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 has been on a mission to help enterprise customers devise digitally enabled business models and strategies. The moment of truth arrived when businesses took the unprecedented step of running their operations in work-from-home mode during the COVID-19 lockdown.
In a bid to accelerate growth, Orange says it is committed to deepening customer relationships, investing in employees, and driving business sustainability, and it has set forth three strategic plans that align with the commitments. The company has also updated its partner program and is working on cloud-native transformation projects.
Following the announcement of its collaboration with Telehouse America to serve as a single-source provider of datacenter, managed cloud and connectivity services for US-headquartered enterprises and Japan-based MNCs operating in the US, KDDI America has launched a cloud-based advanced messaging offering enabled by Infobip.
With the release of this technical preview version of the platform, Cloudera hopes to cement its position as the enterprise data cloud company. In Asia-Pacific, it has acquired a number of new logos, including a major deal with LINE, the leading OTT messaging provider in Japan, and is maintaining its growth momentum in banking and finance, and the public sectors.
The company ramped up its coverage of AWS Outposts in Asia-Pacific, adding eight new countries to its general availability release since the beginning of the year. Together with its initial launch in Australia, Japan and South Korea, AWS Outposts is now available for customers in 11 markets across Asia-Pacific.
While the company is mindful of the crippling consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns, it is set to transcend the values of its cloud@core strategy. Sify's ultimate goal is to help customers going digital, using a platform-centric approach. It has maintained consistent growth in revenue for the past five years, and is increasing its customer base for hybrid and multicloud deployments.
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