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Clients trust us across their GTMs—from strategy and product development to competitive insights and content creation—because we deliver high-quality, actionable support.
Browse our extensive library of research reports, research-based content, and blogs for actionable data and expert analysis of the latest B2B technology trends, market dynamics, and business opportunities.
Principal Analyst Mike Leone leads ESG’s analyst team focused on data management, analytics and artificial intelligence.
Mike draws upon his enthusiasm for bleeding-edge technology and his engineering and marketing background to provide a unique perspective to enterprise technology vendors. At Enterprise Strategy Group, Mike focuses on all things data, analytics, and AI. His passion shines through in helping organizations improve everything from go-to-market strategies and messaging to product development and content creation.
Mike has a strong technical background, with early roles in software and hardware engineering focused on future product feasibility, modeling, and performance. He gradually moved into roles that interfaced with marketing by helping translate deep technical concepts into understandable business benefits.
Mike holds a BS in Computer Science from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.
While data has the power to transform the business in radical ways, achieving data excellence requires an equal balance of tightly integrated technology, well-defined processes, and the empowerment of all stakeholders to confidently bring the right data to every decision.”
Mike Leone Practice Director, Data Management, Analytics & AI
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on responsible AI maturity, prioritization, best practices, terms, outcomes, challenges, responses to issues, bias mitigation, measurements, acceptable fairness levels, data and analytics impact, and stakeholders. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription Client but would like to […]
Practice Director Melinda Marks leads ESG’s analyst team focused on cybersecurity. Melinda covers technologies that help organizations scale safely while adopting faster cloud-native development cycles.
With more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing and strategy, Melinda is passionate about conveying product value and differentiation and driving revenue.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Melinda was chief marketing and strategy officer for Soluble, a startup focused on automating application security testing for developers (acquired by Lacework). She was also VP of Marketing at Armorblox, VP of Marketing at Styra, and head of marketing for StackRox (acquired by Red Hat). Her experience includes running competitive/market intelligence and product marketing teams at Tenable and running global communications for four years at Qualys. She also spent many years at VMware, where she built its original customer reference program, led product PR, and was on the core planning team for VMworld since its inception.
Melinda is a Synopsys Outreach Foundation board member. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
Areas of Expertise
API Security
Application Security
Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms
Cloud-native Technologies
Container Security
Secure DevOps (DevSecOps)
Web Application Security Testing (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA)
Security solutions are evolving rapidly to meet the needs of rapid modern software development lifecycles and digital transformation leveraging cloud platforms.”
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the scope of cloud-native application development environments, including the top challenges associated with securing cloud-native applications and the security solutions in place to protect cloud infrastructure and applications. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription Client […]
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.
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
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 […]
