Enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) have existed for about 20 years, serving as the foundation of insight-driven organizations, delivering timely analysis and reporting of structured data; handling large analytics workloads; and supporting the high levels of concurrency that organizations demand. But while EDWs have been a familiar presence in many organizations, as companies look to reduce their data center footprints, increase organizational agility, and incorporate as much data as possible into their analytics workflows, the architectural rigidity, complexity, and cost of traditional EDWs have paved the way for modern data warehouses to better respond to the dynamic needs of the business.
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Last week, Pure Storage announced some very impressive fourth quarter earnings results. Some highlights include:- Q4 revenue $492.0 million, up 17% year-over-year.
- Full-year revenue $1.643 billion, up 21% year-over-year.
- Q4 GAAP gross margin 70.8%; Full-year GAAP gross margin 69.0%.
- Full-year free cash flow was $101.7 million, up 59% year-over-year.
- Pure added more than 500 new customers in the quarter, reaching over 7,500 total customers. (more…)
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As organizations look for better ways to integrate, analyze, visualize, and leverage insights from constantly growing data sets, the rise of the cloud has garnered significant interest and traction in the analytics space. The cloud offers numerous enterprise-class attributes that make it more appealing than on-premises environments for organizations, whether they are looking to embrace a data-driven culture or align specific technology to a single line of business.
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Informatica, a leader in enterprise cloud data management, recently announced several enterprise data management enhancements across its unified, AI-powered Intelligent Data Platform to promote agility, efficiency, and productivity. Updates include next-generation analytics, an AI-powered data catalog, cloud and hybrid updates for AWS and MS Azure provisioning and autoscaling, data governance, privacy, 360 engagement, and a customer success portal.
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While ransomware is not a new cyber-threat, largely entering the cybersecurity scene in 2016 and 2017 with a number of high-profile attacks, research conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group reveals that a majority of organizations continued to experience ransomware attacks in 2019, representing a concern for both business and IT leadership teams. The research further reveals the prominence of cybersecurity insurance policies, and the relationship between ransomware payouts and those companies that hold these policies. A subset of organizations with cybersecurity insurance report that their providers are advising, and possibly even pressuring, them to pay cyber ransoms, further fueling the success rates and the economy built around ransomware. This disturbing trend sets the stage for the continuance of ransomware, and an opportunity for criminals to exploit those organizations that have engaged with cybersecurity insurance companies.
For more information or to discuss these findings with an analyst, please contact us.
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The edge, or the internet of things (IoT), is the next technology frontier. Though edge environments have existed for some time, it has recently become the wild west of technology, one defined by many harsh realities and a new ramp in investment, as businesses look for the next digital goldmine.
Nearly four out of ten (38%) storage decision makers believe IoT workloads will be a top driver of on-premises storage spending growth over the next 24 months, with one-third (33%) identifying IoT workloads for cloud storage spending over that same time period. IT is preparing for an onslaught of data growth resulting from these workloads, but how are IT vendors poised to address these needs of businesses at the edge?
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Most enterprises have many decentralized locations and sometimes operate a model where there is no real “central” data center. Our research shows that these ROBO topologies are particularly sensitive to data protection challenges—for example, at organizations with many branches (retail, food chains, gas stations, etc.). -
Organizations are turning to AI technologies to enhance their data analytics capabilities and address the real-time needs of the business through faster, more accurate predictive insights. But between skills gaps, limited collaboration, and ineffective or minimally available tooling, organizations are looking for help. Cloudera has introduced Cloudera Machine Learning as the next evolution of their proven Cloudera Data Science Workbench to provide organizations with the help they need to achieve success in leapfrogging the competition using AI.
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In order to assess technology spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 658 IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western Europe. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organizations’ 2019 IT spending as well as their 2020 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or at a business unit/division/branch level.
Survey participants represented a wide range of industries including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications and media, retail, government, and business services.
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Version 10 is going GA with the usual fanfare that great marketing companies such as Veeam know how to orchestrate, but it’s different this time. Something is changing.In the past, and despite our most respectful recriminations, Veeam would pre-announce new versions and sometimes over-hype their capabilities. Hard to stop the Veeam marketing machine when it’s in launch mode!! I have seen it both on the vendor side as a competitor (with secret admiration) and on the analyst side at ESG.
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This week IBM announced an update to its FlashSystem storage portfolio. While new flash storage releases have become somewhat commonplace lately, thinking that IBM’s FlashSystems are just systems with flash does them a huge disservice. IBM has integrated some game-changing software innovation into its FlashSystems. While much of this technology has been in there for a while, the benefits extend far beyond the average storage system. -
A chasm exists between traditional “dumb” data backup, in which data is only moved around but not leveraged to drive or support business outcomes, and data management, in which data is better understood and reused for other technical or business purposes. The data protection space is undergoing a fundamental shift from traditional backup and recovery with the emergence of more autonomous AI-based solutions.
In order to understand how this confluence of changes is creating a dichotomy between currently available solutions and end-users’ desired data protection state in the next few years, ESG surveyed 359 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) responsible for data protection technology decisions for their organization.
Last week, Pure Storage announced some very impressive fourth quarter 
The edge, or the internet of things (IoT), is the next technology frontier. Though edge environments have existed for some time, it has recently become the wild west of technology, one defined by many harsh realities and a new ramp in investment, as businesses look for the next digital goldmine.
Most enterprises have many decentralized locations and sometimes operate a model where there is no real “central” data center. Our research shows that these ROBO topologies are particularly sensitive to data protection challenges
Version 10 is going GA with the usual fanfare that great marketing companies such as Veeam know how to orchestrate, but it’s different this time. Something is changing.
This week IBM announced an update to its