Former Arbor co-founder Ted Julian has joined Yankee Group as principal analyst and key member of the network infrastructure team. In this role, Julian will leverage his more than 15 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of network intelligence and security. Most recently senior VP of marketing at database security startup Applications Security, Julian was also co-founder and chief strategist of pioneering security firm Arbor Networks. Prior to that, he co-founded Internet security startup @stake and served in key network analysis positions at Forrester Research and IDC. At Yankee Group, Julian’s area of coverage will be the Intelligent Network, including: network policy management platforms, Web-based security, managed DNS services, deep packet inspection (DPI), peer-to-peer communications, DNSSec and IPv6.
Telecom marketing and operations software expert Susan McNeice joins Yankee Group as VP of software research and a key member of the Anywhere Network® team. In this role, Susan will leverage her more than 25 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of telecom marketing, operations and OSS/BSS software strategy. She comes to Yankee Group from Stratecast, a division of Frost