Owen Rogers is a Research Director of Cloud & Managed Services Transformation at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He also leads the firm's Digital Economics Unit, and is the architect of the Cloud Price Index, 451 Research's benchmark indicator of the costs of public, private and managed clouds. Owen is head of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies. In 2013, he completed his PhD thesis on the economics of cloud computing at the University of Bristol. Prior to this, he held product management positions in Cable&Wireless and Claranet. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the British Computer Society and a Certified Beekeeper. Owen was named 'Innovative Analyst of the Year' in the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations' global awards in 2018.
Hardware vendors are making their offerings more opex-based and consumption-billed to remain relevant in an increasingly hybrid and flexible landscape. Software and services are the focus of this strategic pivot.
The ability to drive innovation, business value and competitive differentiation is highly application-and data-centric and increasingly cloud-dependent. As we enter the third year of living with COVID-19, the accelerated march toward digital business and cloudified IT environments will only continue. Enterprises’ IT challenges in 2022 will center on serving ramped-up digital demand from front- and back-end business operations, as well as managing the complexity of increasingly interdependent multicloud IT environments.
Featuring the return of in-person attendance, it was the first re:Invent with CEO Adam Selipsky at the helm, and AWS ran its typical playbook: a handful of strategic initiatives and a slew of incremental improvements. Overarching themes included sustainability and partner relationships.
The secular transition to DevOps/CI/CD, cloud-to-ground IT architectures, and as-a-service consumption models are gathering momentum such that IT solutions including on-premises systems must be redesigned to better support cloud-native operations and end-to-end observability and automation. Edge-to-core innovations such as 5G, AI and quantum computing are set to power the next generation of UI and IoT devices.
At re:Invent, the company doubled down on its ambition to be a one-stop shop for pay-as-you-go compute, with new virtual machines, custom processors, hybrid cloud networking, private 5G and edge compute all on the agenda.
Eagle, a 127-qubit quantum processor, is the first transmon superconducting qubit system from IBM (or competitors) that reaches triple-digit qubit counts. This is a significant manufacturing milestone in the NISQ era – competitive superconducting systems have not approached this number, and competing ion trap systems are measured in tens of qubits.
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