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.
Orange operates as an IT and integration company as well as a global carrier, but these days refers to itself as a 'network native' digital services company. It has one core business (global network) and what it describes as four growth drivers: digital and data; smart mobility solutions (including IoT); cloud; and cyber defense.
451 Research's Cloud Native Competitive Landscape provides an overview of the cloud-native market, including the definition, current state of play, COVID-19 impact and competitive landscape (457 vendors included) within each of the 10 cloud-native segments under coverage.
To accelerate its cloud migration opportunity around the re-platforming to cloud and cloud native, Tech Mahindra has created a cloud-native Center of Excellence to coordinate resources from across its portfolio, and recently introduced version 3.0 of its mPAC cloud management platform for enterprises.
The decision of whether " and if so, how " to modernize legacy mission-critical applications is perhaps the most fraught for IT leaders. Recent data from 451 Research suggests that some clarity is beginning to emerge.
If there had been any doubt, COVID-19 has now confirmed that 'cloud first' has become a business mandate. NetApp recognized the importance of the cloud early on, and aligned itself with the hyperscalers accordingly. Its two key goals for 2021 are to return to growth in its core storage software and systems, and to lead in cloud data services.
Although it is already a managed public cloud services supplier, the current turn of the corporate development wheel sees T-Systems gradually moving up the stack so that by 2022, it expects to have become a vendor-agnostic, multi-platform and hybrid cloud provider, supporting everything from IaaS to the application.
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