I’m excited to unveil what I’ve been working on for the past three months: Helping to launch Fierce Network Research, the research arm of the Fierce Network technology news portal.

Fierce Network Research is dedicated to delivering insights on the impact, benefits and challenges of the new era of smart networking for communications service providers (CSPs) and enterprises.

We call this new-era networking Smart Cloud. It combines cloud, observability, automation, AI and security to build communications infrastructure essential to global economic and societal transformation.

We’re seeing the entire built world become intelligent — smart transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, automation, healthcare, energy and more. Everything that drives the economy and society is becoming connected, saturated with sensors and using artificial intelligence and automation to make smart decisions that improve productivity and efficiency.

None of that works without Smart Cloud connectivity.

I’m part of the Fierce Network Research team as Chief Analyst, defining the research business’s point of view and taking overall responsibility for its research into the latest global trends.

About me: I’ve been covering enterprise and telco technology for more than 30 years, including leadership positions at Light Reading and InformationWeek. I also helped drive content marketing in a full-time position at Oracle and as a consultant for business-to-business technology companies for the data center, cloud platform, networking and security spaces.

For more information on our current and upcoming reports, go here: It’s time to meet Fierce Network Research

And here’s the website: research.fierce-network.com