Insight Type: Research Note

Google Cloud announces the general availability of Its Cloud VMware Engine which validates VMware as an industry standard for virtualization and gives Google more clout in the booming cloud market.
Rumors have emerged of a possible takeover of ARM by NVIDIA. What would this mean for ARM and for Semiconductors in general?
Microsoft reported its first full quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic and the company overall delivered a solid performance once again.
At Microsoft’s Inspire event the company highlighted its Return to Workplace offering, with investments intended to help clients and partners build and enable resilient organizations around the world as we collectively shift to a digital first mindset. Already a significant player in the enterprise workforce, the continued strengthening of its various offerings, all designed to seamlessly work together, serve the myriad needs across the enterprise, as well as in the partner ecosystem, means that organizations don’t have to look outside the Microsoft solution set to do what it is they need to do. I would guess this makes other SaaS providers nervous, and rightfully so.
IBM and Adobe have partnered to deliver customer experience and data management in the cloud for regulated industries. Diving into the partnership objectives.
Allscripts and Microsoft Corp. announces a five-year extension to their strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions.
Given how much more utility a new laptop (on which Zoom will work just fine) will provide that worker, the question becomes obvious: why would any IT department spend $599 apiece for these standalone devices when similarly-priced laptops will run Zoom just as well?
Performance improvements aside, I can’t help but sense that the android smartwatch ecosystem is being somewhat hamstrung by a lack of interest, perhaps from Google, to really focus on beating Apple at its own game.
At this year's Microsoft partner event, Inspire, the company announced a series of important updates to dynamics 365 and the Power Platform
Oracle Cloud has partnered with the NIH to build a COVID-19 Volunteer Screening Registry in order to screen millions of volunteers eager to participate in hundreds of clinical trials by year’s end. This will no doubt put Oracle’s cloud capabilities to the test — we’re betting the company is up for the challenge.
The massive Twitter hack this past week was a wake-up call for many of the vulnerabilities our collective reliance on social media channels presents. Here is a short overview of the specifics that have been uncovered as a result of investigation by the FBI, lawmakers, cybersecurity experts and Twitter itself, as well as what the impact of a hack of this nature means for CISOs and their security vendor partners.
As we head into another big season of tech earnings, IBM is leading off providing a look ahead as to how tech fared amidst a rampant global pandemic.

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