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The first Friday of each month means the latest Bloor newsletter has landed. In August's edition, we focus on cybersecurity with Fran Howarth, Red Hat's acquisition by IBM with David Terrar and take a look at Scale Computing's hyper-converged infrastructure systems with Paul Bevan.
Don't forget to subscribe and receive the email to your inbox every month! #newsletter #technews #cybersecurity #infrastructure #cloudcomputing

As we approach a new decade, multi-model databases are becoming increasingly popular. Bloor's latest white paper from Philip Howard discusses these in general, and Redis Labs in particular.
#MutableBusiness #OperationalDatabases #nosql

Bloor's latest Market Update from Philip Howard focuses on hybrid real-time data processing.
There are multiple ways in which databases that support real-time operational/transactional and analytic processing may be implemented, and this report compares representative samples of each.
Congratulations to Aerospike, MongoDB and Redis Labs for their Platinum #MutableBusiness awards, and also to GridGain Systems, InterSystems, Neo4j and TigerGraph for their Gold #MutableBusiness awards!

Limited, or no, technological capability with respect to AI is holding many companies back. Philip Howard's latest InDetail paper discusses how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can help. #MutableBusiness

We are very excited to announce that the first episodes of #BloorTV are now available to watch online.
We are working in partnership with Disruptive Live 📺 to bring you top opinion, discussion and analysis around key issues, trends and products in the world of technology. We've got big things planned and plenty more episodes to come, so would love to hear your feedback! 💬
#MutableBusiness #technology

A couple of huge acquisitions took place in the world of analytics and business intelligence yesterday. Salesforce have acquired Tableau Software and Logi Analytics have acquired Zoomdata.
Bloor's Philip Howard looks at what the news means, and offers his reaction to the announcement that Tableau will continue to operate as an independent company.
"My experience suggests that statements such as those made by Tableau and Salesforce are in good faith. They genuinely believe th...at they can make this work. All history suggests that they can’t." #MutableBusiness
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We're thrilled to be working in partnership with Disruptive Live to launch Bloor TV, which will bring analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes. #MutableBusiness

No Code is a major cultural change from Low Code and may be what the #MutableBusiness needs. Bloor's David Norfolk looks at the differing approaches to generating business outcomes.

Bloor's David Norfolk explores OpusView from IdeasCast, a project management, productivity, collaboration and social toolkit, promoting 'Project Social', for general 'wellness' in the workplace. #MutableBusiness

Privileged access security technologies have become mission critical as they protect the underlying infrastructure of any organisation. Bloor's Fran Howarth reports from CyberArk #CYBRImpact, where privileged account security was the main topic of discussion: #MutableBusiness

Using Software Defined Networking, Megaport are proving that complex issues of wide area networking and multi-cloud connectivity needn’t be complicated. Check out Paul Bevan's latest blog: #MutableBusiness

We get an update about Guavus from Philip Howard. Having been acquired by Thales Group in 2017, they themselves acquired SQLstream, Inc. last year, providing Thales with IoT based capabilities across all implementations:

So Philip Howard has been anticipating Teradata Vantage, the final series of Game of Thrones and Avengers Endgame for a long time. Now all three are here at once, what does he think of Vantage?
#MutableBusiness

Bloor's Philip Howard goes InDetail on Experian SCV - a practical, easy to use and (relatively) low cost approach to an issue that is top of mind for many organisations: #MutableBusiness

In his latest blog post, Bloor's Philip Howard takes a look at Incorta, whose 'hyperconverged data warehousing platform' doesn't fall in to an obvious, or easily defined niche:
#MutableBusiness

By 2025, the era of IT functions and CIOs needing costly, time-consuming and disruptive investments will be over, replaced by architecture that is cheaper, flexible and rapidly responsive. Bloor's Paul Bevan explores #ArchOps #MutableBusiness

There are various ways to approach a merger or acquisition. Bloor's Philip Howard looks at the differing ways Cloudera and Micro Focus took on separate mergers recently: #MutableBusiness

We take an InPerspective look at IBM's Blockchain as a Service. Blockchain expert David Terrar explores how this new distributed ledger technology addresses the fundamental issue underlying all trade, commerce and the exchange of assets - trust:
#blockchain #IBM #hyperledger #MutableBusiness