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Recent Reports

QuintessenceLabs 'tunnels' into the quantum key opportunity

Impact Report - March 21, 2019

The Australia-based startup is using quantum tunneling to create uncrackable codes. At its core, QLabs was built around innovations in quantum key distribution.
Owen Rogers

In monitoring, it's about bringing together all the data

Spotlight - March 21, 2019

We are seeing more vendors develop ways to analyze operations data from across the hybrid IT landscape. New requirements, including an awareness of topology and embracing open source are emerging.
Nancy Gohring

BigID looks to data access governance to further build out its data privacy footprint

Impact Report - March 21, 2019

2018 was a good year for BigID, which included taking home the top prize at the Innovation Sandbox at RSA Conference 2018, raising $30m in new funding and expanding the organization at a rapid clip. The most recent development was the launch of Data Access Intelligence to take BigID more directly down the path of data access governance.
Garrett Bekker

ZutaCore joins the startup crowd to surf the coming wave of liquid cooling

Impact Report - March 21, 2019

The company says its approach is different from those of others in that it combines features of multiple techniques in order to achieve high-performance cooling without the cost and complexity.
Daniel Bizo

Rhythmic Technologies bets on AWS for managed services growth

Impact Report - March 21, 2019

Managed services on Amazon Web Services is where the money is today for a large cohort of the managed services business. Rhythmic Technologies is right to approach this aspect of the cloud ecosystem and to focus on the basic needs of enterprise in the cloud, like security.
Carl Brooks

Klaxoon aims to drive productivity with integrated approach to team collaboration

Impact Report - March 21, 2019

The company is looking to improve meetings, increase engagement and facilitate decision-making with an integrated approach to team collaboration that brings together best practices in education, agile methods and visual management.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

Axway's latest API play

M&A Insight - March 21, 2019

The data integration vendor returns to the M&A market reaching for the same goal, but using a different strategy. The acquisition of Streamdata.io marks its first purchase in two years – a break that saw Axway's topline shrink amid a transition away from software licenses.
Scott Denne

Undercutting the competition: 10-25% cheaper is just right for enterprise cloud buyers

Spotlight - March 20, 2019

A price-sensitivity analysis of enterprise cloud buyer behavior finds that being a few percentage points cheaper doesn't guarantee a greater volume of sales. Low double-digit savings drive decision-makers to be more open-minded, but savings of greater than 25% don't incrementally win more business.
Owen Rogers

Kofax blends its process, content and robot tech into an intelligent automation platform

Impact Report - March 20, 2019

Kofax's roots in enterprise content management spread to business process management then to robotic process automation. Its technology portfolio now comes together as a uniform digital automation platform.
Carl Lehmann Nick Patience

HCL Technologies sets sights on platform and middleware as the next logical move

Impact Report - March 20, 2019

On the network side, HCL has already invested in driving SDI innovation by opening multiple labs and building out its ecosystem of SDI partners, and is ramping up its Mode 3 strategy through the acquisition of select IBM products.
Agatha Poon

Kronos wants to use AI to power the next generation of workforce management

Impact Report - March 20, 2019

The firm launched its AIMEE AI engine in November 2018, and is using it to power new tools in its Dimensions product for fighting attrition, forecasting best-fit schedules, task automation and maintaining compliance. Dimensions borrows from gig-economy trends, looking toward more future-focused approaches to HR tech.
Conner Forrest

Kemp Technologies chases the application experience

Impact Report - March 20, 2019

The company has enhanced its product offering with new tools to provide pre-deployment assessment of competing application delivery controllers and the demands of the applications those products front-end.
Mike Fratto

Buenos Aires' services-rich datacenter market grows slowly, but stays interesting

Spotlight - March 20, 2019

On the surface, it might appear that Argentina is an underserved datacenter market, but it turns out that the market has space available, it's just not going anywhere. We take a look at why this may be.
Dan Thompson Emily Wentworth

Playing small ball in the big leagues

M&A Insight - March 20, 2019

Over the past two years, no single IT sector has put forward more highly valued IPOs than information security. Spurred by ever-increasing spending by CISOs, startups across the cybersecurity landscape are either big or getting big fast. So what, then, to make of the recent IPO filing by the subscale Tufin Software Technologies?
Brenon Daly

FIS buys Worldpay for $35bn in largest payments deal of all time

Deal Analysis - March 19, 2019

The global giant in financial services technology has announced an agreement to acquire Worldpay for $32bn in stock and $3bn in cash. Further accelerating the aggressive consolidation of the payments industry, this announcement comes on the heels of Fiserv's $22bn acquisition of First Data in January.
Jordan McKee Cameron O'Shaughnessy Scott Denne Haley Brown

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