As a research director, William Fellows is responsible for the Cloud Native channel of 451 Research, a technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. With a 20-plus strong team of collaborators, this channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for S&P Global Market Intelligence around all aspects of cloud-native computing. William has a long history of tracking cloud infrastructure, beginning with its foundational elements including distributed and grid computing and virtualization. He also established and ran 451 Research’s Cloud Transformation channel for more than a decade. He created the early adopter research program, working with enterprise end users and innovators, and he created 451’s Digital Economics Unit in 2014. In 2020, he formed the Cloud Native channel to focus on re-platforming to cloud-native constructs. William has been a member of the European Commission Cloud Expert Group, co-authored The Future of Cloud Computing Report and worked on various EC-funded cloud projects. Prior to founding 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2019), William was a financial and technology journalist with ComputerWire (now part of Informa) in London and New York. He has held various senior management roles since 1999. William has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Portsmouth, and a bachelor’s degree in government and sociology from Essex University.
The company believes its optimization platform eliminates the tradeoff between on-demand, reserved and spot instance pricing by migrating workloads to lower-cost instances, and only for the time they are being utilized. The company pitches an optimization platform to cut customers' cloud costs by 50% and address GPU scarcity.
The company's Tanzu Platform 10 is now generally available and is the first release of the single-SKU Tanzu Platform for self-managed, air-gapped environments. It is optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation-based private clouds and supports deployments in public cloud.
The vendor reported continued growth in 2024, with net income up 26% at $2.55 billion on revenue that increased 3.4% to $30.1 billion compared with 2023. A key metric is the progress of GreenLake, on which HPE has effectively bet the business.
The imperative of cloud financial management is underlined by the rapid adoption of FinOps best practices, including those championed by the FinOps Foundation. Barely out of the gate, the organization is reaching for the brass ring that will extend its remit from public cloud financial management to adjacent cost centers.
When it comes to development methodology, architecture, infrastructure or any other element of an IT ecosystem, the choices of IT decision-makers have large and long-lasting consequences for their organizations. Take five minutes to read five Voice of the Customer qualitative interview comments and what they mean.
VMware Cloud Foundation commands a strong market presence, and VMware continues to have the most robust ecosystem in the virtualization marketplace. The company's road map is now set, presenting it as the cloud alternative that could win more capacity from hyperscalers as organizations look to balance infrastructure scale and cost.
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