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Recent Reports

Mobile operators should not be slowed by net-neutrality uncertainty

Spotlight - February 26, 2015

The FCC's Title II uber-aggressiveness ensures its ruling isn't the final word. That uncertainty won't – and shouldn't – freeze mobile operators in today's highly competitive environment. But it does add ambiguity in plotting the path forward.
Rich Karpinski

Soltra disrupts the market for threat-intelligence sharing with vendor-agnostic platform

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

Two highly influential organizations, the FS-ISAC and DTCC, got together and started building their own platform, called Soltra Edge. It's a welcome step in some quarters, and not so much in others.
Wendy Nather

Facebook is getting ready for Work

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

Despite all the noise, Facebook is not quite ready to launch an 'At Work' version of its popular social network, but it is certainly working on it. Over the next six months, it will look at feedback and input from trial users and figure out where to take the product.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Informatica defines a framework to include API integration in its iPaaS Cloud

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

The company is addressing the need for API control technology as part of its data-integration strategy and Informatica Cloud iPaaS. Informatica will also be staking a claim to API management of sorts by bringing to market technology obtained in its StrikeIron buy.
Carl Lehmann

BitFury and Allied Control come together to rewrite the datacenter rulebook

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

The Bitcoin infrastructure company announced its intent to purchase the liquid cooling specialist, and the two have developed technology with the potential to bleed into mainstream datacenter design and operation.
Andrew Donoghue

Telecom Italia differentiates on FMC and network quality in a polarized mobile market

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

As the Italian mobile market shows signs of recovery, the company adopts a single brand strategy, plans new FMC propositions and differentiates on network quality. We expect the company to focus on retaining high-ARPU households and winning back broadband customers.
Declan Lonergan

SpiderCloud goes to Mobile World Congress with new dual-band node

Impact Report - February 26, 2015

With a new dual-band small-cell radio node for its scalable Enterprise Radio Access Network, SpiderCloud Wireless offers flexible 3G and 4G band combinations and Bluetooth Low Energy. Does this portfolio addition (along with fresh VC) cement its place in the small-cell ecosystem?
Ken Rehbehn

AWS's DynamoDB becomes cheaper for those willing to commit

Analyst Note - February 26, 2015

Think it through: nine short years in, and IBM realigns behind the cloud

Analyst Note - February 26, 2015

William Fellows

A new owner for Courion?

M&A Insight - February 26, 2015

Although cloud technology has spurred a renewal of customer demand for identity-related security technology, the IAM market is in the midst of a fairly significant shakeout. The latest deal has a PE shop picking up Courion.
Brenon Daly

Kaspersky Lab's big announcements presage its strategy shift

Impact Report - February 25, 2015

They say only Nixon could go to China, and only Kaspersky Lab could position itself as the counterbalance to North American-based security research. It's walking a careful line between using its research to advance its marketing message and backing that up with technical and intelligence expertise.
Wendy Nather Chris Hazelton

Ufora builds a full integrated stack for data analytics running on parallel systems

Impact Report - February 25, 2015

The Ufora platform, an attempt to address the shortfalls of the 'legacy' tools on the market today (including MATLAB, R, Mathematica and SAS), combines 'big data' with 'big compute' and automated parallelization to run algorithms and mathematical models across distributed, multi-processor systems.
John Abbott

DAM eager for M&A

M&A Insight - February 25, 2015

There is nothing new about digital asset management technology. However, until now it has remained a niche within a niche – essential to a few, but an afterthought for most. Yet today, as major digital marketing, commerce, customer experience and dynamic supply chain projects begin in earnest, rich media is playing a critical supporting role.
Matt Mullen Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Asetek resolves lawsuits, adds partners to boost liquid-cooled datacenter business

Impact Report - February 25, 2015

Direct liquid cooling technology supplier Asetek has secured a number of high-profile government projects and announced new partners, including Johnson Controls. It also resolved lawsuits with two rival DLC suppliers.
Andrew Donoghue

MongoLab prepares Telemetry performance-analysis service for hosted MongoDB databases

Impact Report - February 25, 2015

The company is preparing a new service to enable users to analyze historical performance data from its MongoDB database hosting service, and has its eyes on expanding its purview beyond hosted databases.
Matt Aslett