Jean Atelsek is a senior research analyst working across the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation channel and digital economics unit of 451 Research, a technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. She covers vendors and technologies that manage or optimize public and private cloud total cost of operations, performance or consumption. This includes FinOps products, platforms and providers that help organizations forecast, analyze and optimize cloud spending based on data collected from the IT environment. In the cloud-native universe, Jean focuses on container-native software and platforms, serverless architectures, service mesh, and the converging worlds of observability, runtime policy enforcement and application networking. She also covers technology accelerators for application modernization, including the application of natural language processing and generative AI to effect code translation. As a maintainer of the quarterly Cloud Price Index, Jean tracks benchmark pricing for a selection of infrastructure and managed services around the world. With data collected from millions of hyperscaler SKUs, she looks at trends in pricing, service additions and regional expansion plans for the major public cloud providers. Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Jean worked at Omdia in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
Under the auspices of the CNCF, Kubernetes has evolved to accommodate a range of use cases, from micro versions in cars to massive distributed compute clusters for AI training. As the standard matures and adoption grows, offshoots are demonstrating its ability to adapt to emerging business needs.
Both disciplines focus on maximizing business value from IT investments. While FinOps is expanding its remit to move beyond cloud-based infrastructure and into SaaS, PaaS and on-premises, Apptio's TBM offers a more holistic view that brings human capital and legacy resources into the TCO equation.
The company is on a mission to bolster its North American profile. Its Uvance unit sits at the core of its strategy going forward. Fujitsu Uvance is a digital transformation, services-oriented global business brand that focuses on combining consulting capabilities delivered by Uvance consultants with the vendor's Kozuchi AI platform.
At the most recent VMware Explore conference, a revived definition of private cloud led a newly streamlined product set; major news was the announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. The first conference after the Broadcom acquisition was a smaller event, but one with greater focus.
The company is embracing its position at the infrastructure layer while extending further into hyperscale clouds and adding data services to enhance its core storage offerings. NetApp is leaning in on empowering customers through their data, whether on storage devices, as a service or via public cloud.
The company is developing its offering to meet evolving market realities and customer demand. This requires incorporating new standards, adding integrations and features to fill market gaps in cost visibility, and supporting spend management for a range of personas, from startup generalists to enterprise platform engineers.
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