As Research Director, Owen Rogers leads the firm's Digital Economics Unit, which serves to help customers understand the economics behind digital and cloud technologies so they can make informed choices when costing and pricing their own products and services, as well as those from their vendors, suppliers and competitors. Owen is the architect of the Cloud Price Index, 451 Research's benchmark indicator of the costs of public, private and managed clouds, and the Cloud Price Codex, our global survey of cloud pricing methods and mechanisms. Owen has previously held product management positions at Cable & Wireless and Claranet, and has developed a number of hosting and cloud services. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the British Computer Society and a member of the Royal Economic Society. In 2013, he completed his PhD thesis on the economics of cloud computing at the University of Bristol.
Having committed to expanding its cloud offerings globally where partners are not available, Huawei will begin selling cloud services under its own brand from its own datacenters in Russia this year. And as it seeks to become one of the top five clouds globally, it plans to begin selling elsewhere in Europe in 2019 or 2020.
The past year in cloud economics has been unprecedented. Price cuts (and increases) still take place but are introduced with far less fanfare than before. New models and economically beneficial features are where providers are hoping to gain credibility and wallet share. But this battleground is temporary.
The company is investing heavily in hybrid IT, with HPE OneSphere playing a key role. With access to capability from its Cloud Cruiser and Cloud Technology Partners acquisitions, plus IP and partners from its Cloud28+ engine, OneSphere has potential.
All open source projects are at risk. The fact that there are so many open source successes, such as Linux, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and OpenStack, shows that tragedies can be avoided and a cornucopia of benefits can be realized.
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