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Recent Reports

The cloud bandwidth tax punishes those focused on the short term

Spotlight - January 18, 2019

The majority of users today will pay a tax for accessing their cloud data over the Internet. Those that access regularly and store for a limited time pay higher units costs than those that take a longer-term view.
Owen Rogers

Octopai extends its tentacles beyond automated metadata management for BI

Impact Report - January 18, 2019

The metadata management automation specialist has established itself as a provider of metadata management automation software focused on the needs of BI teams, but it is also looking to form partnerships with complementary data governance and data catalog providers.
Matt Aslett

Autonomy-level classification for robots in an IIoT world

Spotlight - January 18, 2019

'Robot' has become a catch-all term loaded with expectations such as a degree of autonomous operation, but many robots in operation today – e.g., industrial robots – are not autonomous at all. They may become autonomous and more connected in an IIoT world, but there is a spectrum of autonomy and functionality to consider.
Ian Hughes Raymond Huo

Microsoft extends MyAnalytics, offering productivity tracking to more business users

Impact Report - January 18, 2019

End users can leverage the company's productivity-tracking tool to understand how much time they're spending on certain tasks, enhance their use of business tools like email, and improve work/life balance.
Conner Forrest

Element Critical enters Chicago market with two suburban datacenters

Impact Report - January 18, 2019

The colocation provider has entered the Chicago market via the purchase of two live multi-tenant datacenters in the western suburbs. The San Francisco-based company will also invest $40m in developing and enhancing the facilities.
Teddy Miller

AWS acquires TSO Logic to right-size cloud at right cost

Deal Analysis - January 17, 2019

TSO Logic is AWS's second acquisition of 2019. As with CloudEndure, this acquisition provides the kind of forensic cloud optimization tasks that AWS has previously delivered at a high level or via partners.
William Fellows

A primer on quantum security

Spotlight - January 17, 2019

451 Research is establishing a new cross-discipline Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies. In preparation, this report provides a beginner's guide to quantum key exchange based on what Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance.'
Owen Rogers Garrett Bekker

Azure stakes a claim in serverless beyond event-driven FaaS

Impact Report - January 17, 2019

Microsoft has roadmapped its developer-focused offerings to encompass not only event-driven models but also low- and no-code offerings that make applications truly serverless. The ultimate goal is to abstract programming away from underlying infrastructure so developers (and even non-developers) can focus on business logic.
Jean Atelsek

AI and voice-enabled applications will change how we work in 2019

Spotlight - January 17, 2019

We examine the ways in which Apprente, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Orion Labs and Voicea are using voice-enabled applications to target enterprise use cases, as well as these applications are impacting workforce productivity and collaboration.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

Colt hops the pond to build a North American presence

Impact Report - January 17, 2019

The networking arm of UK-based Colt has landed on North American shores and now spans the globe. It's a busy time for the company, with its SDN, SD-WAN and cloud connectivity offerings all playing to the theme of enterprises connecting to clouds.
Craig Matsumoto

Prysm helps enterprises focus on simplifying and accelerating critical processes

Impact Report - January 17, 2019

The company aims to provide a rich visual digital platform that can be used in conjunction with display technology, to enable interactive planning meetings, presentations, trainings and customer experiences.
Chris Marsh Rosanna Jimenez

Fiserv acquires First Data for $22bn in a landmark deal for the payments industry

Deal Analysis - January 16, 2019

In an all-stock deal that has sent shockwaves across both the payment card issuance and merchant acceptance value chains, Fiserv has acquired First Data for $22bn. Once closed, Fiserv will have the ingredients to orchestrate a unique new payments network connecting to banks, merchants and billers.
Jordan McKee Cameron O'Shaughnessy

Top 10 IT trends for 2019

Spotlight - January 16, 2019

As a companion to our 2019 Preview TBIs, here we offer a higher-level perspective on this collective insight: considered altogether, what do we view as the major themes that will drive the IT industry overall through 2019?
Simon Robinson Matt Aslett Sheryl Kingstone Christian Renaud Scott Crawford Chris Marsh William Fellows Nick Patience Owen Rogers Brenon Daly

AppNeta zeros in on performance visibility in remote locations

Impact Report - January 16, 2019

The company is bundling together a few approaches to network visibility that well serve the needs of organizations running business-critical applications – including those delivered via the cloud – in remote locations.
Nancy Gohring

ServiceMax enables industrial-scale CX through asset management and field service tools

Impact Report - January 16, 2019

The company has insights into problems that go deep into issues of equipment maintenance, conditions of use, and the overall lifecycle of tools used in industrial processes. It is an area of the customer experience crying out to be automated and optimized.
Keith Dawson

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