Melanie Posey is the Research Director for the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In addition to managing the research team, she focuses on analyzing the evolution of enterprise IT through the lens of cloud and the associated transformation of IT consumption and delivery models. Melanie also manages 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services offering.
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 MA in international relations/international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a division of Johns Hopkins University, an MA in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in French from Amherst College.
The hyperconvergence market pioneer used Nutanix .NEXT 2023 as an opportunity to rebrand itself as a hybrid and multicloud platform player and announced several key products. The move is not surprising given the immediate market opportunity for hybrid and multicloud environments, and the struggles experienced by organizations with legacy applications that are moving workloads to clouds.
The company continues to pivot its commercial model in favor of SaaS and subscription revenue. VMware remains committed to becoming a multicloud leader, simplifying its portfolio and beefing up its SaaS offerings while bringing partners, customers and internal teams along for the ride.
The pure-play AWS professional services and managed cloud services shop's recapitalization is intended to provide it with the resources to propel its growth and acquisition strategy. The 2018 startup has completed two acquisitions and is seeking others.
Despite inflation, higher energy prices and overall belt-tightening among enterprises, a majority of organizations intend to expand IaaS/PaaS public cloud spending, driven by new business and IT initiatives and cloud migration. Data from the Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Cloud Spending 2023 survey shows continued growth in enterprise spending on IaaS/PaaS public cloud, alongside trepidation with regard to macroeconomic conditions.
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