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.
Despite inflation, higher energy prices and overall belt-tightening among enterprises, spending on IaaS/PaaS public cloud continues to expand, driven by new business and IT initiatives and cloud migration. However, organizations report that ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty could put the brakes on the magnitude of public cloud spending growth.
The Asia-Pacific Technology Adoption Index is a survey of technology adoption trends, purchasing authority, key technologies and vendors across Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
Despite inflation and belt-tightening among enterprises, IT decision-makers are moving ahead with application modernization plans. As organizations become more mature in their use of cloud and take better advantage of new services and architectures, the benefits of updating legacy applications start to outweigh the risks.
AWS re:Invent 2022 made a full-throttle comeback in Las Vegas. There were no "big bang" announcements, but important thematic developments permeated the event, including a renewed focus on partnerships and collaborative innovation, "working backwards" from customers' business problems, and a continued emphasis on sustainability.
Data from 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Vendor Selection 2022 survey shows that, as organizations mature in their use of IaaS/PaaS public cloud services, the factors they use for vendor evaluation take a practical, operational turn.
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