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's Microsoft Business Unit is designed specifically to address the requirements of a customer's cloud transformation journey. HCL is the only systems integration partner with a physical location on Microsoft's campus and brings forward a partnership of 30+ years, with an initiative that has the singular aim of modernization.
Atos pivoted in 2020 by adopting a sector-led approach to customers, redesigning its go-to-market strategy and expanding and industrializing its offerings portfolio. This new approach addresses six vertical sectors and prioritizes cloud. With its OneCloud initiative, Atos is creating what it believes is a one-stop shop for cloud transformation.
The AWS Partner keynote was second only to CEO Andy Jassy's in the 2020 virtual re:Invent program, suggesting how important the AWS Partner Network ecosystem is to AWS's future. It has added new services aimed at accelerating and deepening customer and partner engagements and taking the friction out of deploying and operating partner services.
CNCF has established a cloud-native network function (CNF) working group to define and test for what 'cloud native' means in telecommunications. It will provide an open source CNF test suite that will demonstrate the extent to which cloud-native best practices are implemented, for both open and closed source CNFs.
Telefnica refocused its business on key geographic markets, created Telefnica Tech and Telefnica Infra and took other operational actions that collectively redefined the company's corporate center. It has reported good progress and is now doubling down on professional and managed services, cloud and integrator partnerships.
The company's ninth annual re:Invent conference was the first to be entirely virtual, drawing more than 400,000 registrations for the three-week program. This report focuses on some of the significant core cloud developments from week one.
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