2024 Trends in Cloud & Managed Services Transformation
Biography
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.
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Recent Research from Melanie Posey
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2024 Trends in Cloud Native
The flywheels of Kubernetes, containers, observability, service mesh and serverless are in motion, with the goal of delivering momentum to the main event: putting cloud native into production. Day 2 challenges are being addressed by the commercial and community sectors, while FinOps and optimization are coming on stream to provide governance. With most organizations now using cloud native, the emphasis in 2024 will be on delivering enterprise-grade services.
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Rackspace looks to put the 'hybrid' back into hybrid/multicloud
The vendor recently elucidated its vision for turning its business around via a more focused approach based on three foundational pillars. In the past year, Rackspace has consolidated its operating model into two divisions, appointed a new CEO, pivoted toward a multicloud value proposition, and reasserted its commitment to private/hybrid cloud.
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Application Modernization: Painful but Worth It
Our third annual survey of how IT decision-makers are adapting their applications in the cloud era shows that spending on modernization continues to grow despite economic uncertainty. The maxim that “you have to spend money to make money” comes into play, as most organizations are finding that the benefits of modernization (including better customer experience and more efficient development workflows) outweigh the costs (financial and otherwise).
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Enterprises Continue To Deploy Across a Variety of Platforms as They Shift Toward Cloud
The increasingly complex mix of venues for deploying enterprise workloads means more to consider for businesses seeking to make optimal choices for IT operations. As they navigate the spectrum of environments stretching from core datacenters to public cloud and edge, enterprises are not narrowing their focus on migrating toward specific venues, but are embracing a variety of platforms and concurrent strategies.
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Oracle takes its own medicine to fortify cloud infrastructure and AI offerings
The vendor is pushing the boundaries of what Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can do by running its full software portfolio on the platform. Given its unique position as a keeper of enterprise data, Oracle is also creating scaffolding so customers don't have to go far to get value out of that data.
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