ESG Practice Director and Senior Analyst Bob Laliberte focuses on existing and emerging network technologies, converged and hyperconverged infrastructures, and application and network performance management solutions utilized by enterprises and service providers. He is particularly interested in software-defined and modern architectures that are driving the next wave of network and hybrid cloud infrastructure investments. Bob’s research spans from network trends for intelligent network automation across data center, campus, wireless, and WAN to the adoption of hybrid cloud infrastructure for on-premises clouds and the impact of AI/ML technologies in IT operations.