Melanie Posey is the Research Vice President and General Manager for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation offering. She focuses on tracking, analyzing and anticipating the pace and nature of enterprise cloud adoption.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Melanie spent more than 15 years at IDC in a variety of roles, providing analysis, forecasting and insight for the cloud, hosting, datacenter, managed services and telecommunications markets. At IDC, Melanie received numerous awards for research, collaboration, sales support and client service, including being named runner-up for the prestigious James Peacock Memorial Award.
During her more than 20-year career in the technology research and consulting arena, Melanie has been quoted extensively in the business and technology trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry and client events.
Melanie holds an M.A. in international relations/international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a division of Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in French from Amherst College.
Big Blue unveiled the initial class of ecosystem partners for the IBM Financial Services-ready Public Cloud, introduced in November 2019, underscoring the vendor's commitment to enterprise-grade clouds, and its ambition to facilitate industry transformation.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors. The Workloads & Key Projects study was completed during the months of January and February 2020 and represents approximately 500 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors. The Workloads & Key Projects study was completed during the months of January and February 2020 and represents approximately 500 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers.
Cloud concerns are being blown away by COVID-19 if the businesses of the major hyperscalers are anything to go by. We expect that over the longer term, an increased demand for cloud-based resources and a greater emphasis on IT transformation is likely.
As organizations look to cloud environments as a regular destination for existing or new workloads, security teams have been working to more thoroughly understand the threat environment and address issues that arise. Many vendors have been upgrading their capabilities, which is precisely what Rapid7 is looking to do by reaching for DivvyCloud.
This Voice of the Enterprise: Digital Pulse Budgets & Outlook survey wave was conducted from September through November 2019. The survey represents approximately 590 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers. Delivered quarterly, this research provides comprehensive, survey-driven analyst reports with customizable data deliverables.
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