Christian Canales is a Senior Director, Analyst with Gartner's High Tech and Investment's (HTI), Emerging Market Dynamics Group and is responsible for providing business and technology insights. Mr. Canales specializes in analyzing the intersection between AI and enterprise (business) networking technologies, including network security and WAN edge. He also covers the enterprise wired and wireless LAN market, encompassing market trends, competitive landscapes, and buying behavior and implementation best practices.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Canales worked as a statistics coordinator for telecommunication projects in Gartner's Statistical Unit in London.
Research International, Market Researcher, 1 years
Product Strategy and Go-to-Market Execution in the CSP Industry
AI, Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure
Technology Market Business and Economics
Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services
Degree, University of Westminster, London
Market trends, competitive landscape and market sizing for the overall enterprise network equipment market, including LAN, WAN and network security technologies
LAN vendor evaluation (switches and WLAN equipment) and implementation best practices
Enterprise network equipment vendor market shares, including network switches, WLAN (Wi-Fi), SD-WAN, firewall, NDR and ZTNA
Network firewall and FWaaS market trends, including SASE as an adjacent market
Network detection and response (NDR)