This Enterprise Strategy Group Brief will review some key predictions for 2020 in the artificial intelligence space, from skills gaps and actionable AI to chatbots and natural language processing.
Data Management, Analytics & AI
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Dreamforce 2019 just kicked off in San Francisco. What an event and a great boost to the local economy: lots of people, celebrity speakers, lots of vendors, and many locations around the Moscone Center to accommodate the many sessions and events. A forest theme was selected this year – a forest in the middle of the urban forest – with cute characters including a bear…the same bear I am going to poke in this blog entry.Salesforce is a formidable player, a trailblazer (check the little guy’s shirt!) that made SaaS what it is today. It’s a great success by any stretch of the imagination.
SaaS is an interesting space that we study closely here at ESG, and we see a big disconnect when it comes to backup and recovery, and many challenges with Salesforce specifically. 33% of respondents to our cloud data strategies survey believe that SaaS-based applications don’t need to be backed up, and 37% solely rely on the SaaS vendor because they are responsible for protecting the organization’s SaaS-resident application data.
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HYCU just announced a set of new capabilities for its Google Cloud Platform service. In this latest release, the company is placing the focus on delivering further enhancements to its native enterprise-class capabilities in/for GCP. This is something other vendors should look at closely with a competitive eye. Here’s why: In combination, the enhancements to the service scream enterprise scalability. Remember that a service is a lot easier to quickly and constantly “upgrade” for a vendor versus a legacy approach, which makes HYCU very nimble. -
Enterprise Strategy Group’s data protection team delivers its 2020 predictions. The backup and recovery market is at full effervescence and at the cusp of many changes.
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Commvault GO is taking place this week in Denver and I am attending the event with a couple of ESG colleagues. The company is vastly different from the one we saw last year, to say the least: New leadership, a significant acquisition under its belt (its first actually), a new backup service, and a roadmap full of goodies for end-users. Commvault is not changing, it has already changed. The company is actively morphing into its next phase of evolution which will come with some adjustments to its go to market.
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ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.
This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on the current processes for and technology approaches to securing business applications and email messaging platforms.
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It was time. Splunk was waiting for the next-generation, cloud-native application architectures to evolve to a point where it could pounce. And pounce Splunk did, scooping up SignalFx for $1.05 billion. This dwarfs previous acquisitions by Splunk over the last couple years, which acquired security automation and orchestration platform Phantom for $350 million, and DevOps incident management VictorOps for $120 million. -
ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.
This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on the current people, process, and technology approaches to supporting data analytics activities, including business intelligence, enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, and public cloud-based services.
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ESG research shows that cloud data protection has hit the stratosphere, with a significant acceleration in the past three years. Organizations see cloud as having a positive impact on their data protection strategies in general, and backup data is increasingly shifting to cloud. Cloud-based VMs are also perceived to be more resilient than on-premises. Founded in 2017, Clumio was built in the public cloud and is headed by Poojan Kumar, Clumio CEO, ex Oracle Exadata Co-founder, Pernix Data CEO, and Nutanix VP Engineering and Products. Investors include some well-known names in the industry. The company announced $51 million in funding. This combination of investors, funding, and experienced leadership is worth noting, as I am sure competitors have. -
The HPE buying spree continued Wednesday afternoon, as they scooped up big data vendor MapR. This comes on the heels of the recent BlueData acquisition, and to a lesser extent, Cray. And with each HPE acquisition, the strategy is clear as day – data is the crown jewel and HPE will help you gain value from it with a holistic approach that covers hardware, software, and services. HPE is becoming a one-stop shop for all things data, and they are prioritizing simplicity. They recognize that organizations are at different stages of their analytics and AI journeys, and need help every step of the way. By incorporating MapR technology, they’ll be capable of inserting themselves much earlier in the analytics and AI journey. -
In this latest edition of Data Protection Conversations, I speak with David Chang, Senior Vice President of Products at Actifio. We discuss the company’s data protection announcements from Actifio Data Driven 2019, held in Boston.
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I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avon Puri, Rubrik’s CIO and Sveta Shandilya, Rubrik’s Head of IT Planning and Operations. The company has also recently made a significant IT hire in Rinki Sethi, who joined as CISO.
I was curious to know how a fast growing “digital-native” organization (i.e., 10 years or less of existence – Rubrik was founded in 2014) leverages its own technology and for what purposes. You know, the old “dog food” concept.
How do you go in five years from a few to over 1500 employees, keep introducing data protection solutions to the market, and make the whole thing work? (more…)
Dreamforce 2019 just kicked off in San Francisco. What an event and a great boost to the local economy: lots of people, celebrity speakers, lots of vendors, and many locations around the Moscone Center to accommodate the many sessions and events. A forest theme was selected this year – a forest in the middle of the urban forest – with cute characters including a bear…the same bear I am going to poke in this blog entry.
HYCU just announced a set of new capabilities for its Google Cloud Platform service. In this latest release, the company is placing the focus on delivering further enhancements to its native enterprise-class capabilities in/for GCP. This is something other vendors should look at closely with a competitive eye. Here’s why: In combination, the enhancements to the service scream enterprise scalability. Remember that a service is a lot easier to quickly and constantly “upgrade” for a vendor versus a legacy approach, which makes HYCU very nimble.
Commvault GO is taking place this week in Denver and I am attending the event with a couple of ESG colleagues. 
It was time. Splunk was waiting for the next-generation, cloud-native application architectures to evolve to a point where it could pounce. And pounce Splunk did, scooping up SignalFx for $1.05 billion. This dwarfs previous acquisitions by Splunk over the last couple years, which acquired security automation and orchestration platform Phantom for $350 million, and DevOps incident management VictorOps for $120 million.
ESG research shows that cloud data protection has hit the stratosphere, with a significant acceleration in the past three years. Organizations see cloud as having a positive impact on their data protection strategies in general, and backup data is increasingly shifting to cloud. Cloud-based VMs are also perceived to be more resilient than on-premises. Founded in 2017, 
The HPE buying spree continued Wednesday afternoon, as they scooped up big data vendor MapR. This comes on the heels of the recent BlueData acquisition, and to a lesser extent, Cray. And with each HPE acquisition, the strategy is clear as day – data is the crown jewel and HPE will help you gain value from it with a holistic approach that covers hardware, software, and services. HPE is becoming a one-stop shop for all things data, and they are prioritizing simplicity. They recognize that organizations are at different stages of their analytics and AI journeys, and need help every step of the way. By incorporating MapR technology, they’ll be capable of inserting themselves much earlier in the analytics and AI journey.