Jean is an analyst working across the Cloud Transformation team and Digital Economics Unit of 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In addition to producing the quarterly Cloud Price Index deliverables, Jean covers vendors and cloud providers that offer technology or services to manage or improve public and private cloud TCO, performance or consumption. In the cloud-native universe, she focuses on container-native software, serverless architectures and service mesh.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Jean worked at Omdia in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
The company's ninth annual re:Invent conference was the first to be entirely virtual, drawing more than 400,000 registrations for the three-week program. This report focuses on some of the significant core cloud developments from week one.
Enterprises can go faster with the cloud and be more efficient with microservices, but they can't simply dispense with on-premises assets. As distributed deployments scale up and extend to on- and off-premises resources, a service mesh is needed to coordinate all the moving parts. Tetrate is providing its own multi-tenant, extensible, zero trust mesh to connect hybrid environments.
Cloud native enables organizations to ship software faster, delivering incremental value more quickly than was previously possible. Crucially, it allows organizations to operate with cloud independence. 5G, edge and IoT present the next buildout market opportunity, with Kubernetes set to reign.
COVID-19's unpredictability and the cloud's ability to scale without reservation has made cloud a critical technology in 2020. The flexibility it enables has supported homeworking, online entertainment and schooling, videoconferencing and the ability for companies to reinvent themselves. In 2021, COVID-19 will continue to act as a catalyst for cloud adoption, and enterprises will demand technologies and services that support adoption.
Slated for general availability in early 2021, the platform will bring together components built on the company's open source API gateway, service mesh and ingress controller. The goal is to offer enterprise architects, developers and operations teams consistent access to the connectivity services they need through a single management plane.
In a year like no other, the promise of application-level service networking remains great, and the fundamental trade-off of extensibility vs. stability is being tested as deployments scale. Envoy remains the standard-bearer for the data plane, and Istio continues to gain adherents as a control plane despite governance concerns.
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