Carl Brooks is a Research Analyst for the Cloud Transformation Channel at 451 Research, now a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, covering service providers, cloud platforms and supply chain/channel for cloud. Previously, he spent several years researching and reporting on the emerging cloud market for TechTarget. Carl has also spent more than 10 years supporting small and medium-sized businesses with outsourced IT services as an IT consultant and network and systems administrator.
He specialized in server and desktop operations, Linux and Microsoft products, and security, and has thorough knowledge of hardware platforms and networking technologies, as well as significant experience working with the channel market.
Carl holds BA degrees in English and history from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and currently holds both IBM and AWS certifications in cloud infrastructure.
The company now has a central focus on cloud providers, and says that with the chip market undergoing a major shift in the last decade, its strategy has adapted to continue growth. A realistic assessment of Intel's prospects lies in understanding what drives cloud consumption and how.
The company has rebranded as Lumen, a move it says is intended to showcase a unified platform that crosses network, IT infrastructure and software services, including software-defined networking controls and network function virtualization. Lumen is looking to claim a role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
It what appears to a classic case of vendor synergy, VMware is putting part of its managed network service, VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud, in Equinix datacenters as part of Equinix's Network Edge portfolio. VMware will make its VMware SD-WAN Edge appliances available as virtual functions running on Equinix's gear.
Following up on its commitment to hybrid cloud and Azure Arc at last year's Ignite conference, Microsoft's hybrid cloud enablement strategy appears to be evolving, with a more granular focus on applications and business outcomes rather than basic functions like managing virtual machines and storage.
The company is pitching its own cloud software, the Wind River Cloud Platform, as a way to start bringing the vast fleets of deployed devices out there into a modern framework that crosses cloud computing, the edge and enterprise systems.
From 'sneaker net' to Snowball, large-scale data migration is a pain, but DEI offers a networking twist to help enterprises transfer data faster. The long-standing software company is trying to capitalize on its strengths to gain traction in the cloud transformation and cloud migration market.
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