Agatha Poon is Senior Research Analyst for Asia-Pacific Services at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. 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.
While the global pandemic has dampened hopes for a speedy economic recovery, IBM India set its sights on the next phase of the country's inclusive growth agenda with three priorities: hybrid and multicloud deployment, digital transformation and AI everywhere.
Having first set foot in India in 2018, Alibaba Cloud shows no signs of slowing down when it comes to scaling its cloud business, and is hoping to carve out a niche with four pillars of market development: needs-based segmentation, product differentiation, strategic partnerships and skill development.
Aiming to transform from a technology vendor into an innovative digital partner, NxtGen sets out to steer clear of the COVID-19 fallout with co-creation initiatives. The Made for India program serves as a big draw for companies seeking to revamp their product and sales strategies with innovative technologies.
The company is a household name among India's developer community, and has gained ground in the enterprise and public sector segments over the past couple of years, particularly the latter arena, as central and state governments accelerate their digital transitions. AWS is zeroing in on helping transform four key areas: healthcare, livelihood, skilling and education, and inclusion.
The government of India has supported the use of open source technologies with open APIs to drive interoperability, and local businesses are rethinking their digital strategy with this in mind. Growing beyond the public sector, Red Hat is making a new kind of push into the business segment with open architecture, a hybrid cloud platform and automation.
Big Blue is making a fresh push into Asia's regulated landscape with its open hybrid cloud vision. The goal is to enable customers to deploy applications across multiple IT environments using an open-standards-based, secure and governed platform that is supported by a common management framework.
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