Dave Vellante
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The first “modern” trade show was held in 1851. Many things have changed — and some haven’t but should. For years, marketers have been pushing for a bigger digital component especially with their big conferences. We’ve heard forward thinking chief marketing officers say, …
Analysis: Here are five strategic options for Dell and VMware
Now that it’s apparent Dell Technologies Inc. is evaluating what to do with its majority share of VMware Inc., we’ve identified five strategic options for Dell and VMware that we believe are under consideration. They are: Buy the remaining approximately 19% of VMware …
Emerging tech firms face COVID-19 headwinds as buyers choose ‘safe bets’
Emerging technology companies face a tougher road ahead as the pandemic sends information technology buyers to what they view as safer bets. That’s a key finding of the latest survey from Enterprise Technology Research’s Emerging Technology Study. This trend continues the theme we …
The pandemic economy’s cybersecurity tailwinds: Who’s sailing, who’s stalling?
The isolation economy growing out of the coronavirus pandemic has created substantial tailwinds for certain cybersecurity companies — but not all of them. Notably, as of the big stock market selloff on June 11, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are off 11% …
How Snowflake is challenging the cloud-native database giants
A new class of workloads is emerging in the cloud. Early cloud was all about infrastructure-as-a-service — spinning up storage, compute and networking resources to support startups, application development and testing, software as a service and eventually moving more business workloads into the …
Most CIOs now expect a U-shaped recovery from COVID-19 pandemic
Most chief information officers now expect a U-shaped recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s a key finding of the latest flash survey data from Enterprise Technology Research, which specifically finds that 44% of information technology executives believe revenue declines will …
Robotic process automation adoption looks strong in a post-COVID world
We’ve been reporting that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a bifurcated information technology spending outlook — and now it’s clear that automation is emerging as one winner. Legacy on-premises infrastructure and traditional software licensing models are giving way to approaches that enable …
How the race among the Big Three public clouds is shaping up in the COVID-19 era
Analysis from company earnings reports and customer surveys continues to show that Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are closing the gap on Amazon Web Services’ cloud dominance. Although reporting definitions of cloud remain fuzzy, it’s clear that the Big three U.S. …
To have and have not: Pandemic spurs a split in tech spending
As COVID-19 has disrupted so many aspects of everyday life, the spreading pandemic has also created a bifurcated information technology spending climate. Several vendors taking advantage of cloud and work from home tailwinds are thriving, while others relying on legacy stacks and …
Big Blue in the cloud? IBM’s future rests on its innovation agenda
IBM Corp.’s new chief executive has an opportunity to reset the direction of the company. Outgoing CEO Ginni Rommety inherited a strategy put in place over two decades, which fossilized into a lower-margin services-led model that she helped architect. Rometty spent a large portion of …