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b'Owen Rogers wears many hats at 451 Research; he\\u2019s the vice president of cloud transformation and digital economics, the research director for the firm\\u2019s digital economics unit, and a senior analyst for digital economics. Prior to these positions, Owen was a doctoral researcher in cloud computing at the University of Bristol, completing his PhD thesis in 2013; a product portfolio manager at Claranet; and an independent product management and cloud computing consultant, among other positions.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Owen as they talk about what it\\u2019s like when two cloud economists meet at an event but only one has a PhD, what exactly an industry analyst does, how 451 Research found that 53% of companies increased cloud spend during the pandemic and what resources they\\u2019re investing in, the Law of Cloud Entropy and why Owen believes the cloud will only get more disordered in the future, why it\\u2019s easy for cloud costs to spiral out of control, how organizations are trying to rein in cloud spend despite using more cloud services, why Owen doesn\\u2019t believe we\\u2019ll reach cloud commoditization anytime soon, and more.'