Speakers

Archana Venkatraman
Research Director, CloudOps,
Archana Venkatraman
Archana Venkatraman leads IDC’s European CloudOps and Governance research as well as Cloud Data Management research. As part of the CloudOps focus, Archana analyses the multicloud management and operations market, Cloud economics and FinOps, observability, cloud consolidation, as well as cloud governance and control. A big focus of her research is on cloud value realization, cloud-native success, and operational excellence. As part of Archana’s Cloud Data Management research, she focuses on multicloud data management, data protection and availability, archiving, regulatory compliance, software-defined and object storage, modern data management, container data services, cloud data mobility, and SaaS data governance. Before joining IDC, Venkatraman was the datacenter editor at Computer Weekly, the digital magazine and website for IT professionals based in London