In its most recent announcement, Cohesity introduced new capabilities that will help its customers go beyond just backup or data consolidation, crossing what I call the “Data Management” chasm.
The fundamental issue with data is that there’s just too much of it, making it expensive to store, manage and truly leverage. At the same time, from a business perspective, data (within compliance reason) should be your friend, not your enemy. (more…)
In order to assess technology spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 810 IT and business 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’ 2018 IT spending as well as their 2019 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or at a business unit/division/branch level.
The world of data protection is changing rapidly. After many years witnessing these changes as a vendor, and now as an analyst, I have developed a maturity model: the backup data transformation model. This model will help both end-users and vendors evaluate their current position and their journey from data backup to autonomous data intelligence and whether they can cross the data management chasm. Did I get your attention? Please read on.
In our most recent edition of Data Protection Conversations, I spoke with Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU. HYCU has a very unique profile with many years of expertise in backup and recovery and a unique strategy to address some of the newest challenges in modern data protection and multi-cloud workloads. Don’t miss this edition and stay tuned for our next Data Protection Conversation.
2018 was a breakout year for AI and machine learning. Practically every vendor has or is working on an AI story, and businesses are looking for the easiest ways to embrace and benefit from the technology as soon as possible to maintain their competitive edge. There have been some amazing and eye-opening stories throughout the year that hint at the future: Google Duplex and an AI assistant making appointments at local businesses over the phone, NVIDIA AI creating faces of fake humans, AI beating doctors in diagnosing cancer, and facial recognition at concerts to catch stalkers. The good news is that we are nowhere near Skynet, and we won’t be there for quite some time, if ever. But the line between hype and reality is starting to blur and 2019 will be a year of applicability, shifting from hype to real-world usage.
The hyperconverged market continued its meteoric rise and exploded in 2018. Virtually every vendor saw growth in their product offerings. The technology is being embraced across all verticals and use cases, and for customers, its yielding real business benefits. With the expectation that market adoption will continue to rise in 2019, here are a few things I’m expecting to impact the HCI market.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is intersecting with a broad set of emerging technologies and becoming a crucial part of digital transformation strategies for companies across all industries. Digital industrial transformation must occur across three dimensions: business value transformation, enterprise technology transformation, and ecosystem transformation. A new ecosystem for IoT is emerging, one that includes traditional IT giants, mobile and wireless industry players, and IoT-specific vendors and that requires rethinking approaches to products, innovation processes, organizational structures, market messaging, and channels.