>Melanie Posey is a research director at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons. She leads the Cloud & Managed Services Transformation team and manages the Voice of the Enterprise cloud survey. Her current research focus is the impact of the cloud operating model on the IT industry, including the changing dynamics of enterprise IT, vendor and service provider strategies, and the ways cloud has evolved into a platform for digital innovation, transformation and implementation of emerging technologies. Melanie has a long history as a technology industry analyst. In 2016, she joined 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global in 2019), bringing experience in strategy analysis, forecasting and enterprise/consumer insight for the cloud, hosting, IT services and telecommunications markets. Throughout her career, Melanie has been a go-to commentator for the business and technology trade press and is a frequent speaker at industry and client events. She holds a master’s degree in international relations/international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, a division of Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a bachelor’s degree in French from Amherst College.
We are still in the early days when it comes to the cost impact of AI, and current spending seems to be a small fraction of what is to come. Analysts Jean Atelsek and Melanie Posey return to the podcast to discuss what they heard at the FinOps X conference with host Eric Hanselman.
The risks to European digital sovereignty are real, but they are broader and more structural than just cloud infrastructure or the kill-switch framing. This second spotlight on Europe's digital dependency identifies seven major risks.
At Dell Technologies World 2026, the company made the case for private on-premises infrastructure as the foundation for enterprise and sovereign AI execution, highlighting rapid AI Factory growth against supply chain headwinds.
At its recent customer event, the vendor described sovereignty as an operational control issue addressable by open-source technologies. Together with service-provider and systems integrator partners, Red Hat is seeking to position its open hybrid cloud stack as the infrastructure of choice for sovereign cloud and AI service providers globally.
Public cloud spending continues to climb, as does the challenge of tracking and managing costs, with AI experimentation and adoption greatly compounding the challenge. This report analyzes the findings of our FinOps 2026 survey on the evolution of the FinOps discipline among enterprise buyers in the age of agentic AI.
Data from our Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services and Cloud Native, FinOps 2026 survey reveals organizations' continued struggle to keep public cloud spending in line with allocated budgets, with generative AI emerging as the primary culprit. As inference and agentic workloads roll into production, structured approaches to FinOps become more important than ever.
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