Insight Type: Research Note

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.
ADI is heading into headwinds in attaining full value from the network infrastructure silicon portion of the Maxim portfolio and is dealing with significant supply chain assimilation challenges, thereby dampening the upside of the overall deal. ADI needs to prioritize touting new wins in the network infrastructure segment (i.e., data center, 5G communications) post-merger to allay addressable market concerns and likewise rapidly implement its supply chain optimization strategy.
Oracle announced a series of updates to its Fusion ERP and EPM to enable better business resuilts amidst the pandemics and challenging economy.
In the ongoing story of Dell Technologies considering a spin off of VMware, the company furthered speculation with the filing of a schedule 13D.
Grow with Google is designed to help jumpstart the economy by helping workers learn skills that will make them more appealing to employers (college degrees not required), and also to help employers fill what is often a gigantic skills gap. As part of this initiative, Google is offering grants, offering apprenticeship positions at Google, expanding its IT Certificate Employer Consortium and more. The future of work continues to be about an always-learning mindset, individually and in the business world, and this is another way Big Tech is stepping up to make that possible.
Amazon recently announced that AWS IoT SiteWise will be available to all AWS customers in certain regions soon. SiteWise is a managed service that gathers and organizes data in a way that helps industrial customers make informed decisions when it comes to monitoring facility operations, making new applications, improving production, determining performance metrics, and more. We expect to be hearing much more about AWS IoT SiteWise in the months to come.
Oracle has announced its most recent updates to its Oracle Supply Chain Cloud Management tool including some important changes for users.
The AT&T and Cisco partnership affirms that service providers are improving their SD-WAN offerings, particularly addressing the security concerns among enterprise adopters. Now AT&T and Cisco must show their integrated approach will accelerate broader adoption of SD-WAN services in the emerging SASE and 5G era.

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