ensuring their operations run on modernized infrastructure. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group found that as AI initiatives pervade a variety of teams and departmental goals, IT leaders are swinging their focus from augmenting the compute layer to optimizing their storage. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log […]
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Latest Insights from Simon
Research Brief | November 7, 2024
NetApp Delivers Block Storage Performance and Simplicity With New ASA Lineup
Research Brief | October 17, 2024
Pure Aims to Reinvent File Storage for the Modern Era With Real-time Enterprise File
Blog | May 29, 2024
Nutanix Transcends HCI Roots As It Eyes ‘One Operating Model’ for All Apps
Research Brief | May 28, 2024