Dan Kusnetzky has joined The 451 Group as vice president of research operations. In addition to heading up research operations, he will ramp up The 451 Group's market research and analysis on cloud computing and virtualization. He is a well-established analyst and blogger with a reputation spanning his own analyst practice as Kusnetzky Group, his ZDNet blog and more than a decade with IDC."Our clients rely on us to provide straight talk about who wins and who loses as a result of disruptive changes in IT," said Martin V.McCarthy, Chief Executive Officer of The 451 Group. "And cloud computing is one of the most profound changes we have seen in two decades. Dan's addition will be key to helping us assess the viability of these and other emerging segments for vendors, investors, bankers and technology end users."Dan Kusnetzky brings The 451 Group more than three decades of industry experience. Before joining the senior team of The 451 Group, Kusnetzky was Principal Analyst at KG LLC. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Corporate and Marketing Strategy for Open-Xchange, a software company that provides open-source collaborative solutions.Kusnetzky also spent 12 years at International Data Corporation (IDC), four of them as Vice President of System Software Research. During this time, he led an extended team of 16 analysts and created an industry-leading research practice based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis.Prior to that, Kusnetzky spent 16 years with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was responsible for program and product management and marketing in the areas of client software, server software, and clustered and networked systems, and he had the responsibility of being the Intel/UNIX Business Manager.

Jonathan Eunice

Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata

Mr. Eunice is a recognized authority on networked information technologies and their application. In his nearly twenty years as an analyst, he has authored hundreds of publications and client inquiry responses on system architectures, operating environments, middleware, security, management utilities, and development tools. His books include MVS vs Unix: Midnight in the Garden of Open and Proprietary, Enterprise Systems Management, Unix in Transition, Unix Matures, and Leaders in Object Technology. In addition to hands-on systems management experience, Mr. Eunice has taught and used programming languages as diverse as Ada, C, Java, Perl, Prolog, and Smalltalk. He has briefed clients and given presentations internationally. Mr. Eunice holds degrees in Mathematics/Computer Science and Philosophy.