Research Notes

Research Note: HPE’s New Storage SLAs and Edge-Ready Backup Appliances

Steve McDowell May 18, 2025

HPE recently introduced new service-level guarantees and product innovations focused on cyber resilience, energy efficiency, and zero data loss for its flagship HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 platform.

It also expanded its StoreOnce data protection portfolio with new appliances tailored to remote offices and SMBs.

Research Note: RUCKUS Networks Introduces AI-Driven Wi-Fi 7 Outdoor Access Point

Michael McDowell May 14, 2025

RUCKUS Networks recently expanded its portfolio by introducing the RUCKUS T670 and T670sn outdoor Wi-Fi 7 access points. This announcement is a significant step in bringing the latest Wi-Fi standards and AI capabilities to challenging outdoor environments, focusing on high-density and performance needs.

Research Note: Nutanix & Pure Storage Partnership

Steve McDowell May 12, 2025

At the recent Nutanix .NEXT event, Pure Storage and Nutanix announced a collaboration to deliver a jointly certified solution combining Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP.

The alliance targets enterprise customers seeking alternatives to traditional virtualization stacks, particularly VMware deployments.

Research Note: IBM Orchestrate for Enterprise Agentic AI

Steve McDowell May 6, 2025

At IBM Think 2025 in Boston, IBM announced its new watsonx Orchestrate, catching the shift that sees enterprise AI moving beyond simple model deployment toward agent orchestration.

The platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI agents across enterprise environments with minimal technical expertise required.

Research Note: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Adversary OverWatch

Steve McDowell May 1, 2025

CrowdStrike expanded its threat-hunting capabilities, introducing its new Falcon Adversary OverWatch Next-Gen SIEM, extending visibility beyond endpoints to third-party data sources.

The new solution uses managed threat hunting to uncover threats in their early stages using available third-party SIEM data from network edge devices, identity and access management tools, SaaS applications, and email security tools.

Research Note: IBM Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM) & Predictive Threat Intelligence

Steve McDowell April 29, 2025

At RSAC 2025, IBM introduced new agentic AI capabilities to its managed security services portfolio, focusing on autonomous threat detection and response. The two key offerings are the Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM) and X-Force Predictive Threat Intelligence (PTI).