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Editor’s note: What’s the different between hybrid cloud and hybrid information technology? And how are they driving digital transformation? Analyst Cassandra Mooshian, the senior cloud analyst at Technology Business Research, explains. What is the difference between hybrid cloud and hybrid IT, and how does that relate to digital transformation? Hybrid cloud is the composition of two or more clouds, either public or private, that remain separate but integrated to ensure data can flow seamlessly between them. Hybrid IT is similar but is the combination of cloud and on-premises technologies. In both cases, the key aspect is the integration. This...

Implementing all the changes hitting tech companies in communications technology “is akin to changing the wheels on the bus when it is moving full speed down a mountain pass,” says Technology Business Research analyst Michael Sullivan-Trainor. In a Q&A, Sullivan-Trainor, who is an executive analyst in TBR’s Telecom Practice. Michael specializes in telecom vendor and operator research, and helps set overall research direction, talks about the changes sweeping the communications sector. He leverages his 25 years of experience in the telecom industry to provide thought leadership and insight in syndicated and project work. What are the opportunities and challenges...

Editor’s note: Jen Hamel is a senior analyst in TBR’s Professional Services Practice, where she is responsible for coverage of IBM Global Services, with additional focus on IBM’s healthcare IT services and management consulting businesses. Hamel also launched TBR’s Analytics & Insights Professional Services coverage, which includes customer research and market forecast reports and a vendor benchmark. Here’s a Q&A with Hamel about trends she sees in analytics and professional services: TBR: What do you see as the major trends in the areas you cover? Jen: My research focus is analytics and insights (A&I) professional services, which include consulting,...

Editor’s note: EMC is banking on a new cloud architecture as the next step in its tech evolution, concludes a team of analysts from Technology Business Research which attended the recent EMC World event. As they point out in this final of four reports, EMC faces many changes as it gears up for a merger with Dell. HAMPTON, N.H. – In an effort to better accommodate cloud-native customers, EMC announced its Native Hybrid Cloud architecture, a full cloud stack that offers IaaS and PaaS on top of EMC converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. The composability of the cloud stack, which...

Editor’s note: The digital revolution necessitates business practice modernization for EMC, its partners and its customers, concludes a team of analysts from Technology Business Research which attended the recent EMC World event. As they point out in this third of four reports, EMC faces many changes as it gears up for a merger with Dell. HAMTPON, N.H. – In his last address at EMC World as CEO, Joe Tucci opened his remarks by making comparisons between the industrial revolution — or the start of the manufacturing economy — and the digital revolution, or the start of the IP-based knowledge economy....

Editor’s note: Last week at EMC World, the tech giant disclosed much more than plans for the company post-merger with privately held Dell when chairman Michael Dell renames the combined company Dell Technologies. EMC is hardly disappearing with new products and services coming, note a team of analysts from Technology Business Research. In part two of an in-depth analysis, TBR looks at how EMC is building a data bridge to meet client needs now – and the next generation to come. EMC positions to bridge customers’ current and next-generation data environments HAMPTON, N.H. – EMC appears to recognize the...

Editor’s note: Analysis: Last week at EMC World, the tech giant disclosed much more than plans for the company post-merger with privately held Dell when chairman Michael Dell renames the combined company Dell Technologies. EMC, which has a big presence in the research Triangle area with manufacturing, data center and R&D centers, is hardly disappearing with new products and services coming, note a team of analysts from Technology Business Research. TBR contributors to this multi-part report include: Christian Perry, Geoff Woollacott, Krista Macomber and Andrew Smith. HAMPTON, N.H. – Amid extensive IT disruption fueled by the ongoing customer desire...

Editor’s note: Sever and related data center hardware revenues are shrinking. Proprietary server and storage revenues, for example, fell 7.7 percent last year. But there are areas for growth, such as flash storage. That’s big news for Lenovo, HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell, EMC, Cisco and others. Why? Technology advances and changes in customer demand are forcing changes in the data center server market, according to a new report from Technology Business Research. HAMPTON, N.H. –  According to Technology Business Research, Inc.’s (TBR) 4Q15 Data Center Benchmark,benchmarked vendors’ average revenue and gross profit slipped year-to-year as demand for legacy hardware...