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.
At its first virtual VMworld, VMware touted its role as a unifying layer for today's multicloud world and announced enhancements to VMware Cloud Director and new offering VMware Cloud Partner Navigator " a unified partner platform that simplifies support for customers' multicloud deployments.
The company's recent analyst day surfaced the progress it is making in the enterprise, at the edge in IoT, and in support of cloud native development. However, it was the continued momentum of its business overall toward its stated goals, and in particular the growing contribution of its channel, which framed the outlook.
The company recently overhauled its hosted private cloud product line aiming to move upmarket with upgraded hardware and networking, software and feature enhancements, and higher performance. OVHcloud US says it sees growing demand for hosted private cloud services.
The company is expanding its managed services for VMware Cloud to give Rackspace customers more cloud deployment options and enable enterprises to build, run, and manage cluster- and VM-based workloads from a unified control plane.
IBM and Schlumberger have collaborated to make the DELFI Exploration and Production software suite available on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The collaboration allows both Schlumberger and IBM to expand into previously inaccessible markets.
The company announced several enhancements to its migration offerings at Microsoft Ignite 2020, including agentless software inventory and dependency mapping to support comprehensive discovery and assessment, and capabilities that aim to make Linux-to-Azure migration easier.
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