Paul has had a 40-year career in industry that started in logistics with a variety of operational management roles. For the last 33 years he has worked in the IT industry, mostly in sales and marketing, covering everything from mainframes to personal computers, development tools to specific industry applications, IT services and outsourcing. In the last few years he has been a keen commentator and analyst of the data centre and cloud world. Until recently he was also a non-executive director in an NHS Clinical Commissioning Group.
Paul has a deep knowledge and understanding about the IT services market and is particularly interested in the impact of Cloud, Software Defined infrastructure, OpenStack, the Open Compute Project and new data centre models on both business users and IT vendors. His mix of business and IT experience, allied to a passionate belief in customer focus and “grown-up” marketing, has given him a particular capability in understanding and articulating the business benefits of technology. This enables him to advise businesses on the impact and benefits of particular technologies and services, and to help IT vendors position and promote their offerings more effectively.
Paul’s Expertise
- Strategic and Product Marketing
- IT Modernisation
- Hybrid and Multi-cloud Performance Management
Sector Specialisms
- Information Technology
- Health and Wellbeing (NHS)
- Logistics and Supply Chain
Research from Paul Bevan
- Governance and risk post CrowdStrike on 8th August, 2024
- Leveraging Data Management Partnerships for Enhanced Supply Chain Solutions with InterSystems Supply Chain Orchestrator on 24th June, 2024
- Viavi Observer Platform on 21st June, 2024
- Cybersecurity in the cloud on 19th June, 2024
- The importance of assuring the digital experience in delivering business services on 6th March, 2024
- IOTech: Quietly enabling IoT to realise its potential on 23rd November, 2023
- State of the Cloud YouTube Series on 6th November, 2023
- Optimising supply chains in an unpredictable world with InterSystems Supply Chain Orchestrator on 27th October, 2023
- Get used to a complex hybrid cloud environment on 26th October, 2023
- Deeper and wider on 15th September, 2023
- BigPanda’s use of Generative AI points the way to autonomous IT operations on 11th September, 2023
- Overcoming Data Challenges for Innovation in Financial Services through 360-degree Business Solutions from InterSystems on 1st September, 2023
- Wing Cloud – abstracting away DevOps complexity on 29th August, 2023
- Changed data processing requirements are driving a need for new hardware architectures on 23rd August, 2023
- BigPanda announces Generative AI capabilities on 2nd August, 2023
- The goal of software testing in healthcare on 9th June, 2023
- Cisco Live announcements on 7th June, 2023
- The week I stopped avoiding the Q question on 2nd June, 2023
- When is cloud genuinely a cloud? on 1st June, 2023
- Interlink Software update on 24th May, 2023
- Packets are back in fashion on 12th May, 2023
- Data Preparation Challenges in Healthcare and Voracity from IRI on 28th March, 2023
- Data Preparation Challenges in the Telecommunications Industry and Voracity from IRI on 20th March, 2023
- Observability on 1st March, 2023
- Virtana shows a renewed sense of focus on 20th February, 2023
- Sunlight takes distributed Cloud to the far Edge on 16th February, 2023
- Just take one glass of water every 10 hours on 15th February, 2023
- IBM AIOps on 30th January, 2023
- Cisco helps customers understand risks of a poor digital user experience on 6th January, 2023
- eG Innovations gets Observability on 3rd January, 2023
- Spirent demonstrates that “More for less, faster” is achievable on 20th December, 2022
- Financial Trading Technology and RUMI from N5 on 9th December, 2022
- Cloud Networking Matters on 5th December, 2022
- BigPanda doubles-down on core AIOps functions on 23rd November, 2022
- Storage Performance is Critical for High Performance Computing on 27th October, 2022
- What is a Vertical Cloud… and Why Should You Care? on 14th October, 2022
- Edge Computing on 25th August, 2022
- IoT Platform technology to thwart supermarket self scan thefts on 26th July, 2022
- AIOps: Snake oil or the real deal? on 14th July, 2022
- Cloud is easy. Cloud is hard. on 1st July, 2022
- Monitoring and Managing Unified Comms (UC) for the Branch of One on 26th May, 2022
- Mutable Business is not a Digital Transformation Project on 13th May, 2022
- What is Edge Cloud? on 5th May, 2022
- Transforming customer journeys in the digital age on 27th January, 2022
- SARI..BE on 3rd December, 2021
- Hybrid Network Performance Assurance on 23rd November, 2021
- Park Place Technologies on 9th November, 2021
- eG Enterprise V7 on 4th November, 2021
- Virtana strengthens its position in Cloud Cost Optimisation on 3rd November, 2021
- Don’t smirk. Your business could be next on 7th October, 2021
- End-to-end visibility on 8th September, 2021
- The Criticality of the Network in the Future of Business on 3rd September, 2021
- Why Edge Computing and why now? on 23rd August, 2021
- Protected: The Bloor Cloud Trail on 13th April, 2021
- Hybrid IT Infrastructure Management Market Vendor Landscape on 7th April, 2021
- Automation Excellence on 31st March, 2021
- Now that is what I call a wide area network on 29th March, 2021
- Moving to a hybrid multi-cloud platform on 4th March, 2021
- Why AIOps is like an angry teenager on 22nd January, 2021
- Significant changes in the Hybrid Infrastructure Management market on 11th December, 2020
- Virtana Platform: Unified hybrid cloud optimization platform on 2nd December, 2020
- Event Correlation and Automation on 20th October, 2020
- The critical role of IT Asset Management on 2nd September, 2020
- Oracle Cloud on 26th August, 2020
- Cisco moves to cover a Network Gap on 4th June, 2020
- Edge Network Interconnection Platforms on 29th April, 2020
- Not all IT monitoring and management solutions are born equal on 27th April, 2020
- Services are a must in today’s complex hybrid IT world on 3rd April, 2020
- How agile and resilient are your systems? on 19th March, 2020
- VirtualWisdom 6.0: Hybrid Infrastructure Management on 1st March, 2020
- Hybrid Infrastructure Management on 1st March, 2020
- Monitoring and managing the performance of complex hybrid IT infrastructure environments on 1st March, 2020
- Park Place Technologies – A real “out of left-field approach” to AIOps on 14th February, 2020
- A Simple and Elegant Solution on 10th February, 2020
- Cloud first is not necessarily best on 7th February, 2020
- Businesses need help to understand the requirements of an IoT project on 18th December, 2019
- Now you can have lower costs and higher availability in Edge deployments on 11th December, 2019
- Towards effective digital experience management on 9th December, 2019
- Thousand Eyes lifts lid on the black-box of cloud and internet connectivity on 15th November, 2019
- I just walked into a lamp post…why didn’t you warn me?! on 29th October, 2019
- Canonical. Cloud developers’ darling aiming at the Enterprise on 24th September, 2019
- Taking AI and HPC out of the Laboratory on 30th August, 2019
- Another AIOps vendor gets snapped up on 23rd August, 2019
- Virtual Instruments buys Metricly to expand cloud performance monitoring capability on 19th August, 2019
- Dynatrace float demonstrates AIOps is hot at the moment on 12th August, 2019
- Scale Computing: designed for SMEs, but perfect for the Edge computing market on 31st July, 2019
- Logicalis take pragmatic, business oriented approach to IoT on 11th July, 2019
- Megaport show that complex cloud interconnectivity needn’t be complicated on 31st May, 2019
- ArchOps: Removing the risk for the Board of those ‘Big Throw’ IT investment decisions on 12th April, 2019
- European Cloud Leader OVH: very different … in a very good way (Part 2) on 8th April, 2019
- European Cloud Leader OVH: very different … in a very good way (Part 1) on 21st February, 2019
- Summon up your inner Bletchley Park on 8th November, 2018
- Big Software’s Big Trick on 22nd October, 2018
- Big Software and the 4th Industrial Revolution on 27th September, 2018
- Moving towards a defined reference architecture for Edge Computing on 16th August, 2018
- IB(No)M on 30th July, 2018
- 5G, IoT and Edge Computing on 13th July, 2018
- Big Software on 13th July, 2018
- 3 IT infrastructure enablers for Industry 4.0 on 16th May, 2018
- The new reality for government on 9th April, 2018
- Worlds Apart on 26th March, 2018
- IoT, Machine Learning and OCP: the next level of data centre energy efficiency on 6th March, 2018
- Instrumenting the Virtualised Datacentre … for Performance SLA’s on 6th February, 2018
- Are you ready to be a Mutable Business in 2018? on 2nd January, 2018
- Equinix enables mutable global digital supply chains on 5th December, 2017
- OVH – Flying the flag for a European Cloud on 20th October, 2017
- Opportunities for data centre operators in 2017 on 14th July, 2017
- Primetime for Cloud and DevOps on 14th July, 2017
- Talent Management: a key tuning exercise in enhancing your data centre sales capabilities on 14th July, 2017
- Profits delayed: straddling the powerhouse to utility business model spectrum on 14th July, 2017
- Has the Open Compute Project Come of Age? on 14th July, 2017
- Ask not what will IoT do for my data centre… on 14th July, 2017
- Building TRUST in your infrastructure on 10th July, 2017
- Why Enterprise CIOs need to justify running their own data centres on 10th July, 2017
- Clinical Correspondence Maturity on 23rd May, 2017
- NHS Technologies on 22nd May, 2017
- Social media is not a numbers game on 15th November, 2016
- Microsoft, Oracle and the merits and pitfalls of fast following for data centre operators on 26th October, 2016
- The way out for old corporate data centres on 19th October, 2016
- Dealing with Darwin helps resolve Bi-Modal IT Issues on 23rd August, 2016
- Gartner’s latest IaaS Magic Quadrant: more than meets the eye on 11th August, 2016
- 3 Post Brexit Certainties on 12th July, 2016
- You don’t need a new sales and marketing engine, just a tune-up on 7th June, 2016
- Data Centres at the Crossroads on 10th May, 2016
- Moving Beyond Space and Power on 4th May, 2016
- One Show, Four Silos on 20th April, 2016
- CIOs don’t give a damn about your PUE rating on 8th March, 2016
- Executive Interview: Neil Cresswell, CEO, VIRTUS on 22nd February, 2016
- Will local data centres benefit from the move to the Edge? on 17th February, 2016
- Executive Interview: Steve Denby, Head of Sales, South at Node4 on 15th February, 2016
- Executive Interview: Jonathan Arnold, Managing Director, Volta Data Centres on 8th February, 2016
- The Data Centre market pot is being stirred vigorously on 2nd February, 2016
- Executive Interview: Greg McCulloch, CEO, Aegis Data on 1st February, 2016
- From tomorrow…The 12 Green Data Centre Days of Christmas on 24th December, 2015
- Just another year?…Perhaps not. on 13th December, 2015
- 5 essentials to ensure the success of your data centre proposition on 8th December, 2015
- Changing under the skin on 24th November, 2015
- Which way now for data centres? on 17th November, 2015
- Stop taking selfies and put your customers in the frame on 11th November, 2015
- Local is Good on 26th October, 2015
- What’s Your Data Centre Model? on 12th October, 2015
- Is your risk management strategy keeping up with best practices? on 6th October, 2015
- I’m a CIO. Get my IT out of here…securely on 29th September, 2015
- The Future of Data Centre Co-location – IPExpo, ExCel London, Wednesday 7th October on 21st September, 2015
- I’m a CIO. Get my IT equipment out of here. on 16th September, 2015
- Does what you do make your boat go faster? on 28th August, 2015
- Security and Business Continuity – Where are your weak links? on 24th August, 2015
- Why are you still running your own data centre? on 10th August, 2015
- Cloud is where the money is, but can data centre operators take advantage? on 28th July, 2015
- Are ordinary servers to cool to take a bath? on 21st July, 2015
- Shall we meet at Data Centre Transformation next month? on 16th June, 2015
- Data Centre Investment…Don’t Jump to Conclusions. on 10th June, 2015
- Data centres should no longer be on the CIO’s dashboard on 2nd June, 2015
- Is Marketing Talking to Your Customers? on 27th May, 2015
- Going Green Can be a Logistics Issue on 11th May, 2015
- The Equinix bid for Telecity. Purely a spoiler, or something deeper? on 8th May, 2015
- AWS is profitable: What this means for the data centre business model on 4th May, 2015
- The Ark Government Data Centre deal: the benefits of not looking like a tourist on 16th March, 2015
- Datacentre Location: A Multiple Choice Question on 4th March, 2015
- Managing People Risk in the Data Centre on 20th February, 2015
- Data Centres. Look to Your Business Models on 10th February, 2015
- Has Microsoft inadvertently given the telcos breathing space? on 16th May, 2011
- Infrastructure Managed Services on 25th April, 2011
- IT Services are Dead….Long Live IT Service on 19th April, 2011