Amy Hedrick is an Associate Research Analyst for the Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) data team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. She has interviewed hundreds of technology professionals for the VotE narrative offering, across various sectors including digital transformation, cloud, infrastructure/datacenters, security, AI/ML and the Internet of Things.
Previously she was an analyst with AMR Research, covering the integration space; before that, she spent 11 years in research and marketing roles to support Harbinger's pioneering B2B software and network services.
Amy earned an undergraduate double major in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA and Latin American Studies certificate from the University of Florida-Gainesville and a PhD from Georgia State University in Marketing/International Business.
IT professionals in our Voice of the Enterprise in-depth interviews often mention several large cloud providers in the same breath, as essentially 'equal' choices. This begs the question: At a high level, how much do end users differentiate between major cloud providers?
For many organizations, digital transformation is an ongoing journey, in which using new combinations of data and logic is a very strategic part. For some time, IT professionals have been assuring us that those data and logic strategies " analytics, AI, ML, automation " are all great, but at the same time admitting that they're not doing much yet. Now we're hearing about some project plans.
We've been hearing from IT professionals about organizational decisions concerning hiring, firing and training. It's been a crazy year for workers, as reduced revenue has forced employers to make difficult decisions. And these personnel decisions are being made against a widely publicized and highly visible background of changing societal views and perceptions.
IT work is essentially skills-based " writing code, operating infrastructure tools and configuring networks, for example. Because those skills can be assessed via nonsubjective metrics, there should be less potential bias in hiring and promotion.
More than 1,200 quantitative online surveys were conducted with IT professionals, plus 26 in-depth interviews with enterprises during April and May 2015. The latest findings focus on datacenter investment, utilization, capacity planning and use of colocation and cloud service providers.
451 Research is expanding its coverage of the enterprise datacenter market. In October 2014, roughly 900 senior IT professionals completed extensive quantitative online surveys, and our analysts conducted 25 in-depth interviews with industry-leading enterprises. The Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters study presents a thorough analysis of these surveys as experts described their business/industry challenges and outlined their datacenter strategies going forward.
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