Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante

Breaking Analysis: Application Performance Management…From Tribal Knowledge to Digital DashboardFor years, application performance monitoring/management (APM) has relied on alerts, logs, traces and even tribal knowledge. In the pre-distributed systems world, this was fine. But things got much more complicated architecturally with cloud and are changing so fast with containers and serverless. Today, it’s much harder to understand the customer experience because it’s difficult to get a full picture of all the data.Read the full research report:https://bit.ly/2FWfN22

Now that Snowflake's IPO has hit, we're getting inundated with inbounds & questions. What have we learned? Is the stock over valued? Can Snowflake grow into its valuation? Should I buy? When should I buy? Can Snowflake compete with the big cloud vendors? In this segment we try to answer these & other questions with opinions backed by data from our friends at Enterprise Technology Research.

Stock market recoil pulls the rug out from many tech investors. Leaving them wondering what’s next? The steepest drop in the stock market since June 11th flipped the narrative and sent investors scrambling. Tech got hammered after a 2-month run and people are asking questions. Is this a bubble popping or a healthy correction? Are we now going to see a rotation into traditional stocks like banks and certain cyclicals that have lagged behind the technology winners?In this week’s Breaking Analysis we want to give you our perspective on what’s happening in the technology space and unpack what this sentiment flips means for the balance of 2020 and beyond. As always we’ll reference survey and model data from ETR to support our opinions. 

Enterprise software markets are dominated by mega cap companies like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft. SaaS leaders like ServiceNow and Workday have solidified their market positions by, to a great extent, replicating the Salesforce model in their respective domains. There is still room for innovative upstarts that are introducing new cloud native services and value pricing models but the traditional space is maturing with possible disruption coming from cloud developers and ecosystems.

Cloud, IAM & Endpoint Security are rocking the markets.Over the past 150 days, everyone in the technology industry has become an expert on COVID in some way shape or form. We have all lived the reality that COVID-19 has accelerated by at least 2 years, many trends that were in motion well before the virus hit. The cyber security sector is no exception and one of the best examples where we have witnessed accelerated change.

While cloud computing is a bright spot in tech spending, the sector is not immune from the effects of COVID-19. Recent ETR survey data shows that the V-shaped recovery in the stock market looks much more like a square root sign for IT spending in 2020. And even the cloud will be negatively impacted, albeit much less so than many other sectors.

Survey data shows robotic process automation (#RPA) solutions remain one of the most attractive investments for business technology buyers-- On par with AI/ML, ahead of containers and cloud computing. In this week's CUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, we introduce new thinking on the Automation TAM & explore the competitive spending dynamics between Automation Anywhere, UiPath, Blue Prism Pegasystems & some giants entering the space like Microsoft SAP and IBM.

According to reports, Snowflake recently filed a confidential IPO document with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission. Sources suggest that Snowflake’s value could be pegged as high as $20B.  In this week’s Breaking Analysis we address five questions that we’ve been getting from theCUBE, Wikibon and ETR communities. ETR’s Erik Bradley provides data and insights from customer roundtable discussions and colleagues David Floyer and George Gilbert contribute additional analysis and insights.

Despite its faster growth in infrastructure-as-a-service relative to AWS and Azure, Google Cloud Platform remains a third wheel in the race for cloud dominance. Google begins its Cloud Next online event starting July 14th in a series of nine rolling sessions through early September. Ahead of that, we want to update you on our most current data on Google’s cloud business. In this week’s Wikibon CUBE Insights, Powered by ETR we’ll review the current state of cloud and Google’s position in the market, updating you on our last report from May of this year. As always, we’ll drill into the ETR data and share fresh insights from our data partner and theCUBE community.

theCUBE host Dave Vellante (@dvellante) shares his analysis of new rules for digital technology events