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Recent Reports

Ericsson builds its own CDN and takes aim at edge computing

Impact Report - April 24, 2018

Ericsson's Unified Delivery Network, a network that the vendor built and operates itself, could help service providers monetize over-the-top content. More ambitiously, it could help service providers get a share of edge computing before CDNs and public clouds absorb it all.
Craig Matsumoto

EkkoSense grows by solving an old problem: poor datacenter cooling

Impact Report - April 24, 2018

Many attempts have been made to instrument the datacenter with sensors, and then optimize expensive cooling with smart software. The challenge is to do so without adding costs or management worries.
Andy Lawrence

The network and datacenter implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Spotlight - April 24, 2018

China's Belt and Road Initiative is a broad development strategy through which the Chinese government is supporting billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure and trade projects in foreign countries, especially those in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe. This infrastructure project includes network and datacenter builds.
Teddy Miller Cameron O'Shaughnessy

Avi Networks automates multi-cloud application delivery

Impact Report - April 24, 2018

The company has enhanced the integration of datacenter management platforms Ansible and Terraform with Avi Vantage's machine-learning capabilities. New features enable enterprises to automate the deployment and scaling of applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Jim Duffy

With Wrappup, Voicera aims to expand virtual assistant Eva beyond conference calls

Impact Report - April 24, 2018

The creator of Eva, an AI-enabled virtual assistant for online meetings, recently acquired Wrappup, an AI-enabled mobile app for note-taking. Voicera believes that the use of AI can help knowledge workers spend less time taking notes, and focus their attention on getting work done efficiently.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

Splunk revs its AI and machine-learning capabilities in new release

Analyst Note - April 24, 2018

Nick Patience

Automation and integration in hybrid IT architecture: 2018 research agenda

Spotlight - April 23, 2018

The accelerating pace of automating business and IT operations within enterprises has profound implications. It's changing the way business processes are codified within and across applications, how applications are developed and integrated, and how the tools needed to track the resources and outcomes of modern digital transformation initiatives are crafted and implemented.
Carl Lehmann

Key management vendor KeyNexus targets enterprises with on-premises version

Impact Report - April 23, 2018

The company was early to market with a hardware security module-as-a-service offering. Its new KeyNexus Enterprise extends its key management capabilities to on-premises resources with a distributed product that could appeal to larger enterprises operating in hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
Garrett Bekker

Cloudesire targets the 'era of consumption' with brokering platform

Impact Report - April 23, 2018

The company's brokering and monetization software suite is designed to provide automation for SaaS-enablement and marketplace-based distribution of applications across clouds, using whatever commercial model is prescribed by the customer. It's aimed at vendors, telcos, service providers and VARs, as well as enterprises like banks, utilities and publishers.
William Fellows

Engineering Group shifts to 'freemium' strategy under Knowage brand

Impact Report - April 23, 2018

The business intelligence division of Italian software and services firm Engineering Group SPA is operating under a new name, Knowage, which is intended to reflect a fresh business model for its open-source-based analytics suite.
Krishna Roy

China Mobile to use Hong Kong datacenter as springboard for global expansion

Impact Report - April 23, 2018

China Mobile International, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile, generally leverages colocation and managed services to support the carrier's larger network business. The provider operates one self-built datacenter in Hong Kong's Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate that serves as China Mobile International's core hub for the entire APAC region.
Teddy Miller Dan Thompson Cameron O'Shaughnessy

Heavy clouds

M&A Insight - April 23, 2018

Getting to the cloud isn't easy. That's true for clients as well as technology providers that want to take them there. To understand how that comes through in business, consider the current standing of Pivotal Software, a company that has traveled a long and winding road before arriving on the NYSE.
Brenon Daly

Huawei aspires to be a top-five cloud provider with OpenStack at core

Analyst Note - April 23, 2018

Al Sadowski

Under new ownership, Alfresco strengthens architecture, moves into AppDev

Impact Report - April 20, 2018

Enterprises want better ways to enable process and content management, but in the current market, the technology needed must be far less complex and far more capable. Thomas H. Lee Partners' bet on Alfresco is likely to be a profitable investment, but some speculate it might be scaffolding for something more.
Carl Lehmann Melissa Incera

For artificial intelligence, Pure Storage and NVIDIA reckon two heads are better than one

Impact Report - April 20, 2018

Flash array maker Pure Storage and GPU compute vendor NVIDIA have combined forces to create what they say is a turnkey converged platform for the deep-learning sector of AI. Converged systems are already popular in mainstream IT, and the deep-learning sector has its own reasons to be even more attracted to the concept.
Tim Stammers

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