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Catching Up with Hurwitzamp Associates It is indeed an interesting time in the computerindustry The two key drivers of the market today arethe explosive growth of cloud computing combinedwith machine learning and Artificial Intelligence It isno accident that these forces are happening intandem Machine learning and AI techniques at scaleare neither practical nor affordable without cloudcomputing Cloud computing is changing the speed ofimplementing new software and new business modelsYou might say that this is already evident and bakedinto our understanding of the trajectory of technologyevolution This is absolutely true However this is onlythe beginning of the journey to a new generation ofcomputing Later this month our team will present our predictionsfor 2019 Here is a sneak preview The mostimportant issues of 2019 will be data quality andgovernance and the growing importance of cloudservice portability via containers Both these trendswill generate huge growth in data integrity and multi-cloud management We are quite fortunate at Hurwitzamp Associates that the focus of our research writingand analysis are on these trends Needless to say ourteam has been busy To keep you up to date I want tomention two key announcements

Team Changes and Additions

First Dan Kirsch principal analyst for the last sevenyears at Hurwitz amp Associates has been promoted toManaging Director Danrsquos depth of knowledge in cloudsecurity MLAI and governance has made him aleader In addition Dan has provided invaluableleadership to our team We are also pleased to announce that Fred Dalrymplehas joined our team as a senior analyst andconsultant Fred is a technologist with extensiveexperience in product and marketing management foradvanced software development open software anddata management He has deep expertise in software

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Cognitive Computing andBig Data Analytics

architecture and development enterprise softwarecloud computing e-commerce storage and businessprocess analytics Fred has held managementmarketing professional services and productmanagement roles at companies including Red HatPerot Systems Bell Laboratories and Intralinks Hehas acted as an advisor to numerous emergingcompanies Fred holds BA and MS degrees inComputer Science and a BA in Philosophy fromNorthwestern University To connect with Fred or set-up a briefing please reach out to him atfreddalrympleHurwitzcom

New Offerings

Along with these changes Hurwitz amp Associates hasembarked on several new service offerings Here arethe first two that wersquod like to announce Hurwitz OnCall for Emerging Companies Wersquovelistened We have many clients that have fewer than100 employees and are taking advantage ofopportunities to differentiate themselves in changingmarkets This service is designed to support thechanging needs of companies that need to addressspecific opportunities quickly from our experts Wepartner with our OnCall clients to provide confidentialassistance in messaging and positioning to maximizethe opportunities with prospects in the market E-Books Live Many of you know that Hurwitz ampAssociates thought leaders have written dozens of e-books over the years Over time we realize that timeand technology does not stand still Rather productsand trends evolve In addition not all information canbe provided in textual format Sometimes a videowebcast or podcast are needed to explain a trend atechnology or a customer benefit Therefore we areoffering our clients a living e-book These e-books caninclude embedded videos and audio segments toaugment text In addition you can use the e-bookservice as a way to continue to update content as yourneeds change For example when a new product isintroduced you may not have many customers Overtime there will be clients willing to be part of a videodiscussion of the customer benefit of using theproduct You may have a technical expert who canpresent the details of how a product works better thanany set of paragraphs We are happy to discuss these offerings with youSend us email or just pick up the phone ndash wersquod love todiscuss how we can help

Meet With Us At An Upcoming Event Our team will be busy over the next several weeksattending industry events Please reach out to us ifyou want to setup a meeting at an event

OpenStack Summit (Nov 13-15) ndash Jean will beattending AWS reInvent 2018 (Nov 26-30) ndash Judith will beattending AI World Conference and Expo (Dec 3-5) ndash Judithand Dan will be attending the event and Judith ischairing the Big Data to AI track As an AI World Research Sponsor we are happy tooffer you a savings of $200 off a 2 or 3 day conferenceregistration Use Discount Code 186800HW Make sure to check out our recent blogs atHurwitzcomblogs

We are looking forward to connecting with you whetherthrough briefings discussions about the mostimportant emerging trends or conversations aboutchanging customer requirements Judith Hurwitz Dan Kirsch Jean Bozman Chris Christiansen Fred Dalrymple Caroline Wilson

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