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On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Stan Lowe, chief information security officer at a global level for Zscaler, while both were at RSA 2020. This continues a series of interviews Woods conducted that focus on four key questions about cybersecurity. These questions […]

March 23, 2020

As noted in the previous article in this series, Oracle’s continuous innovation support model has received scant coverage. In fact, many companies that now use this model may not even realize that it is one of the biggest changes to enterprise support since the advent of SaaS and third-party support. In our previous article we […]

March 17, 2020

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods continues his series of interviews from RSA 2020 by sitting down with Jeff Hussey and Bryan Skene from Tempered. Their conversation focused on Woods’ key cybersecurity questions for 2020, which include: Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to […]

March 16, 2020

Note: This is a long-form article by Dan Woods for Early Adopter Research, sponsored by Qlik. Introduction It is an amazing time to be involved in the world of data management and analytics. The world seems to be rapidly moving toward a new synthesis of existing capabilities. This synthesis combines past victories in the realms […]

March 11, 2020

On this new episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Eyal Hayardeny from Reblaze. Their conversation occurred at RSA 2020 and focused on cybersecurity platforms. They discussed Woods’ four questions for the conference, which include: Have platforms and cybersecurity been slower to develop than in […]

March 9, 2020

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