Insight Type: Research Note

August 25, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

HPE Shows Resilience With Much Improved Q3 Results

HPE saw a much improved Q3 results after slipping in Q2, showing the company may be on the other side of tough times due to the pandemic.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 25, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

Samsung’s AppStack Launch is a Boon to SMBs Seeking to Embrace Digital Transformation

Samsung’s AppStack launch is a boon to SMBs seeking to embrace digital transformation. Solutions range from G Suite’s collaboration platform, to CRMs, time tracking, design, POS offerings, and more. AppStack is billed as a one stop, easy-to-manage, no-risk, lower cost technology solution and is an attractive offering. Now, comes the hard part — getting consumer attention and driving trial.

Digital Transformation

August 24, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

Google Maps Will Track U.S. Wildfires By The Hour

In an effort to help residents of Colorado and California, Google Maps will now track the U.S. wildfires by the hour. Google search users will not only pull up news results, but the fire tracking maps will also be displayed.

Digital Transformation

August 24, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Amazon Creating Jobs While Defining a Hybrid Future of Work

Amazon is adding an expanded hub and spoke model that is enabling more job creation in markets outside the company's headquarters.

Cloud, Digital Home, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

August 22, 2020

Ron Westfall

Research Note

AppDynamics SAP Peak Enables Enterprises to Handle the Truth about their SAP Landscapes

AppDynamics significantly bolsters its ability to make further inroads into the larger enterprise and SMB market segments of the global APM market with the SAP Peak launch. The offering enables AppDynamics and parent company Cisco to quickly differentiate and steal sales and marketing thunder from rivals in fulfilling the latest and most pressing SAP monitoring demands of enterprises and businesses. SAP Peak augments both companies’ Central Nervous System vision of driving the AIOps journey for business while also advancing Cisco’s strategic goal of developing an applications-driven portfolio that expands its software and services revenue streams.

Cloud, ERP

August 21, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket Quantum Computing Tool

AWS announced last week the general availability of Amazon Braket, its new quantum computing tool. Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that Amazon markets as a service that will spur innovation across the entire quantum community, allowing developers, researchers, and scientists to experiment with computers from quantum hardware providers, while only paying for compute services used. With companies like Fidelity, VW and University of Waterloo already using the tool, Braket is now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.

Emerging Technologies, Quantum Computing

August 21, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

SpaceX Launches Second Starlink Mission This Month: Breaks Booster Record

SpaceX successfully launched its second Starlink satellite mission this month. In addition to beefing up the number of satellites in its broadband internet constellation and continuing its satellite rideshare efforts, SpaceX also broke a record for using the same booster for the sixth time.

Digital Transformation

August 20, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

REvil Ransomware Breach Targets Jack Daniel’s Parent Brown-Forman — Steals 1 TB of Data

The REvil ransomware cyber gang claims to have attacked Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniel’s and other popular liquor brands. The sophisticated ransomware gang claims to be holding 1TB of Brown-Forman corporate data for ransom, including employee information, pledging to leak the data in batches if the company does not respond to its demands. Brown-Forman has released few details about the attack, and claims “There are no active negotiations.”

Cybersecurity, Security

August 19, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

NVIDIA Q2 Delivers Record Revenue: Datacenter Business Up 167%

NVIDIA has continued its stellar momentum which has sent its stock to nearly $500 a share on the back of explosive AI growth.

August 19, 2020

Ron Westfall

Research Note

MEF SASE Services: MEF Enlarges MEF 3.0 to Define SASE Services, Dramatically Boosting SASE Cause

The MEF’s prime objective of defining SASE instantly strengthens SASE’s prospects in quickly becoming a widely accepted, game-changing service by avoiding the pitfalls that have stymied other promising technologies and services due in good part to their lack of robust standards backing. The establishment of SASE standards are essential to providing certification testing, ensuring interoperability across the digital ecosystem and enabling service providers to avoid or minimize reliance on expensive proprietary solutions.