Nicole Henderson is a Research Analyst on the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her research examines managed services for public cloud, alternative public clouds and hosted private cloud infrastructure.
Prior to 451 Research, Nicole was Content Director at Informa's ITPro Today, a source of news and analysis for IT professionals and technology stakeholders. In this role, she ran the site's coverage on cloud computing, where she was responsible for writing, editing staff contributions, and research. She produced reports on cloud topics such as cloud management platforms and cloud-native technology. Previously, she was Editor at Talkin' Cloud where she managed a team of freelancers that covered the emerging cloud services channel. She led the site's annual Talkin' Cloud 100 ranking and research report, and later oversaw the site's transition to Channel Futures. She started her career as an Industry Analyst at the Web Host Industry Review (WHIR).
She has a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.
Among enterprises, cloud remains the most transformational technology, playing a key role in enabling emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and IoT. It is transitioning from being a stand-alone IT initiative to more of a foundational element of further IT initiatives.
The company's Pax8 Pro adds premium features to its core platform, enabling MSPs to modernize business operations with automation and SaaS lifecycle management and MSP partners to manage their client ecosystem. Pax8 raised $96m in equity capital, acquired Wirehive, launched Pax8 UK and added new vendors to its platform and marketplace.
At its recent analyst event, the vendor shared its vision of supporting channel partners with an approach that better represents the fading distinctions between partner types and shifts the focus of partner engagement to customer use cases.
With DFS, the vendor is aiming to drive engagement with customers via services that help them achieve infrastructure enhancements, modernize business software and applications, and leverage AI to meet business outcomes around customer experience and IT reliability.
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.
In the two years since its spinoff from Cogeco, Aptum has shifted its business and is building out its professional services capabilities. The company is eyeing more public cloud competencies and investing further in compliance to attract customers across the digital transformation spectrum.
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