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ETR Insights recently interviewed the Chief Information Security Officer of a large technology organization. Despite the current climate, our guest is expecting a minimum of 5% growth in IT spend at their firm on the organization’s move from SMB to targeting enterprise clients, which comes with a new range of tools, responsibilities, and regulatory requirements. … Read more

Following Cisco’s proposed acquisition of Splunk, ETR quickly launched a drill-down survey to gauge initial customer sentiment, reactions, and perceived impact. The flash survey polled 64 existing Cisco and Splunk clients from large enterprises (1200+ employees), half of which represent Global 2000 organizations. The summary report is linked here, and the full data and detailed results … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview with the IT Solutions Architect for a large financial services enterprise, who discusses their company’s need for more advanced tools and dashboarding options, and the importance of engaging employees with cutting-edge projects and not overworking staff. The interview details this company’s mix of on-premise and cloud solutions, how they are … Read more

Over 1,500 IT decision makers have participated so far in ETR’s October 2023 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), including 269 from Fortune 500 and 376 from Global 2000 organizations. ETR’s Research Team recently published the October 2023 Early Takeaways, leveraging preliminary data to examine sectors with improving/declining 2023 spending intent and initial forecasts for 2024 … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview with the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of a real estate technology company, whose experience as an AI researcher adds welcome color to the ongoing public discussion around OpenAI. This smaller organization’s technology spend is limited as they prefer to build themselves rather than buy new vendors. The organization is … Read more

In a comprehensive ETR panel discussion about the integration of generative AI technologies across different sectors, IT professionals from a municipal government, a tech enterprise, a nonprofit, and a consulting firm discussed using AI for internal data summarization, 3D visualization, automating service desk responses, vetting grant requests, and more. They broadly favor off-the-shelf solutions like … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview with the Vice President of IT and CISO for a business services organization, which is moving back to a physical data center from the public cloud based on cost and security concerns. While this organization is frustrated by Microsoft’s add-on security services, has had mixed experiences with Palo Alto and … Read more

Back in July, ETR collected 2H’23 IT budgets from over 1,700 IT decision makers globally. Now entering the back half of the year, ETR is following up by asking its community of end users for an update on their original 2H’23 IT spending plans (vs. actual 1H’22 spend). While the survey is still in the … Read more

ETR Insights presents an interview with the VP of Business Intelligence, who centralized all data under Snowflake and leverages Azure for Infrastructure-as-a-Service and AI/ML. This company treats data as a direct business line where its CEO personally drives the company’s analytics initiatives. Read on to learn why DataMirror is a more efficient way to clean … Read more

ETR completed its annual Cloud survey with more than 300 select ITDM respondents contributing to the study that measures utilization, workloads, and spending on cloud providers. This includes public cloud workload share, public vs. private distributions, spend drivers, and vendor market share across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and other players in the space.