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 cloud cost management and optimization sector is growing wildly as deployments scale. Innovations in Kubernetes, cost observability, machine-learning-driven cost/performance tuning and demand planning are making their way into products and services targeted at DevOps, platform and finance teams.
The motions now playing out in the SAP ecosystem are creating additional complexity, which plays directly to Avantra's expertise in automation. It has delivered a full-service automation engine and acquired AI and ML technology from FogLogic to enable its new positioning as next-generation AIOps and observability (for SAP).
In their quarterly earnings calls, hyperscaler parent companies Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet touted their AI credentials and plans to invest ahead of an expected market shift. Optimization prevailed, with the companies taking their own medicine to keep spending in line with revenue growth.
With a revamped leadership team, the company believes it is well positioned to deliver the automation and cost management that customers seek. Can CloudBolt also continue to innovate as new requirements for optimization emerge, and thus remain relevant to modern cloud-native enterprises?
The pure-play AWS professional services and managed cloud services shop's recapitalization is intended to provide it with the resources to propel its growth and acquisition strategy. The 2018 startup has completed two acquisitions and is seeking others.
The FinOps Foundation promotes collaboration between engineering, finance and business teams for managing IT costs. It recently provided an update on its cloud FinOps activities, including a project to develop specifications for cloud billing data that works across multiple clouds.
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