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In this article, ETR Research analyzes Nutanix’s rising JUL24 TSIS data and finds a directional correlation within VMware accounts. 

ETR recently published the July 2024 Early Takeaways, leveraging preliminary data to examine sectors with improving and declining 2024 spending intent, as well as inflections captured at the vendor level. Last week, we rolled out Part I of the report highlights, and this week, we wrapped up with Part II. As of press time, more than 1700 IT decision makers have participated in ETR’s July 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS). Last week, we kicked off the analysis with some sector and vendor level trends of the best-performing areas and companies in tech. This week, we dive into citation growth trends and our first peek into the macro-level spending data.

In this article, ETR analyzes preliminary JUL24 TSIS data for the best-of-breed Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform vendor that is seeing Net Score declines amidst its SaaS transition.

ETR recently published the July 2024 Early Takeaways, leveraging preliminary data to examine sectors with improving and declining 2024 spending intent, as well as inflections captured at the vendor level. ICYMI, we offer some highlights in this article, and you can view the full report on the ETR platform. To date, over 1,600 IT decision makers have participated in ETR’s July 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS), including 269 from Fortune 500 and 384 from Global 2000 organizations.

ETR Insights presents an interview with the Head of Data Science for a large technology and business services enterprise that adopted generative AI early, though despite initial industry enthusiasm, there is a growing realization that generative AI cannot address deep-seated structural issues; there is a particular discrepancy between executive expectations and the actual capabilities of AI. This executive is skeptical of “prompt engineering” as a distinct discipline, seeing the skills as essentially those of a business analyst. They use both open-source models from OpenAI and select tools like Salesforce Einstein Analytics for specific use cases, within an otherwise generically unified Microsoft tech stack. Pinecone is praised for RAG, a quickly evolving but temperamental alternative to semantic search. Read on to learn more about why this firm still uses both Databricks and Snowflake; the coming disintermediation of ETL and data visualization vendors; and why companies still tend to favor managed solutions like Confluent over developing directly in Apache Kafka.

ETR Insights presents a panel discussion with four IT security executives who give an overview of CNAPP and broader cloud security efforts amid ongoing digital transformation and the rollout of AI. This panel is a follow-up to the existing CNAPP Observatory and accompanying Market Array data.