In this Breaking Analysis, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, reviews the changes Microsoft made to its financial reporting with a special focus on Azure impacts. He shares how it affects the cloud data and gives his thoughts on Microsoft’s AI reporting.Follow theCUBE's live event coverage https://www.thecube.net/Microsoft recently updated its Azure financial reporting, aligning with AWS to better reflect consumption-based revenue, which led to increased growth rates but lowere...

In this Breaking Analysis we look at the security landscape and unpack the multi-dimensional relationship between IBM and Palo Alto Networks to better understand how industry collaboration can improve cyber defenses and modernize security operations. With us are two senior executives from each firm, Mohamad Ali, SVP and Head of IBM Consulting and BJ Jenkins, the President of Palo Alto Networks.

In the latest episode of Breaking Analysis, theCUBE Research Chief Analysist Dave Vellante and Principal Analyst Rob Strechay break down Oracle’s growing momentum, highlighting the company’s strategic moves in cloud infrastructure, AI integration and its legacy database business. Oracle’s unique multicloud strategy, unveiled at Oracle Cloud World, takes center stage, with Larry Ellison’s bold vision of a password-free future and a focus on unmatched security. Follow theCUBE's live event ...

In the latest Breaking Analysis, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, and George Gilbert, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, provided a detailed analysis of Snowflake's transformative journey and its future aspirations and gave some of their takeaways from Snowflake’s Data Could Summit. They discussed the company's shift from a scalable data warehouse to an AI-driven data cloud and application platform, emphasizing the strategic leadership of new CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. F...

In this Breaking Analysis, theCUBE Research analyst George Gilbert and I share how we see the next data platform, what we sometimes call the 6th data platform evolving. And we’ll give you a preview of what we expect at next week’s Snowflake Summit, including the company’s response to metadata catalogs, the integration of Snowpark and new application developments.Follow theCUBE's live event coverage https://www.thecube.net/Snowflake is at a pivotal moment as the company faces new challenges in...

It’s estimated that firms on average have between 60 and 75 security tools installed. Although leading vendors logically market the benefits of addressing tools sprawl and complexity through consolidation, the data suggests that more than half the firms are increasing the number of security vendors installed, with a very small percentage able to effect vendor consolidation.Adding to the challenge is an environment where security operations pros have too many priorities to manage, including id...