CrowdStrike Customer Panel Summary 

In the immediate wake of the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage, ETR conducted a survey to capture initial reactions and then returned a month after to assess any continued fallout among IT decision makers. It has now been nearly four months since CrowdStrike’s headline-grabbing outage, and to further gauge the temperature surrounding the security vendor, ETR conducted an Insights panel of CrowdStrike … Read more

2025 Endpoint Observatory Drop

This marks the first annualized comparison to ETR’s recently launched Observatory product, with updated data and a comprehensive report on the Endpoint marketplace looking out to 2025. From this point forward, ETR will have a time series history of the specific Observatory markets and the competing vendors.

ICYMI: ETR Observatory for SASE

In this ETR Observatory, we dive into the market trends, spending intentions, and platform strengths of the top SASE vendors. Discover how the race to capture the SASE market is intensifying as cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for organizations. Review key takeaways and data insights in this summary.

OCT24 Macro Views Findings Report

The October 2024 Macro Views survey, conducted from September 3rd to October 3rd, gathered responses from 1775 IT decision-makers, including participants from 282 Fortune 500 and 417 Global 2000 organizations. Among the respondents, 27% hold C-suite titles, and 49% are at the VP/Director level. Larger organizations accounted for 58% of respondents, while midsize and small … Read more

Preliminary OCT24 TSIS

ETR’s Research Team recently published the October 2024 Early Takeaways, leveraging preliminary data to examine sectors with improving/declining second-half 2024 spending intent, updated IT spending growth, and inflections captured at the vendor level. Check out some highlights in this week’s article, and view the full report on the ETR platform.

Pricing Shenanigans Pushing VMware Customers to Look Elsewhere

As enterprises face growing economic pressures and escalating cloud costs, many are re-evaluating their long-standing vendor relationships. In a recent ETR Insights interview, the Chief Cloud Solutions Architect from a leading IT services firm delves into the impact of VMware’s pricing challenges and the shift towards more adaptable and cost-effective solutions like Nutanix. With cloud adoption on the rise and businesses … Read more

Early Vendor Reactions from the OCT24 TSIS  

As ETR community members continue to submit their updated 2024 spending intentions plans into our OCT24 TSIS survey, we stop to analyze preliminary data trends on a few key vendors. This week, we take a closer look at CrowdStrike, Zscaler, ServiceNow, and Okta. 

ETR Observatory Feedback Panel

ETR Insights presents a panel discussion with four veteran IT executives from the ETR Community. The panel was designed to capture feedback and additional insights related to our recent Observatory report and accompanying data set on Cloud Data Warehouses.

ETR’s Annual Cloud Drill Down Survey 

ETR completed its annual Cloud survey (N = 300) to measure utilization, workloads and spend on cloud providers. This includes public cloud workload share, absolute dollars and spend growth, public vs private distributions, spend drivers, and vendor market share across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and other players in the space. Of the 300 … Read more

ETR Presents: AI Overload

In this standout interview, ETR talks with the Director of Information Technology for a global industrials and manufacturing enterprise, who describes software and hardware price increases from vendors offering little room for negotiation. Read on to see how this company has deployed generative AI across multiple business lines, why they favor best-in-class solutions over bundled … Read more

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