Breaking Analysis: RPA has Become a Transformation Catalyst, Here’s What’s New
In its early days, robotic process automation emerged from rudimentary screen scraping, macros and workflow automation software. Once a script-heavy and limited tool that was almost exclusively used to perform mundane tasks for individual users, RPA has evolved into an enterprise-wide megatrend that puts automation at the center of digital business initiatives. In this Breaking […]
Breaking Analysis: RPA has Become a Transformation Catalyst, Here's What's New
In its early days, robotic process automation emerged from rudimentary screen scraping, macros and workflow automation software. Once a script-heavy and limited tool that was almost exclusively used to perform mundane tasks for individual users, RPA has evolved into an enterprise-wide megatrend that puts automation at the center of digital business initiatives. In this Breaking […]
Breaking Analysis: Cyber Security Stocks Caught in the Storm While Private Firms Keep Rising
The pandemic precipitated what is shaping up to be a permanent shift in cyber security spending patterns. As a direct result of hybrid work, CISOs have invested heavily in endpoint security, identity access management, cloud security and further hardening the network beyond the HQ. Moreover, the need to build security into applications from the start, […]
Breaking Analysis: The Improbable Rise of Kubernetes to Become the Cloud OS
The rise of Kubernetes came about through a combination of forces that were in hindsight, quite a long shot. AWS’ dominance created momentum for cloud native application development and the need for simpler experiences beyond easily spinning up compute as a service. This wave crashed into innovations from a startup named Docker and a reluctant […]
Breaking Analysis: What to Expect in Cloud 2022 & Beyond
We’ve often said that the next ten years in cloud computing won’t be like the last ten. Cloud has firmly planted its footprint on the other side of the chasm with the momentum of the entire multi-trillion dollar technology business behind it. Both sellers and buyers are leaning in by adopting cloud technologies and many […]
Breaking Analysis: What to Expect in Cloud 2022 & Beyond
We’ve often said that the next ten years in cloud computing won’t be like the last ten. Cloud has firmly planted its footprint on the other side of the chasm with the momentum of the entire multi-trillion dollar technology business behind it. Both sellers and buyers are leaning in by adopting cloud technologies and many […]
The Compelling Economic Value of Incomparable Database Performance
Research Premise When Oracle announced the latest X9M generation for Exadata Cloud@Customer, Exadata Database Machine and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (Recovery Appliance), it radically pushed the database performance envelope to mindboggling heights. Oracle performance specifications are remarkable at ≤19 µs average read latency with more than 27.6 million Oracle Database 8K SQL read IOPS […]
Breaking Analysis: Securing Your Snowflake Cloud Data
The challenges of legacy data warehouses have been well documented. Built on rigid infrastructure and managed by specialized gatekeepers, data warehouses of the past were, as one financial customer once told us, “like a snake swallowing a basketball.” Slide from Wikibon’s 2014 Big Data Capital Markets Event: The amount of data ingested into a data […]
Breaking Analysis: Enterprise Technology Predictions 2022
With Erik Bradley The pandemic has changed the way we think about, and predict the future. As we enter the third year of COVID, we see the significant impact it’s had on technology strategies, spending patterns and company fortunes. Much has changed and while many of these changes were forced reactions to a new abnormal, […]