As Research Director, William is responsible for the Cloud Native Channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. With a 20+ strong team of collaborators, this Channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for 451 Research around cloud native computing and offers customers a direct path to understand its adoption and impact across all sectors.
William has a long history of tracking cloud infrastructure, beginning with its foundational elements such as distributed and grid computing and virtualization, establishing and running 451's Cloud Transformation Channel for more than a decade. He created 451 Research's early adopter research program, working with enterprise end users and innovators, and he created 451's Digital Economics Unit in 2014 and the Blockchain Center of Excellence in 2017. In 2020 he formed the Cloud Native Channel to focus on the re-platforming to cloud native constructs and such as containers, service mesh, Kubernetes and serverless, from application and infrastructure perspectives. 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 starting 451 Research, 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 at 451 Research since 1999. William has a master's degree in computing science from the University of Portsmouth, and a BA in Government and Sociology from Essex University.
The company is building a general-purpose programming language specifically for serverless cloud execution that underpins a PaaS offering it will sell as a secure, low-cost, highly scalable and easy-to-use alternative to current proprietary environments.
Since we last spoke with Banzai Cloud, it has built out a stack of cloud-native services on top of Pipeline, the Kubernetes deployment automation and execution engine that is the heart of its platform. Its mission remains building hybrid cloud, exploiting the promise and power of Kubernetes.
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 is extending its Managed Kubernetes proposition and focusing on the management of edge locations as a primary use case. It has organized its go-to-market efforts to support edge infrastructure automation, multicloud orchestration and application delivery to distributed infrastructure.
The company is setting itself up as a provider-agnostic companion for enterprise customers eager to reap the benefits of public cloud. The refurbishment of its portfolio to support multiple public clouds and Kubernetes shows VMware's determination to remain a dominant force, as infrastructure and VMs are supplanted by applications as the locus of IT operations.
Single-page applications are becoming one of the most common cloud-native application architectures. Referred to as JAMstack, the architecture was pioneered by Netlify. It's a relatively new form of abstraction that renders the back-end infrastructure increasingly invisible, and shifts focus to the front end.
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