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.
Building on the foundation of an all-purpose public cloud service and multicloud gateway, HPE GreenLake will add high-performance computing services to its portfolio, based on HPE Apollo systems that run Nvidia GPUs in dense configurations. HPE also plans to add Cray computing systems into its HPC services.
COVID-19's unpredictability and the cloud's ability to scale without reservation has made cloud a critical technology in 2020. The flexibility it enables has supported homeworking, online entertainment and schooling, videoconferencing and the ability for companies to reinvent themselves. In 2021, COVID-19 will continue to act as a catalyst for cloud adoption, and enterprises will demand technologies and services that support adoption.
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. This survey fielded from July 9 to August 29, 2020. Delivered quarterly, this research provides comprehensive, survey-driven analyst reports with customizable data deliverables.
Access to the skills needed to facilitate smooth journeys to the cloud remains an issue. Our VotE: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Organizational Dynamics 2020 survey reveals that the acquisition of expertise to build, manage, secure and innovate in cloud environments is still a work in progress.
Enterprises willing to make large cloud commitments can negotiate with providers for discounts. These directly negotiated discounts are relatively small, but when layered on top of broadly available discounting plans such as reserved instances, these savings are but still worth having. They're icing on the cake, if you will.
The whys and wherefores of IaaS/PaaS public cloud adoption are widely known. But what do organizations care about when it comes to selecting a public cloud provider?
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