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Recent Reports

Adobe buys big into B2B with blockbuster acquisition of Marketo

Deal Analysis - September 21, 2018

The company has shelled out $4.8bn to acquire privately held Marketo from Vista Equity Partners, which itself paid about $1.8bn for the marketing automation vendor just two years ago. The deal will bring a considerable B2B capability to Adobe's Experience Manager suite, an area that it mostly lacked to date.
Keith Dawson Scott Denne

MariaDB nabs fellow relational database vendor Clustrix

Deal Analysis - September 21, 2018

Known as a drop-in replacement for open source MySQL, MariaDB acquired California-based Clustrix in a move to help drive MariaDB's database scaling expertise, and compete more directly with incumbent relational database vendors.
James Curtis

DarwinAI aims to reduce time to inference for AI deep neural networks

Impact Report - September 21, 2018

The company is a new entrant into the automated machine learning field. Its Generative Synthesis technology allows data scientists and machine learning experts to simplify existing deep learning models and gain insight into the model's decision-making process.
Nick Patience Jeremy Korn

VMworld 2018: VMware addresses automation in product enhancements

Spotlight - September 21, 2018

The company unveiled a range of product enhancements aimed at boosting automation and orchestration of virtualized environments, which will help solidify VMware's strategic presence in digital transformation.
Christian Perry

RavenDB takes flight with its NoSQL database providing ACID-based transactions

Impact Report - September 21, 2018

The company recently rolled out an updated version of its NoSQL database that is primarily targeted at transactional ACID workloads that also need to be highly available and fault tolerant.
James Curtis

Marketing deals rise, once again, on Marketo

M&A Insight - September 21, 2018

Marketo has now twice driven marketing tech M&A to new heights. Adobe's $4.8bn acquisition of the marketing automation vendor pushes the total value of marketing deals past its previous record, set in 2016, a year when Vista Equity Partners' $1.8bn take-private of the same company was the largest transaction in the category.
Scott Denne

Vonage acquires NewVoiceMedia to complement its UCaaS with contact-center services

Deal Analysis - September 20, 2018

The communications service provider has announced the purchase of NewVoiceMedia, a privately held company that offers a cloud-based contact-center platform, enabling it to combine two forms of business communications under the umbrella of a single provider – something enterprises increasingly desire.
Keith Dawson Raul Castanon-Martinez

Cisco aims to accelerate industry-wide blockchain adoption

Impact Report - September 20, 2018

The network equipment and technology giant is targeting supply chains with its brand-new blockchain platform, with the starting point being its own ecosystem of partners, suppliers and customers. General availability is scheduled for 2019.
Csilla Zsigri

Sumo Logic rolls out new SIEM, promises more advanced analytics

Impact Report - September 20, 2018

The company recently announced a new SaaS SIEM product. The idea is to deliver a cloud SIEM offering that collects logs from apps and security products, and then analyzes and correlates the data in order to identify security issues.
Nancy Gohring Eric Ogren

Seldon augurs the future of deploying and managing machine learning models on Kubernetes

Impact Report - September 20, 2018

Seldon Core is a framework built from open source components for deploying and managing machine learning models on Kubernetes. The company's goal is to provide a platform that enables enterprise data scientists and DevOps/DataOps teams to collaboratively implement machine learning initiatives.
Matt Aslett Jeremy Korn

Security service ideas: IAM

Spotlight - September 20, 2018

As we've seen in our research, organizations believe that preventing and detecting insider espionage is the top security threat they are inadequately equipped to address. This underscores a general feeling that organizations are doing a poor job of protecting user credentials and controlling access to data.
Aaron Sherrill Dan Thompson

With HCTS around the corner, hosting M&A sees slowdown from record highs

M&A Insight - September 20, 2018

Hosted services M&A is poised for a significant drop-off this year. Massive multi-tenant datacenter consolidation has cut the number of sizable targets available for purchase, drastically reducing M&A spending. However, hosting providers are offering more managed hosting and cloud services, and inking deals to help them do it.
Mark Fontecchio

John Hancock taps Vitality to infuse subscribers with improved health

Analyst Note - September 20, 2018

John Spooner

Hitachi Vantara turns up the AI in datacenter management

Impact Report - September 19, 2018

One of the company's long-term goals is to promote the use of AI, analytics and IoT across a range of industries, but it isn't forgetting its role as an infrastructure provider, and has recently increased the AI in its datacenter management tools.
Tim Stammers

AWS targets workforce productivity with Alexa for Business

Impact Report - September 19, 2018

The company is leveraging its voice-recognition and natural language understanding technologies in a bid to help organizations streamline and automate business tasks. The move should strengthen AWS's position as an enterprise vendor.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

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