Allan Krans, Cloud Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

About Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Cloud Practice Manager Allan Krans leads TBR’s coverage of the technologies and business models at play across the cloud computing landscape. TBR’s coverage of cloud includes a holistic perspective on all types of cloud delivery (public, private and hybrid) and the opportunities surrounding both delivering and enabling cloud services for customers. Allan’s background includes analyzing the business model of leading IT providers such as Microsoft, EMC and IBM for more than 10 years. He uses that experience to guide TBR’s cloud research agenda. In addition to leading TBR’s syndicated cloud research, Allan engages with clients on custom projects to identify, align and capture opportunities presented by customer migration to cloud computing services. Allan frequently presents at client and industry events, and is quoted in industry publications such as The Boston Globe, eWEEK, Investor’s Business Daily and BusinessWeek.

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Russian aggression will not dampen pandemic-driven cloud demand

03.23.22/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

We expect cloud vendors to experience limited financial and operational disruption as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Most cloud and software vendors generate a small percentage of their revenue from the two countries combined and maintain limited direct investment, partly due to Russian business regulations. The larger potential impact, in terms of the cloud market, is a slowdown in adoption and investment. The effects of the invasion on the global economy, COVID-19 recovery, and energy markets are all still uncertain.

Conversion, integration and ecosystems drive SaaS growth

02.07.22/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Applications serve as the vessel for cloud’s business value Value, in the form of agility, innovation and efficiency, is now the driving force behind customers’ cloud investments. Applications, in the form of SaaS, are the purest vessel for customers to implement and achieve the value they so desperately want in order to improve their businesses. […]

2022 Predictions: Cloud

01.20.22/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Join Practice Manager and Principal Analyst Allan Krans, Senior Analyst Catie Merrill and Senior Analyst Evan Woollacott Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST for an in-depth, exclusive review of TBR’s three 2022 Predictions special reports on the cloud market — Cloud Partnerships, Cloud Applications and Cloud Infrastructure & Platforms — each […]

Top 3 Predictions for Cloud Partnerships in 2022

12.01.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Cloud partnerships go from important to critical in 2022 Ecosystems will become even more tailored to the attributes of cloud in 2022 The shift to partner-led growth is not a new trend, but we expect it to be further legitimized in 2022. Growth from indirect, partner-led revenue streams have been outpacing direct go-to-market efforts for […]

With Nuance, Microsoft buys into healthcare and more

04.13.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Microsoft announced its second largest acquisition in company history on April 12 with its intent to purchase Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion. Nuance’s presence in the healthcare vertical was touted as driving the move, but TBR believes much deeper and broader strategies were behind Microsoft’s decision. Buying Nuance gives Microsoft an opportunity, but not a […]

COVID-19 will fade, but cloud reliance will remain

04.05.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Cloud has been the cure for many pandemic-related business ailments The COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging effects forced businesses to adjust in 2020 and now into 2021, but these changes will persist much longer than the pandemic. Most businesses made a wide range of changes to their IT strategies over the past year, but there […]

Aiven’s managed services capabilities bring the best of open-source data technologies to multicloud enterprises

03.29.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

With a core portfolio of platform services, Aiven meets the needs of developers, partners and the cloud-native enterprise Aiven was founded in 2016 by a team of open-source and cloud experts based in Helsinki who sought to develop a data management platform that capitalizes on the needs of more mature customers who are increasingly […]

mimik pioneers a unique hybrid edge cloud solution that empowers the localized autonomy of devices

03.23.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

The journey to capitalize on the edge is rooted in deep telco experience, coupled with a passion for breaking boundaries A brief history lesson is important to understand how mimik came to be. It was during her tenure as CEO of Vodafone xone that mimik CEO and founder Fay Arjomandi realized the growing importance of […]

Partnership with Palantir further unlocks IBM’s AI value

02.12.21/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Since Arvind Krishna took the helm as CEO in April, IBM has engaged in a series of acquisitions and partnerships to support its transformative shift to fully embrace an open hybrid cloud strategy. The company is further solidifying the strategy with the announcement that IBM and Palantir are coming together in a partnership that combines […]

2021 will bring more demand, more partnerships, more industry innovation to cloud

12.10.20/by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Certain uncertainty will accelerate cloud adoption in 2021 Despite living with the COVID-19 pandemic for most of 2020, so much remains uncertain. The timing and impact of a vaccine, whether or not there is additional government stimulus, and the changing economic environment will all have a profound impact on what occurs in 2021, and those […]