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. 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. Brian holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA degree from Plymouth State University.