Liam Eagle is a Research Manager, VotE Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services. 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.
The data protection market has seen a convergence of products as previously separate capabilities are brought together and integrated. Zerto is aiming to take on traditional backup and the accompanying use cases with its data replication platform.
The longtime web and application hosting player has acquired web hosting assets owned by Ingram Micro to obtain expertise in the latter's recently launched CloudBlue automation platform, which Hostway plans to use to power its reseller hosting business.
The purchase of RelationEdge provides the managed IT services provider with a set of professional services around Salesforce, as well as a framework for building out new SaaS implementation and management practices.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and Managed Services survey wave was completed from January through April 2018. The survey represents approximately 750 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America and Europe. In addition to regular quarterly topics, the Q1 survey focuses on workloads and key projects and cloud deployment models, along with the pace of adoption and drivers for these models.
451 Research's Hosting, Cloud & Managed Services Market Monitor leverages our deep knowledge of and relationships within the cloud hosting & cloud managed services markets, resulting in a proprietary forecast based primarily on a bottom-up analysis of more than 1,500 providers' current revenue and growth expectations by segment through 2022. The world of IT procurement and operations has changed. More providers are offering broader portfolios of managed and unmanaged services and hosted applications and platforms, and most (if not all) infrastructure providers have absorbed some of the practical implications of cloud computing into their operations, fundamentally altering the mode of service delivery. The Hosting, Cloud & Managed Services Market Monitor was developed to more accurately track and forecast this evolving market.
The US business unit of European hosting provider LeaseWeb has picked up midsized hosting firm ServInt, adding to its US footprint and bringing it enablement capabilities for third-party public cloud.
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