Agatha Poon is Research Director for Asia-Pacific Services at 451 Research. She joined 451 Research in April 2010, bringing more than 15 years of experience as a market research professional and expertise in cloud computing and business transformation strategies. She is instrumental in providing support for advisory service engagements and leads the research program in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on cloud services and digital strategies.
Prior to joining 451 Research in April 2010, Agatha was a Senior Analyst at Yankee Group for more than 10 years, tracking a wide range of research topics including managed services, IP telephony, WAN optimization, application acceleration, cloud computing deployment models and cloud management solutions. Before Yankee Group, she worked as a Research Analyst in Frost & Sullivan's Telecommunications Service group, where she primarily focused on network access technologies. Agatha has a high degree of familiarity with the Greater China and Japanese markets, having spent time in these areas during her career.
Agatha has been a regular speaker at numerous professional gatherings and industry events, including CommunicAsia, Cloud Expo Asia, Cloud Tech Forum, Cloud Connect China, and HostingCon Global.
She holds a BA and an MBA in marketing from Ohio University. She was awarded a full scholarship for the MBA program.
The official launch of ESContainer, a lightweight container cluster based on Kubernetes and tuned for application development and management, represents a major milestone in the company's efforts to develop a truly open cloud platform that combines the composable nature of OpenStack with the agility of Kubernetes-based container technology.
Having a complete unified cloud management mechanism to orchestrate and govern end-to-end IT service delivery is the order of the day for NTT Com. To that end, the company is working toward closing the gap for interconnected SD-Exchange with major cloud players.
As part of the thriving OpenStack vendor ecosystem, Mirantis has been busy forging strategic partnerships for accelerated growth. Following its partnership with NTT to offer fully managed private OpenStack as a Service in late 2016, the company has recently teamed up with Fujitsu.
This Market Monitor overview report on the 'cloud computing as a service' marketplace reflects updated market and vendor estimates through Q1 2017. In this report, we examine the revenue generated by cloud service providers and technology vendors via cloud platforms - IaaS and PaaS - as well as IT management as a service (ITMaaS), online backup/recovery and cloud archiving.
We look at the state of play of Telstra PBS and telkomtelstra, the two strategic investments that Telstra made as part of its global expansion strategy.
With all eyes turning to China as the fertile ground for open source technologies, OpenStack in particular, we take a closer look at the latest market development and the fast-growing ecosystem of vendors and service providers.
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