4 Dec, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
Amazon Aurora Serverless vs. Oracle Autonomous Database: A Microcosm for The Future of IT
On November 29th, Amazon Web Services announced a variety of interesting database announcements at Amazon re:invent. Amazon Neptune, DynamoDB enhancements, and Aurora Serverless. Amalgam found...
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2 Nov, 2017 BY Tom Petrocelli
4 Key Developer Responsibilities Where Machine Learning Can Help
Note: A version of this post was published to Tom's Tech Take II As the fall season of tech conferences starts to wind down, something...
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5 Oct, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
28 Hours as an Industry Analyst at Strata Data 2017
[caption id="attachment_511" align="alignleft" width="150"] grid-725269_640[/caption] Companies Mentioned: Aberdeen Group, Actian, Alation, Arcadia Data, Attunity, BMC, Cambridge Semantics, Cloudera, Databricks, Dataiku, DataKitchen, Datameer, Datarobot, Domino Data...
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5 Oct, 2017 BY Tom Petrocelli
Microsoft: The New Player in Quantum Computing
[caption id="attachment_504" align="alignleft" width="150"] Doppelspalt[/caption] On the week of September 25th, 2017, Microsoft made a huge announcement at its annual Ignite and Envision conference. Microsoft...
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29 Aug, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
IT Asset Management Must Change to Cut SaaS Costs by 30%
[caption id="attachment_414" align="alignleft" width="150"] You Must Change Your Life[/caption] A generation of IT has been trained on the practice of Software Asset Management, which has...
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18 Aug, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
CloudCheckr Makes It Easy to Check AWS S3 Bucket Accessibility
[caption id="attachment_336" align="alignleft" width="150"] Affording the Cloud[/caption] Earlier this week, I was catching up with CloudCheckr for a preliminary briefing on my upcoming Cloud Services...
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10 Aug, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
4 Key Executive ASC 606 Lessons Microsoft Is Teaching Us
[caption id="attachment_374" align="alignleft" width="150"] Revenue (from Pixabay)[/caption] Note: To read Part 1 of Amalgam's coverage of Microsoft's ASC 606 adoption, please check how Microsoft Early...
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17 Jul, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
Machine Learning and the Rise of the REEP: Role-Based Expert Enhancement Platforms
[caption id="attachment_249" align="alignleft" width="211"] Don't fear the REEPer[/caption] Based on Amalgam Insights' discussions with over two dozen enterprise application solutions over the past six weeks,...
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19 Jun, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
CIO Recommendations for HPE Flexible Capacity & Project New Stack
[caption id="attachment_216" align="alignleft" width="300"] Eating the Candy Cloud via Alex Yosifov from Flickr[/caption] Amalgam Insights specializes in Technology Consumption Management with a focus on how...
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25 Apr, 2017 BY Hyoun Park
AI Analyzes Infor’s Intent to Acquire Birst, A Cloud BI Trailblazer
[caption id="attachment_154" align="alignleft" width="150"] World Cloud Information Big Data Data Global[/caption] On April 25th, enterprise application company Infor announced that it planned to acquire Birst,...
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