John Fruehe
Independent analyst
John Fruehe has spent more than 25 years in enterprise technology, deriving a broad knowledge base through his work at AMD, Compaq, Dell and others. As an independent analyst, he focuses on the disruptive technologies that are transforming compute, with a primary emphasis on the enterprise networking and data center markets. John concentrates much of his current analysis on enterprise and consumer networking, including software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).
Fruehe spent four years as a senior analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, working with industry-leading technology customers, like AMD, Cisco, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Lenovo and Xilinx, as well as a variety of startups. Fruehe was also a contributing analyst for Tirias Research, focusing on network transformation, SDN, network functions virtualization, Wi-Fi and security.