Summary: Fortinet and Early Adopter Research have extended Fortinet’s 100 Coins research into designing and optimizing a cybersecurity portfolio. The resulting report captures detailed thinking from three leading CISOs about how to make the difficult decisions and tradeoffs when allocating a fixed amount of money across a portfolio. This article summarizes Fortinet CISO Phil Quade’s […]
In a recent edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested […]
In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested in. […]
Semantic standards have been with us since the birth of the web, when it became clear to inventors of the web like Tim Berners-Lee and many others that meaning could be systematically captured, organized, and exploited to do valuable tasks. Since then, the idea of applying formal semantics to enterprise data has come and faded […]
It is time to gain power in your Oracle relationship. Welcome to the “Escape Hatch from Oracle” home page, which summarizes the ongoing stream of content dedicated to educating the IT world about how best to manage, evolve, and if necessary, escape from a relationship with Oracle. The content is in this research mission is […]
For the past few years, as an analyst, blogger, and consultant, I have studied the way that Oracle has licensed its products and conducted audits to ensure compliance. I have worked with companies who help improve negotiating leverage, provide services for supporting and migrating from Oracle products, and talked to many executives who have become […]
The Escape Hatch from Oracle research mission is designed to help companies gain power in their negotiations with Oracle. As reported in other Episodes of this Research Mission and in our other writing, Oracle’s unique licensing model is designed to give Oracle the upper hand in negotiations. This article offers a framework to assess your […]
On a recent episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era […]
On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era and […]
If you follow what’s going on in the world of technology that implements a modern data supply chain, then Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, announced on June 6, was big news. From most reporting on this acquisition you get the impression that Google bought Looker to help its cloud offerings. But details on how […]
