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Recent Reports

AppBus transforms the tools needed to drive digital transformation

Impact Report - November 19, 2018

The tools needed to transform to a 'digital business' have a lot of moving parts. AppBus' approach is to combine the core technologies necessary for modern application automation and integration – so enterprises don't have to.
Carl Lehmann

BlackBerry purchases AI security darling Cylance to secure the 'Enterprise of Things'

Deal Analysis - November 16, 2018

Reaching for Cylance demonstrates that BlackBerry CEO John Chen is not afraid to use (a lot of) the company's cash to accelerate its efforts to secure the 'Enterprise of Things' – aka, the explosion of traditional and new IoT endpoints that IT and OT managers need to protect.
Brian Partridge Fernando Montenegro

VMware Blockchain, built on top of Project Concord, is now in beta

Impact Report - November 16, 2018

The company's managed hybrid SaaS offering, VMware Blockchain, is VMware's vision rather than a single product. The offering is underpinned by Project Concord, an open source distributed trust infrastructure developed by VMware.
Csilla Zsigri

YotaScale joins the race for intelligent infrastructure

Impact Report - November 16, 2018

The company is a new infrastructure management startup that emerged from stealth last week. The pitch is advanced data analysis and machine learning to drive self-optimizing, self-healing operations across public and private cloud infrastructure environments.
Carl Brooks

Lucidchart poised to ride the wave of visual productivity tools

Impact Report - November 16, 2018

With plans to invest heavily in research and development, Lucidchart's next year will be pivotal in terms of growth and its overall standing in the increasingly competitive visual productivity market.
Chris Marsh Rosanna Jimenez

Open Infrastructure is the OpenStack Foundation's next chapter

Spotlight - November 16, 2018

451 Research was at the last OpenStack Summit in Berlin. Last, because as the OpenStack Foundation begins to take steps to evolve beyond its core, its signature event is being rebranded as the Open Infrastructure Summit.
William Fellows Al Sadowski

Mixed buyers harvest security targets

M&A Insight - November 16, 2018

In making its latest security purchase, BlackBerry joins a pageant of infosec acquirers chasing after ballooning budgets. With BlackBerry's $1.4bn pickup of Cylance, there have now been 15 acquisitions of infosec vendors valued above $250m this year, according to 451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase. Only three of those were printed by buyers who make infosec their primary business.
Scott Denne

Nokia focuses on 5G for IoT

Analyst Note - November 16, 2018

Mike Fratto

EnterpriseDB sees PostgreSQL everywhere, especially in the cloud

Impact Report - November 15, 2018

The company plans to give customers the choice of where and how to deploy PostgreSQL, including migrating from other databases, as it rolls out a new SaaS migration tool.
James Curtis

Oracle warms to partners for its cloud infrastructure strategy

Impact Report - November 15, 2018

With a raft of announcements aimed at partners and a focus on their role in the company's cloud strategy, it's clear the software giant is courting its ecosystem to help spur adoption of its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.
Carl Brooks

How Visa and Mastercard identify and engage with strategic startups

Spotlight - November 15, 2018

With over 4,000 fintech startups listed on AngelList, keeping up with the new innovations startups are bringing to the market is no easy task. In this report, we discuss the approaches Visa and Mastercard are taking to create early inroads into the payments and commerce startup scene.
Jordan McKee

Sisense sets out investment priorities with $80m in fresh funding

Impact Report - November 15, 2018

The business intelligence vendor recently landed a fresh infusion of venture capital, which it is using to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and product development agenda in order to address organizational requirements for simplified analytics on complex data.
Krishna Roy

Telcos, aiming for cloud speed, pin hopes on industrywide APIs

Spotlight - November 15, 2018

To stay relevant in a world moving at cloud speed, telcos need automated ways to create network connections that cross onto partners' networks. The MEF's Sonata project aims to develop APIs to automate both the business and operational sides of the industry.
Craig Matsumoto

VC exits soar for some

M&A Insight - November 15, 2018

With its $8bn purchase of Qualtrics earlier this week, SAP helped push venture exits into the nosebleeds. About seven weeks remain in the year and the total value of acquired startups has already smashed the previous post-dot-com record. Yet the spoils aren't evenly distributed.
Scott Denne

Reltio adds data-quality indicators to MDM platform for data-driven applications

Impact Report - November 14, 2018

MDM-based data intelligence platform provider Reltio has announced its latest release, version 2018.3, which includes a data-quality-confidence indicator driven by machine learning. The new version also adds automated monitoring and self-healing functionality.
Matt Aslett

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