Wasting Money on Public Cloud Storage
A Cohesity survey found that 47% of IT executives are worried about blowing their organization’s IT budget on unnecessary storage.
IT Ops Assumes a Greater Role in Container Management
Research from Kubernetes provider Diamanti corroborates three trends we’ve seen in recent market research about containers adoption: 1) IT operations teams have taken the lead; 2) security, not state, is the biggest obstacle to increased adoption; and 3) performance, not cost, is the reason to run containers on bare metal.
Why Salesforce and Google Bought Tableau and Looker
Salesforce is buying Tableau and Google Cloud is adding Looker to its family. After reviewing a panoply of studies about business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data warehousing, we found it evident that both acquisitions will provide best-in-class functionality addressing the needs of both business analysts and the IT department, as well as leadership in high-growth markets that are only tangentially related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Legacy Customers’ Concerns Propel Oracle’s Move Towards Microsoft
The Microsoft/Oracle partnership further guarantees support for Oracle applications can be run in a cloud (Azure) even if the company does not choose Oracle as its primary cloud provider.
Low-Code Platform Adoption Gets a Boost from Digital Transformation
As low-code platforms increasingly become part of IT strategies, executives should remember that while these tools can democratize coding, the core audience for these products are skeptical professional developers that are likely to rely on their primary tools to for everyday coding.
Low-Code Platform Adoption Gets a Boost from Digital Transformation
Twenty-eight percent of low-code platform users say escaping technical debt is a benefit. The theory is that low-code platforms generate less custom code that has to be reviewed at a later date.
Vendors’ Opportunity to Profit From Digital Transformation
Inspired by a conversation with a good friend, I looked at some of my previous analysis about market opportunities for IT vendors and consultancies to profit from digital transformation efforts. I still believe technology companies are well positioned to identify opportunities to initiate larger digital […]
Vendors Compete for Users of Stream Processing Technologies
Apache’s Flink, Beam, NiFi, Pulsar and Storm are all getting significant levels of consideration.
IT Spending: Top Down vs. Decentralized Decision Making
Fifty-three percent of IT leaders made significant changes to their IT operating model or organization in the last two years, and another 37 percent are in the process of making changes according to the aforementioned survey.
Time Spent on Project Licensing and Dependencies Declined
The dependencies in open source packages are of greater concern than their licenses.
Concern About ‘State’ Lessens as More Applications Use Stream Processing
Stream processing users often start with ETL and messaging between microservices, then move into more advanced use cases.
AIOps Users Found in the Wild
Adoption figures for AI, ML, and intelligent automation are all over the map depending on how the terms are defined and who is asked about it.