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 company claims to have experienced strong growth in four out of five ASEAN countries where it operates. Together with Red Hat and a growing network of technology partners and MSPs, IBM has set out to drive open innovation with technologies such as ML/AI, data analytics, advanced security and blockchain.
The company operates in 53 availability zones across 26 countries and regions worldwide. Having established a cloud footprint that spans the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Tencent Cloud is preparing itself for a strategic play in the enterprise market by investing in certifications and expanding the scope of its partner ecosystem.
The company has simplified the onboarding experience for local ISVs, data providers and consulting companies in Australasia. This enables global customers opting for local expertise and resources to discover and purchase software from AWS Marketplace and third-party data from AWS Data Exchange.
The fintech startup has moved all payment applications, which used to be running on dedicated servers in a third-party datacenter, to a public cloud. The company entered into a strategic partnership with AWS to build an active-active architecture with workloads being deployed in two AWS regions and optimized for high availability.
ESDS has brought forth the notion of deploying community clouds to address common concerns raised by individual industry verticals. Having taken part in a number of e-governance and smart-city projects, the company is on a mission to transform the lives of Indian citizens with cloud-enabled services and vertical-specific offerings.
The company helped bring order out of chaos when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, leveraging in-house resources and a growing network of channel partners and distributors. As cloud usage begins to plateau in parts of Asia, NetApp is looking to accelerate product innovation.
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