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 has extended the reach of its financial services ecosystem, bringing on BNP Paribas as an anchor client in Europe while launching additional features aimed at highly regulated workloads in the cloud.
451 Research's Cloud Native Competitive Landscape provides an overview of the cloud-native market, including the definition, current state of play, COVID-19 impact and competitive landscape (457 vendors included) within each of the 10 cloud-native segments under coverage.
The decision of whether " and if so, how " to modernize legacy mission-critical applications is perhaps the most fraught for IT leaders. Recent data from 451 Research suggests that some clarity is beginning to emerge.
This Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Workloads & Key Projects survey wave was conducted during Q1 2020. The survey represents approximately 500 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers. Delivered quarterly, this research provides comprehensive, survey-driven analyst reports with customizable data deliverables.
Building on the momentum of its OCI platform, the vendor has announced two new on-premises extensions of OCI that use the same second-generation architecture and hardware as its public cloud. First launched in 2017, Cloud@Customer consists of fully managed hardware appliances that can be added to incrementally.
Nearly 75% of organizations developing software in-house are using cloud-native frameworks and tools for some of this internal application development. A recent 451 Research survey shows that certain workloads are more likely to get the cloud-native treatment than others and how the timing of the cloud-native journey has a lot to do with organizations' levels of cloud maturity.
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