Posts by Archana Venkatraman

Archana Venkatraman

Senior Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC Europe
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

Archana is based in IDC's London office. Follow Archana on X @archanatweets.

Business | 19/02/2026 4 min de lecture

Souveraineté des données dans le SaaS : Renforcer la résilience et la conformité pour Microsoft 365

S’il y a bien un thème des opérations numériques qui a retenu l’attention des cadres dirigeants autant que l’IA générative et agentique en 2025, c’est bien la souveraineté des données. C’est grâce à la valeur croissante des données stratégiques, à la forte concentration de données qui se trouvent en dehors du périmètre IT traditionnel et aux incertitudes géopolitiques. Lire la suite

Archana Venkatraman