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 was spun off of To The New, and delivers cloud cost optimization to some 350 global SMBs and startups using pricing arbitrage and volume discounts. CloudKeeper believes it is already the leading cloud cost-optimization provider in India, and is aiming to be among the top five global supplier within three years.
Many IT professionals believe DevOps is dead and platform engineering is the future. However, just as DevOps displaced agile methodology 15 years ago, yet agility continues to be a priority focus in enterprise IT, DevOps will live on as the construct for collaboration across teams that are not necessarily accustomed to working together.
The vendor's cloudification is accelerating with live testing of its Global Fabric network-as-a-service, ongoing cloud-native modernization of its network and IT estate into a set of consistent platforms and delivery of the cloud connectivity, security and AI services which it enables.
The company's recently introduced FlexCore private cloud service is designed to bring the experience and functionality of a public cloud into a private cloud environment, and is positioned as a VMware alternative, or Alt-V. Its "sovereign" AI assistant is tapping perceived momentum among businesses seeking tools and services that allow them to retain control over their data.
Big Blue says customers are beginning to transition from AI experimentation to scaling applications across the organization (as the company is doing itself). Most of the activity has been focused on serving internal use cases such as HR, CRM and contact centers.
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