Blogs & Articles

Given the state of the cybersecurity landscape here’s an interesting thesis: Managed Services firms will lead the creation of broader, integrated cybersecurity platforms. This idea came out of the podcast interviews I’ve done at RSA 2020 in San Francisco. After talking to Esentire, Reblaze, Tempered, and Sonrai Security, I have made a ton of progress […]

February 26, 2020

What’s Blocking Comprehensive Platforms for Cybersecurity? Here’s my research topic for RSA 2020 in San Francisco. Enterprise software goes through a predictable cycle in which point solutions are gathered into suites and then many suites are unified in platforms. For many domains, this offers customers the benefits of a broad set of integrated capabilities that […]

February 18, 2020

Every Oracle customer should pay close attention to the way that our friends in Redwood Shores have reorganized their support model to address a variety of forces that will reshape the enterprise software landscape in the next decade. There is a model that has been around for a few years, but has received little (if […]

February 18, 2020

In recent years, software vendors increasingly have shifted the model for purchasing software from a perpetual license followed by a stream of maintenance to a subscription model in which software is sold as a subscription renewable on an intermittent basis. There are advantages for both vendors and customers with each model. With a subscription model, […]

December 16, 2019

As we’ve documented through the Escape Hatch from Oracle research mission, using and working with Oracle has both advantages and drawbacks. Oracle offers an array of high-quality products that are vital to many enterprises across industries. Companies have come to depend on using Oracle software to run mission-critical operations. But the way Oracle antagonizes its […]

December 11, 2019

If you listen to Oracle’s quarterly earnings calls, you might get the impression that all is right in the world of Oracle cloud. After all, it was just last year in Q4 2018 when Oracle announced that it had seen growth in its cloud adoption and had $1.7 billion in cloud revenue for the quarter. […]

October 17, 2019

The world of Oracle is often like the seemingly bucolic suburban town depicted in Stranger Things: often, things are not what they seem and what’s right might be unusual in another context. Recently, I had another conversation with Craig Guarente, CEO and Founder of Palisade Compliance, who I’ve interviewed frequently in the past for our […]

October 16, 2019

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about patching with Renee Tarun, VP of Information Security at Fortinet. She is one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade entitled The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the […]

October 11, 2019

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more […]

October 10, 2019

The Escape Hatch from Oracle Research Mission takes a close look at the state of Oracle in the market. As stated in our Research Mission Declaration, one impetus for this mission is to inspire Oracle to pull back from some of its aggressive tactics, especially regarding audits. Our position is that Oracle has damaged its […]

October 10, 2019