Breaking Analysis: Amping it up with Frank Slootman
Organizations have considerable room to improve their performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure or fundamental business model. You don’t need a slew of consultants to tell you what to do. You already know. What you need is to immediately ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency and intensity. Fight mediocrity every step of the […]
Breaking Analysis: Answering the top 10 questions about supercloud
As we exited the isolation economy last year, supercloud is a term we introduced to describe something new that was happening in the world of cloud. In this Breaking Analysis we address the ten most frequently asked questions we get on supercloud. Today we’ll address the following frequently asked questions: 1. In an industry full […]
Breaking Analysis: Tech valuations could get worse – Here’s why we’re still optimistic
After a two year epic run in tech, 2022 has been an epically bad year in the market. Through yesterday, the Nasdaq composite is down 30%, the S&P 500 is off 21%, the DJIA down 16% and the poor HODLers of BTC have had to endure a nearly 60% decline year to date. But judging by […]
Breaking Analysis: Tech Spending Intentions are Holding Despite Macro Concerns
Despite fears of inflation, supply chain issues, skyrocketing energy and home prices and global instability caused by the Ukraine crisis, CIOs and IT buyers continue to expect overall spending to increase more than 6% in 2022. While this is lower than our 8% prediction made in January of this year, it remains in line with […]
Breaking Analysis: Snowflake Summit 2022…All About Apps & Monetizing Data
Much of the energy around data innovation that dispersed with the decline of Hadoop’s relevance is coalescing in a new ecosystem spawned by the ascendency of Snowflake’s Data Cloud. What was once seen as a simpler cloud data warehouse and good marketing with Data Cloud, is evolving rapidly with new workloads, a vertical industry focus, data […]
Breaking Analysis: Snowflake Summit 2022…All About Apps & Monetizing Data
Much of the energy around data innovation that dispersed with the decline of Hadoop’s relevance is coalescing in a new ecosystem spawned by the ascendency of Snowflake’s Data Cloud. What was once seen as a simpler cloud data warehouse and good marketing with Data Cloud, is evolving rapidly with new workloads, a vertical industry focus, data […]
Breaking Analysis: How Snowflake Plans to Make Data Cloud a De Facto Standard
When Frank Slootman took ServiceNow public, many people undervalued the company, positioning it as just a better help desk tool. It turns out the firm actually had a massive TAM expansion opportunity in ITSM, HR, logistics, security, marketing and customer service management. NOW’s stock price followed the stellar execution under Slootman and CFO Mike Scarpelli’s […]
Failing to Upgrade Oracle Database 12c to 19c Exposes Organizations to Ransomware & Cyber-attacks
by, Marc Staimer June, 2022 Research Premise It is a well-known fact that few if any DBA pros enjoy or simply welcome performing any database upgrade. It’s easy to understand why. The process has historically been tedious, time-consuming, and labor-intensive together with downtime and, often, weekend work. The database applications frequently break after the […]
Failing to Upgrade Oracle Database 12c to 19c Exposes Organizations to Ransomware & Cyber-attacks
by, Marc Staimer June, 2022 Research Premise It is a well-known fact that few if any DBA pros enjoy or simply welcome performing any database upgrade. It’s easy to understand why. The process has historically been tedious, time-consuming, and labor-intensive together with downtime and, often, weekend work. The database applications frequently break after the […]