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Recent Reports

Dimension Data finds transformation begins at home

Impact Report - September 30, 2016

The company is recognizing the need for its own transformation, as well as that of the customer; it also sees a need for significant reorganization, and a review of the skills required.
Peter Christy William Fellows

CloudGenera mobilizes cloud broker capability

Impact Report - September 30, 2016

Demand is high for sales tools that can help transition the traditional technology sales business, which is based around license sales, to a monthly recurring revenue model. This is CloudGenera's opportunity to enable customers to make private, hybrid and public cloud decisions.
William Fellows

China's datacenter 'Big Three' update their strategies as they face new competition

Spotlight - September 30, 2016

China's state-owned telecommunications firms are by far the biggest players in the country's emerging colocation market. Faced with growing competition from global datacenter companies, however, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile are having to adapt on their home turf.
Teddy Miller Dan Thompson Kelly Morgan

Saviynt brings identity governance to data and cloud resources, with a dose of CASB

Impact Report - September 30, 2016

The company has built what it considers a next-generation identity and access governance platform that combines access governance for applications, data and infrastructure for both legacy on-premises and cloud resources.
Garrett Bekker

Appirio adds digital experience to its services portfolio

Impact Report - September 30, 2016

What does 'digital' mean? Is it to do with digital technology, is it marketing, or is it a completely new business model? Appirio has the experience to provide the answers.
Katy Ring

Voice of the Enterprise: capex on datacenters and IT infrastructure show signs of weakness

Spotlight - September 30, 2016

While still not declining in most cases, datacenter and facilities spending is relatively flat (about +2%) quarter over quarter, with IT infrastructure spending (server, storage and networking) growing faster (about +4%) but at a decelerated pace from the same time last year. Usage of cloud and colocation resources in place of on-site infrastructure continues.
Dan Harrington

Nutanix converges on Wall Street

M&A Insight - September 30, 2016

The company saw its stock price double during its first day of trading on the back of strong financials and, as in other recent IPOs, its position as an early leader in an emerging market category.
Scott Denne Henry Baltazar

Citrix grows closer to Microsoft through a series of Azure cloud initiatives