Liam Eagle is a Research Vice President, Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services. He is responsible for the Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services study, and the Voice of the Service Provider study. His research examines web and application hosting, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure. His research focuses in part on the adaptation of traditional hosting technologies and models to accommodate emerging needs. These include web presence SaaS, the focus on web professionals and the channel market for cloud infrastructure.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Liam was editor-in-chief at the Web Host Industry Review, where he managed a full-time editorial staff of four, along with dozens of freelancers and other contributors. In several years as co-chair of HostingCon, he built the educational program for one of the industry's most highly regarded and well-attended events.
Liam has closely covered the hosting market for more than 15 years, giving him a front-row seat for many of the transformative trends that have, shaped the business, including the emergence of virtualization and cloud technologies, and the development of the hosting market's partner ecosystem. He has spoken at the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, HostingCon, World Hosting Days, Parallels Summit, Open-Xchange Summit and other industry events. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.
The M&A Outlook 2020 report represents 451 Research's comprehensive analysis of recent M&A activity and our forecast for trends that are expected to shape dealmaking in the coming year. All acquisition data comes from 451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase, the industry's only technology-specific M&A database. The outlook and specific predictions for acquisition activity in six key IT sectors come from extensive research and forecasts from the more than 100 analysts at 451 Research.
As a newly stand-alone company, Aptum has worked to develop its product and technology roadmap and assemble a leadership team that can execute on its plans, with its own digital transformation key to its strategy.
In a year marked by small datacenter pickups rather than large packaged buys, overall deal value declined in 2019 amid an uptick in volume in the hosting and managed services market. Consolidation in the sector is expected to continue in 2020 as MSPs seek to add skills and customers while datacenter firms push to gain scale and expand geographically.
Addressing the complexity that comes with cloud requires specialized skill sets, and enterprises face challenges acquiring these skills. Access to the necessary talent is quickly becoming the most significant roadblock to effective use of cloud, and is becoming the basis for how managed service providers go to market.
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