Q&As

At RSA 2019, Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Dan Woods met with a number of cybersecurity experts and asked them a range of questions about the current cybersecurity landscape. In one such interview, for the EAR Podcast, he spoke with Scott Petry, the CEO of Authentic8. This is an edited version of the conversation that can […]

March 29, 2019

At the RSA 2019 Conference this year, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods spoke with a number of cybersecurity professionals. One conversation was with Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black. Woods asked Kellermann about his three key cybersecurity questions for 2019 and delved into the future of cybersecurity in general. This is an edited […]

March 27, 2019

At this year’s RSA conference, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods sat down for a podcast conversation with Michael Covington, VP of product strategy for Wandera. They discussed a number of topics, including an overview of what Wandera does. Woods also asked Covington about his three key cybersecurity questions for 2019. This is an edited version […]

March 25, 2019

At this year’s RSA Conference, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods conducted a podcast with Stan Lowe from Zscaler. Lowe is the Global CISO for Zscaler and their conversation covered three big questions about cybersecurity in 2019. This is an edited version of their conversation that you can listen to in full on the podcast. Woods: […]

March 21, 2019

Recently, Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Dan Woods had the chance to sit down and have a conversation for the EAR Podcast with Howard Morgan of First Round Capital about digital transformation. Their conversation covered the history of digital transformation and how it fits into the larger story of technological change in general. This is an […]

March 19, 2019

In a recent episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Rob Woollen, the CEO and cofounder of Sigma Computing, about designing enterprise platforms. Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business […]

March 6, 2019

The Early Adopter Research Podcast covers a wide array of topics from cybersecurity to big data governance. In a recent episode, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods focused on designing enterprise platforms with two professors from the ESSEC Business School, Thomas Huber and Thomas Kude. The conversation focused on the way that platform governance can influence and […]

February 12, 2019

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Palisade Compliance’s CEO Craig Guarente about Oracle’s increasing practice of auditing its customers for their use of Java. Recently, Oracle has focused its innovation as much or more on licensing and audit practices as it has on technology. It seems a lot […]

January 29, 2019

What is a startup? For a term that is used as frequently as it is, when you take a step back to consider it, and speak with those in the tech industry, you find the definition varies from person to person more than you might expect. Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods has written about this […]

January 17, 2019

The database market has experienced a remarkable level of innovation over the past few decades. In a recent interview for the Early Adopter Research podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, about the history of the modern database market. The conversation covered the beginnings of databases, how they’ve evolved, […]

January 15, 2019