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Recent Reports

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

How are MTDC providers using datacenter technologies for competitive gain?

Spotlight - April 20, 2018

Demand for multi-tenant datacenter space is healthy but competition is intense, meaning opportunity for providers that can innovate and differentiate. We analyze some of the datacenter technologies, deployment approaches and services that providers are exploiting.
Jeffrey Fidacaro Rhonda Ascierto

Adobe aims to unify the entire customer experience

Impact Report - April 20, 2018

Nearly every announcement made at the company's Summit event was an attempt to bridge systems, bring users from different areas together, or make more use of existing data resources. In effect, Adobe is building, piece by piece, an enterprise-wide toolkit for creating, executing and measuring customer experiences.
Keith Dawson Sheryl Kingstone Scott Denne

With a new TKO facility, Global Switch enters Hong Kong market at last

Impact Report - April 20, 2018

Hong Kong is a new market for the company, and the launch follows a strategic investment into Global Switch made by Elegant Jubilee, a consortium of Chinese corporate and institutional investors.
Dan Thompson Teddy Miller Cameron O'Shaughnessy

An industry that runs on fear and greed

M&A Insight - April 20, 2018

The hundreds of information security vendors that swirl around the RSA Conference have all bundled up their wares and headed home. The four-day conference was crammed with too many companies, an often-jostling reminder of how the overfunding in infosec has overpopulated the industry. So how did it get that way? By appealing to some of the base motivations for human behavior: get rich but don't get hacked.
Brenon Daly

Cisco's digital transformation approach comes into focus at Collaboration Summit

Analyst Note - April 20, 2018

Raul Castanon-Martinez

eStruxture acquires Backbone Data Vault to expand its footprint in Canada

Deal Analysis - April 19, 2018

The Montreal-based datacenter startup is continuing its rapid M&A pace with the purchase of Vancouver-based Backbone Data Vault. With the move, which highlights its aggressive national ambitions, eStruxture adds a like-minded management team and a high-density facility.
Kelly Morgan Cameron O'Shaughnessy

Three trends in digital commerce fraud to monitor throughout 2018

Spotlight - April 19, 2018

Fraudulent attacks launched in digital channels against consumers, merchants and financial institutions are increasing in number and complexity. There are several drivers at play, including EMV-related shifts, ongoing high-profile data breaches and consumer spend migrating online. We share our perspective on how these drivers are fueling three fraud trends that we expect to grow in significance throughout 2018.
Jordan McKee

AWS Marketplace: changing the role of procurement

Impact Report - April 19, 2018

The company's view that 'perpetual licensing is dead' underpins the long-term opportunity for its AWS Marketplace of SaaS offerings. As customers move from perpetual to subscription and utility models, Marketplace enables them to take advantage of the fact that on cloud ISVs can push updates frequently.
William Fellows

CIPHER decrypts enterprise security challenges with managed security, consulting service

Impact Report - April 19, 2018

Cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for enterprises as reports of attacks such as phishing and ransomware continue to soar. Pure-play MSSP CIPHER Security looks to deliver a holistic, customizable and global approach to enterprise security services.
Aaron Sherrill Jasmine Rishi

Colo Corner: Chinese datacenter providers adapt to restrictions in primary markets

Spotlight - April 19, 2018

City governments in China's primary MTDC markets are making it increasingly difficult to build large-scale facilities due to environmental concerns. Many colocation services providers are locating new builds in nearby secondary markets.
Teddy Miller Cameron O'Shaughnessy

Vehicle connectivity, security and autonomy innovations and implications at SAE's WCX

Spotlight - April 19, 2018

SAE recently held its annual World Congress Experience event, which showcased the early stages of the automotive industry's transformation toward connected, electric and autonomous vehicles to address its proposed utopian transportation goals.
David Immerman

With GDPR looming, Google highlights security

Spotlight - April 18, 2018

Google's recent activity covered a wide swath of its portfolio - Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Chrome Enterprise and mobile - touching on data protection, identity as a service, expanded monitoring and FedRAMP authorization for GCP. All were centered on a single theme increasingly emphasized by major cloud providers: security.
Scott Crawford Garrett Bekker Fernando Montenegro

PhysIQ applies AI born from jets to help healthcare clinicians improve patient outcomes

Impact Report - April 18, 2018

By doing the bulk of the work to identify changes in patients' health status, its AI allows clinicians to reprioritize and address the most ill patients first. This shifts as many patients as possible from reactive inpatient treatments to less costly, proactive outpatient treatment and remote monitoring.
John Spooner Rosanna Jimenez

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