Contributors to Search Networking

Current Contributors

  • Leon Adato

    SolarWinds

  • Alex Arcilla

    Senior Validation Analyst

    Senior Validation Analyst Alex Arcilla develops technical and economic validations for networking, network security, cloud and data analytics topics.

  • JM Auron

    Quantum Tech Resumes

    JM Auron is the founder of Quantum Tech Resumes, where he works closely with IT clients to help build and advance their careers.

  • Rahul Awati

    Rahul Awati is a PMP-certified project manager with IT infrastructure experience spanning storage, compute and enterprise networking.

  • Lee Badman

    Lee Badman is a network architect specializing in wireless and cloud technologies for a large private university.

  • Nick Barney

    Technology Writer

    Nick Barney is a technology writer for WhatIs.com. Barney joined TechTarget after writing and editing for journals, news sites and technology companies.

  • Kevin Beaver

    Principle Logic, LLC

    Kevin Beaver is an information security consultant, writer, professional and speaker with Atlanta-based Principle Logic LLC.

  • Corinne Bernstein

    Corinne Bernstein has written and edited business and technology articles for more than 30 years.

  • Destiny Bertucci

    SolarWinds

    Destiny Bertucci is a head geek at SolarWinds.

  • Samuel Bickham

    NetCraftsmen

    Samuel Bickham is senior engineer at NetCraftsmen and has 12 years of experience in the networking industry.

  • Stephen J. Bigelow

    Senior Technology Editor

    Stephen J. Bigelow, senior technology editor in the Data Center and Virtualization media group, has more than 20 years of technical writing experience in the PC/technology industry.

  • Teren Bryson

  • John Burke

    Nemertes Research

    John Burke is CTO and a research analyst at Nemertes. He has worked at all levels of IT, including as a network administrator and network architect.

  • Natasha Carter

    Director of Partnerships and Event Content

    Natasha Carter is the director of partnerships and event content at TechTarget.

  • John Cavanaugh

    BlueAlly

    John Cavanaugh is vice president at the Office of the CTO at BlueAlly. He leads a consultancy team focused on designing secure infrastructure.

  • Mike Chapple

    University of Notre Dame

    Mike Chapple, Ph. D., CISA, CISSP, is a senior director of IT with the University of Notre Dame.

  • Gerry Christensen

    Mind Commerce

    Gerry Christensen is founder and CEO of Mind Commerce.

  • Michael Cobb

    Michael Cobb , CISSP-ISSAP is a renowned security author with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry.

  • Dan Conde

    Dan Conde is an IT analyst and consultant.

  • TechTarget Contributor

    Every day, millions of technology professionals rely on TechTarget’s network of sites to consume news analysis; read useful tutorials, how-tos and tips; and consume in-depth features and vendor product comparisons.

  • Jamison Cush

    Senior Executive Editor

    Jamison Cush is the senior executive editor of video content at TechTarget.

  • Deanna Darah

    Site Editor

    Deanna Darah, site editor for TechTarget Networking, joined TechTarget after graduating from UMass Lowell in 2021. She majored in English, focusing on journalism.

  • Lee Doyle

    Doyle Research

    Lee Doyle was a principal analyst at Doyle Research. At Doyle Research, Lee researched the evolution of intelligent networks: SDN, OPEX and COTS.

  • Kerry Doyle

    Kerry Doyle covers issues relevant to both IT and enterprise leaders through cogent white papers and analyses covering a diverse range of topics.

  • Alan R. Earls

    Alan R. Earls is a freelance writer focused on business and technology.

  • Jason Edelman

    Presidio

    Jason Edelman is a senior solutions architect who covers emerging and disruptive technologies, especially network virtualization and software-defined networking.

  • Pearson Education

    Pearson products are designed to support and advance career development for professionals.

  • McGraw Hill Education

    McGraw Hill Education empowers students, educators and lifelong learners to achieve their goals.

  • Rainer Enders

    Rainer Enders has over 25 years of experience in the networking and security industry, particularly VPN.

  • Jennifer English

    Executive Editor

    Jennifer English is executive editor for Networking and Cloud at TechTarget.

  • Kevin Ferguson

    Kevin Ferguson has written about technology for many years and for many publications. Kevin holds a BA in journalism from Rutgers University and an MPA from Harvard University.

  • Katherine Finnell

    Senior Site Editor

    Katherine Finnell is a senior site editor in the Networking and Security Media Group, working on SearchUnifiedCommunications.

  • Michael Finneran

    dBrn Associates Inc.

    Michael Finneran is an experienced analyst and consultant specializing in wireless and mobile technologies.

  • Laura Fitzgibbons

    Laura Fitzgibbons is a research writer, technical writer and technical illustrator specializing in science and technology content.

  • Jim Frey

    Principal Analyst

    Jim Frey covers networking as principal analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group.

  • Andrew Froehlich

    West Gate Networks

    Andrew Froehlich has been involved in enterprise IT for over 15 years. His primary focus has been in Cisco wired - wireless - voice network design, implementation and support as well as network security.

  • John Fruehe

    John Fruehe has spent more than 25 years in enterprise technology, deriving a broad knowledge base through his work at AMD, Compaq, Dell and others.

  • Andrew Gallo

  • Robin Gareiss

    Metrigy

    Robin Gareiss is CEO and principal analyst at Metrigy, which conducts research and advises enterprises and technology providers.

  • Damon Garn

    Cogspinner Coaction

    Damon Garn works as a freelance writer and editor and has written the Linux+, Cloud Essentials+, Cloud+ and Server+ CompTIA study guides.

  • Steve Garson

    SD-WAN Experts

    Steve Garson is president of SD-WAN Experts, where he helps companies design and install the SD-WAN option that best meets their business needs.

  • Kara Gattine

    Director of Editorial Operations

    In her role as executive managing editor, Kara coordinates and oversees the creation, editing and production of editorial projects for TechTarget's websites.

  • David Geer

    Geer Communications

  • Phillip Gervasi

    Phillip Gervasi is a New York-based network engineer.

  • Kate Gerwig

    Editorial Director

    Kate Gerwig is the editorial director for TechTarget's Networking, Security and Infrastructure Media Group.

  • Stan Gibson

    Stan Gibson Communications

    Stan Gibson, an award-winning technology writer and former executive editor at eWEEK and PC Week, is principal at Stan Gibson Communications.

  • Alexander S. Gillis

    Technical Writer and Editor

    Alexander S. Gillis is an assistant technical writer and editor in the WhatIs group at TechTarget.

  • Mike Gleason

    News Writer

    Mike Gleason is a reporter covering unified communications and end-user computing topics.

  • Carrie Goetz

    StrategITcom LLC

    Carrie Goetz is principal and CTO of StrategITcom, as well as a fractional CTO to several companies.

  • Antone Gonsalves

    News Director

    Antone Gonsalves is editor at large in the TechTarget Editorial News Group.

  • Fernando Gont

    SI6 Networks

  • Michaela Goss

    Senior Site Editor

    Michaela Goss is the senior site editor for SearchContentManagement and SearchCustomerExperience.

  • John Grady

    Principal Analyst

    Principal Analyst John Grady covers network security at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group.

  • Michael Gregg

    Superior Solutions, Inc.

    Michael Gregg of The Solution Firm has extensive experience securing networks. You can confidentially ask him your corporate network security questions here.

  • Sudhanshu Gupta

    Sudhanshu has over 10 years of extensive networking experience and is CCIE and MCSE certified.

  • Lynn Haber

    Senior Writer

    Lynn Haber is the senior writer for SearchITChannel.com. Prior to joining TechTarget she worked for many years as an independent business and technology editor.

  • Silvia Hagen

    Sunny Connection AG

    IPv6 expert Silvia Hagen is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a senior consultant and analyst for many mid-size and large sized companies.

  • David Harbeck

    Editorial Assistant

    David Harbeck, an editorial intern at TechTarget, is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, where he's majoring in journalism.

  • Jo Harder

    Jo Harder has been involved with virtualization for over 19 years. She focuses on Citrix virtualization solutions and has been a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) for four years.

  • Brenda L. Horrigan

    Executive Managing Editor

    Brenda L. Horrigan is an executive managing editor with extensive publishing and international affairs experience.

  • Lindi Horton

    ServiceMesh

    Lindi Horton is senior product manager at ServiceMesh and has more than 10 years of networking experience.

  • Patrick Hubbard

    SolarWinds

  • Alissa Irei

    Senior Site Editor

    Alissa Irei is senior site editor for TechTarget Security. In previous roles at TechTarget, she was a senior writer for TechTarget Networking, TechTarget Security and TechTarget Unified Communications; features and e-zine editor for Network Evolution; and site editor for SearchSDN.

  • David Jacobs

    The Jacobs Group

    David B. Jacobs of The Jacobs Group has more than 30 years of networking industry experience. He has managed leading-edge software development projects and consulted to Fortune 500 companies as well as software start-ups.

  • Johna Till Johnson

    Nemertes Research

    Johna Till Johnson is CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients.

  • Dan Jones

    Dan Jones is a tech journalist with 20 years of experience, covering topics like 5G, IoT, 4G and enterprise Wi-Fi.

  • Mike Jude

    Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan

    Mike Jude is a program manager at Stratecast/Frost + Sullivan in charge of the consumer communication services practice.

  • Glen Kemp

    Glen Kemp is a professional services consultant in the United Kingdom. He designs and deploys network and application security tools, including access control and firewalls.

  • Sean Michael Kerner

    Sean Michael Kerner is an IT consultant, technology enthusiast and tinkerer, and has been known to spend his spare time immersed in the study of the Klingon language and satellite pictures of Area 51.

  • Zeus Kerravala

    ZK Research

    Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research. Kerravala provides a mix of tactical and long-term strategic advice to constituents, including end-user IT and network managers; vendors of IT hardware, software and services; and the IT investment community. Prior to ZK Research, Kerravala was a senior vice president and distinguished research fellow with Yankee Group.

  • Evgeniy Kharam

    EK Cyber and Media Consulting

    Evgeniy Kharam leads a cybersecurity firm, hosts two podcasts and is co-founder of the Ski & Snowboard CyberSecurity Conference.

  • Paul Kirvan

    Paul Kirvan is an independent consultant/IT auditor and technical writer/editor/educator. He has more than 25 years experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, security, enterprise risk management, telecomm/IT auditing.

  • Venus Kohli

    Venus Kohli is a freelance technical writer, focusing on electronics, electrical, networking and quantum technologies.

  • Charles Kolodgy

    Security Mindsets

    Charles Kolodgy is principal at Security Mindsets and has specialized in cybersecurity and unified threat management for more than 30 years.

  • Paul Korzeniowski

    Paul Korzeniowski is a freelance writer and leading industry voice with more than 10,000 articles published.

  • Bob Laliberte

    Former Principal Analyst

    Bob Laliberte was formerly a principal analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group.

  • Alicia Landsberg

    Senior managing Editor

    Alicia Landsberg is the senior managing editor for the BrightTALK summits team at TechTarget.

  • George Lawton

    George Lawton is a journalist based in London with over 30 years of experience writing about computers, communications, knowledge management, business and health.

  • Irwin Lazar

    Metrigy Research

    Irwin Lazar is President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy Research, where he leads coverage on the Digital Workplace.

  • Mike Leone

    Principal Analyst

    Mike Leone leads coverage of data platforms, analytics and AI at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group.

  • David Linthicum

    Deloitte Consulting

    David Linthicum is a cloud expert who writes about cloud management, among other topics.

  • Peter Loshin

    Former Senior Technology Editor

    Peter Loshin is a former TechTarget senior technology editor.

  • Ben Lutkevich

    Site Editor

    Ben is a site editor for Software Quality.

  • James Maimonis

    Associate Editor

    James Maimonis is the Associate Editor for TechTarget's SearchSDN site. James comes from Hometown Publications, where he was the editor of the Westwood, Walpole and Dover-Sherborn Hometown Weekly newspapers. James has also been a freelance sports reporter in the area. He majored in journalism at Quinnipiac University.

  • Duncan McCay

    News writer

    Duncan McCay is the news writer for the Networking Media Group.

  • Shamus McGillicuddy

    Enterprise Management Associates

    Shamus is the vice president of research for the network management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). He has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry, primarily as a journalist covering the network infrastructure market.

  • O'Reilly Media

    Through its books and online learning material, O'Reilly Media supports professionals in their ongoing quest for expertise in the IT industry.

  • Jim Metzler, Ph.D.

    Ashton, Metzler & Associates

    Dr. Jim Metzler is widely recognized as an authority on both network technology and its business applications.

  • Madelaine Millar

    TechTarget

    Madelaine Millar is a news writer covering network technology at TechTarget. She has previously covered tech for MIT's Lincoln Lab and Khoury College.

  • Chuck Moozakis

    Editor at Large

    Chuck Moozakis is editor at large of the Networking and Security Media Group.

  • Verlaine Muhungu

    Verlaine Muhungu is a tech enthusiast and aspiring Cisco Press author, focused on network automation, penetration testing and secure coding practices.

  • Jerald Murphy

    Nemertes Research

    Jerry Murphy is a contributor with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and currently serves as SVP of Research and Consulting at Nemertes.

  • Will Murrell

    UNICOM Systems, Inc.

    Will Murrell is a network engineer with more than 15 years of experience, and a U.S. Army veteran. He has worked for both EMC and Cisco, and is currently a consultant in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area. He advises companies of all sizes on WAN, LAN, security, data center and SDN technologies.

  • Paul Nashawaty

    Paul Nashawaty formerly covered infrastructure modernization and application modernization at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group.

  • Tom Nolle

    Andover Intel

    Tom Nolle is founder and principal analyst at Andover Intel. He has experience as a programmer, software architect and product manager.

  • Amy Novotny

    Senior Managing Editor

    Amy Novotny is Senior Managing Editor of TechTarget's Content Innovation and Amplification Group.

  • Luke O'Neill

    Executive Editor

    Luke O'Neill is executive editor of the Unified Communications, Customer Experience and Content Management websites at TechTarget.

  • Beth Pariseau

    Senior News Writer

    Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for the Cloud/DevOps group at TechTarget.

  • Tessa Parmenter

    Contributor

    Tessa Parmenter is a former site editor for TechTarget websites SearchUnifiedCommunications.com and SearchEnterpriseWAN.com.

  • Chris Partsenidis

    Firewall.cx

    Chris Partsenidis is the founder and editor in chief of www.Firewall.cx -- one of the few websites recommended by Cisco Systems.

  • Andy Patrizio

    Andy Patrizio is a veteran technology journalist based in southern California.

  • Ivan Pepelnjak

  • Sabrina Polin

    Managing Editor

    Sabrina Polin is a managing editor for TechTarget's Video Content team.

  • Brien Posey

    Brien Posey is a former 22-time Microsoft MVP and Commercial Astronaut Candidate. He has served as a lead network engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense and as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America.

  • No Starch Press

    No Starch Press publishes the finest in IT 'geek entertainment,' with volumes on programming, cybersecurity, hacking, sys admin and more.

  • Manning Publications Co.

    Established in 1993, Manning Publications is an independent and innovative publisher of books for the IT community.

  • Packt Publishing

    Packt Publishing aims to put software to work in new ways by providing IT professionals high-caliber learning materials and services.

  • Elsevier Publishing

    Elsevier

    Elsevier delivers an array of materials -- journals, reference sources, e-books and more -- to aid those working in the scientific research world.

  • Dmitry Raidman is co-founder of Cybeats Technologies and co-founder of Security Architecture Podcast.

  • Mary Reines

    News Writer

    Mary Reines is a news writer at TechTarget covering networking.

  • Scott Robinson

    New Era Technology

    Scott Robinson is an enterprise data architect at New Era Technology, a global digital transformation firm. He is a 25-year IT veteran.

  • Simon Robinson

    Principal Analyst

    Simon Robinson is a principal analyst at TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group who focuses on existing and emerging storage and hyperconverged infrastructure technologies.

  • Linda Rosencrance

    Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer and editor in the Boston area.

  • Dave Shackleford

    Voodoo Security

    Dave Shackleford is founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security, as well as a SANS analyst, instructor and course author, and GIAC technical director.

  • Mary E. Shacklett

    Transworld Data

    Mary E. Shacklett is president of Transworld Data, a technology analytics, market research and consulting firm.

  • Sharon Shea

    Executive Editor

    Sharon Shea is executive editor of TechTarget Security.

  • Robert Sheldon

    Robert Sheldon, technical consultant and freelance technology writer, has written numerous books, articles and training materials.

  • Terry Slattery

    NetCraftsmen

    Terry Slattery is principal architect at NetCraftsmen and has 20 years of network consulting and design work experience.

  • Robert Sturt

    Netify

  • Katie Terrell Hanna

    Katie Terrell Hanna is a freelance writer and content marketing professional for a variety of enterprise technology companies.

  • Elizabeth Thorne

    TeleGeography

    Elizabeth Thorne is a research analyst focusing on enterprise networks with TeleGeography.

  • Ed Tittel

    Ed Tittel is a 30-plus year IT veteran who has worked as a developer, networking consultant, technical trainer and writer.

  • Kevin Tolly

    The Tolly Group

    Kevin Tolly is the founder of The Tolly Group, a leading provider of third-party validation and testing services for over two decades.

  • Charles Uneze

    Charles Uneze is a technical writer with a keen interest in open source software.

  • Nicole Viera

    Assistant Site Editor

    Nicole Viera is an assistant site editor for TechTarget's Networking site. Her professional background is in academic publishing.

  • Julian Weinberger

    NCP engineering

    Julian Weinberger is the director of systems engineering at NCP engineering.

  • David Weldon

    David Weldon is a business and technology writer who covers data management, information security, healthcare technology and other topics.

  • Ron Westfall

    The Futurum Group

    Ron Westfall is research director at The Futurum Group, covering 5G, cloud computing and security.

  • Russ White

    Russ White has more than 20 years' experience in designing, deploying, breaking and troubleshooting large-scale networks.

  • Gavin Wright

    Gavin Wright is a high-tech and computer engineering veteran with over 15 years of experience.

  • Kinza Yasar

    Technical Writer

    Kinza Yasar is a technical writer at TechTarget. She has a background in IT, including a focus on networking in the telecommunications industry.

  • Andrew Zola

    Andrew Zola is a freelance technology journalist with bylines everywhere.

  • Steve Zurier

    ZFeatures

  • Mariusz Zydyk

Past Contributors