Jean is an analyst working across 451 Research's Cloud Transformation team and Digital Economics Unit. 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. She has developed a niche in new private-cloud pricing models, including pay-as-you-go and build-transfer-operate.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Jean worked at Ovum in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
Azure Static Web Apps is a new service that hosts single-page web applications in GitHub repositories. Using the popular JAMstack pattern for web development, it relies on plug-in Azure Functions to enable developers to quickly build and collaborate on globally distributed serverless apps regardless of underlying infrastructure.
The startup is dedicated to enabling cost optimization and chargeback for Kubernetes clusters at scale as IT environments become increasingly dynamic, distributed and complex. The program makes it possible to attribute costs to teams, applications and services across multiple public clouds and on-premises deployments
The Zoom conferencing app has become essential infrastructure for staying connected during the global COVID-19 pandemic, powering everything from remote classrooms to happy hours. At the beginning of the global work-from-home transition, the company tapped Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a new supplier to help cope with the growing surge in demand.
The company's hybrid cloud platform aims to simplify IT management by abstracting diverse infrastructure up to the Kubernetes layer. Google recently announced a handful of developments on the path to that goal, including support for AWS workloads and Azure, and a bare-metal deployment option.
The Cloud Price Index now produces more than 400 public cloud benchmarks each quarter for 10 regions around the world, spanning compute, storage, machine learning, database, serverless and network. The new format aggregates this data into a single spreadsheet, with tools that allow clients to chart time-based and geographical trends plus to build their own baskets of cloud services.
With a fresh $175m round of financing, a joint engineering partnership with Microsoft and membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the company has demonstrated its cloud-native bona fides and evolved a portfolio that enterprise IT departments can adopt at their own pace and adapt to their needs.
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