Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

  • Scott Sinclair

    About

    Practice Director Scott Sinclair leads ESG’s analyst team focused on infrastructure, cloud and DevOps.

    Scott a proven history with 25+ years of experience in the server and storage industries. He uses his keen understanding, which he leveraged while investigating new technologies and designing business strategies for Fortune 500 technology companies, to solve unique problems for his clients.

    Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Scott held senior product management and marketing roles at enterprise storage vendors Dell Technologies and EMC Corp.

    Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and an MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cloud-native Storage
    • Composable
    • Computational Storage
    • Data Storage
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Hyperconverged (HCI)
    • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    • Intelligent/Automatic Infrastructure
    • Kubernetes
    • Server/Compute

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    Quoation Mark

    The cloud experience has been too beneficial to businesses for it to be isolated to off-premises public cloud services alone; the mission of contemporary IT is to extend the cloud experience everywhere.”

    Scott Sinclair
    Practice Director, Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps
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    Research Brief

    Navigating the Edge Data Deluge Is No Small Feat

    Edge computing locations are important and often mission-critical sites for business transactions and operations. As such, they can be the point of ingress for large volumes of data with varied processing and storage needs. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group examined the storage profile of edge sites for further insights into this landscape. Already […]

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    Scott Has Appeared In

    Blocks & Files
    CIO Dive
    Information Week
    ITPro Today
    SDX
  • Simon Robinson

    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.

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cloud-attached Storage
    • Cloud-native Storage
    • Flash-based Storage
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Hyperconverged infrastructure
    • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    • Primary Storage Arrays
    • Software-defined Storage
    • Storage Hardware
    • Storage Networking
    • Storage/Data Management

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    Quoation Mark

    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
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    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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