Jean Atelsek is a senior research analyst working across the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation channel and digital economics unit of 451 Research, a technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. She covers vendors and technologies that manage or optimize public and private cloud total cost of operations, performance or consumption. This includes FinOps products, platforms and providers that help organizations forecast, analyze and optimize cloud spending based on data collected from the IT environment. In the cloud-native universe, Jean focuses on container-native software and platforms, serverless architectures, service mesh, and the converging worlds of observability, runtime policy enforcement and application networking. She also covers technology accelerators for application modernization, including the application of natural language processing and generative AI to effect code translation. As a maintainer of the quarterly Cloud Price Index, Jean tracks benchmark pricing for a selection of infrastructure and managed services around the world. With data collected from millions of hyperscaler SKUs, she looks at trends in pricing, service additions and regional expansion plans for the major public cloud providers. Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Jean worked at Omdia in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
The ability of Kubernetes to combine processing power from multiple physical hosts into massive compute clusters is just one reason for its popularity as an engine for LLM training. Other themes at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe included the growing adoption of platform engineering, the evolution of open-source licensing and the impact of recent changes to the VMware portfolio.
This report examines how enterprise adoption of cloud-native technologies and practices is affecting operational efficiency, cost, resilience and development practices. The value of cloud-native technologies and processes ultimately depends on their ability to support organizations' overall transformation efforts that encompass development, migration and modernization.
FinOps provides technologies and practices that address cloud consumption monitoring and budget accountability. The FinOps framework and cultural practice create greater visibility into cloud usage and costs efficiencies that maximize business value, foster cross-functional team collaboration, and use fact-based data for stakeholders to streamline cost management and optimization of cloud environments, improve the bottom line, and make efficient IT investments.
FinOps provides technologies and practices that address cloud consumption monitoring and budget accountability. The FinOps framework and cultural practice create greater visibility into cloud usage and costs efficiencies that maximize business value, foster cross-functional team collaboration, and use fact-based data for stakeholders to streamline cost management and optimization of cloud environments, improve the bottom line, and make efficient IT investments.
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud continue opening and announcing new public cloud regions, but at a slower pace than before. Much of the companies' capex appears earmarked for AI-related infrastructure in existing locations rather than breaking new ground.
Since closing its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has shaken up the status quo to ensure that VCF retains its leadership as a platform for building and operating private clouds. The resulting dislocation for smaller customers and partners has caused competitors to pounce.
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