William Fellows is a cofounder of The 451 Group. As VP of Research, he is responsible for the Cloud Transformation Channel at 451 Research. This Channel provides a point of intellectual convergence for 451 Research around cloud computing, in much the same way that the industry is converging on cloud from all points. In addition to keeping tabs on players entering the cloud and IT services space with disruptive business models, new technology and innovations in service delivery, William has also created 451 Research's Digital Economics unit. This is currently focused on helping end users, vendors and investors understand complex and confusing cloud pricing mechanisms in order to compare the cost of services (hosted, hybrid and on-premises), the cost of entry and price of participation in new markets.
William also created 451 Research's early adopter research program, working with enterprise end users and innovators. Currently focused on cloud computing, he has identified and tracked other early adopter markets, including grid computing and virtualization, since the company was formed in 2000. William also leads 451 Research's participation within the European Commission and numerous other EC research projects. William is a member of the EC Cloud Expert Group, coauthor of The Future of Cloud Computing? Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, and a regular speaker at industry and 451 conferences. He participates in numerous advisory boards and planning committees for UK and international industry bodies.
Cloud management platform supplier CloudBolt Software, based in North Bethesda, Maryland, is acquiring Norcross, Georgia-based codeless integration and VMware vRealize Automation specialist SovLabs. SovLabs could enable CloudBolt to leverage the opportunity presented by solving integration complexity across multi-service cloud deployments.
Service mesh deployment is seen as complex due to the number of moving parts and the scale it must achieve, but at a fundamental level, what users are doing is choosing a source and a destination, and putting configuration details on the pipe. In Solo.io's experience, Istio is especially complex. It has introduced an Istio Developer Portal to ease this process.
451 Research has announced the recipients of our Firestarter awards for the first quarter of 2020. Firestarter recipients are firms specifically recognized by 451 analysts for innovation and market disruption. The companies being recognized with 451 Firestarter awards this quarter are detailed here.
The company has announced a beta release of its EveryBridge cloud event bus hosted as a service on Google Kubernetes Engine. EveryBridge is the core product in the TriggerMesh Cloud Native Integration Platform; the company sees serverless as an integration problem to build cloud-native applications.
Huawei provided an update on its cloud-related business at the recent HAS 2020 summit in Shenzhen (and virtually). It says the impact of COVID-19 has been to accelerate demand for its Huawei Cloud services by a couple of years, compared with where it had expected the level of consumption to be at this time.
At Build 2020, Microsoft reiterated its hybrid cloud strategy for Azure, characterizing hybrid cloud as a 'durable state' and positing that highly regulated industries, latency-sensitive applications and the long-tail process of application modernization will necessitate hybrid deployments among enterprises.
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