Research Reports

Research Report: Beyond Legacy Virtualization: Wind River’s Modern Alternative for Enterprise Infrastructure

Steve McDowell October 31, 2025

Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.

Research Report: Addressing Enterprise AI Data Challenges At Scale with the Dell AI Data Platform

Steve McDowell October 31, 2025

This Research Report looks at how the Dell AI Data Platform addresses the challenges of AI-at-Scale with a purpose-built, modular approach that integrates file, block, and object storage into a unified system optimized for AI. Key components include data engines that enable aggregation, in-place querying, and searching across both structured and unstructured data sets, as well as storage engines that provide the necessary performance, scale, and security across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.

Research Brief: Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse

Steve McDowell October 29, 2025

Oracle recently announced its Oracle Autonomous AI at its Oracle AI World event in Las Vegas. The new offering combines Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database platform with native Apache Iceberg support. The offering addresses persistent enterprise challenges around data lock-in and platform interoperability by providing standardized access to data across multiple clouds and catalogs.

Research Brief: Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure

Steve McDowell August 7, 2025

Oracle announced the general availability of its Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a managed cloud service that combines distributed database capabilities with serverless computing architecture. The platform automatically distributes and synchronizes data across multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions, maintaining full SQL compatibility and support for Oracle Database features.

Research Brief: Oracle Database@AWS

Steve McDowell July 10, 2025

First announced in December 2024, Oracle and AWS have announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS. This strategic partnership positions Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure within AWS data centers.

Research Brief: WEKA NeuralMesh, a Micro-Services-based AI Data Architecture

Steve McDowell June 23, 2025

WEKA recently announced NeuralMesh, its software-defined, microservices-based storage platform engineered for high-performance, distributed AI workloads. NeuralMesh introduces a dynamic mesh architecture that departs from traditional monolithic or appliance-bound storage systems.

It addresses the requirements of emerging AI applications, including agentic AI, large-scale inference, and token warehouse infrastructure, by delivering consistent microsecond-level latency, fault isolation, and scale-out performance across hybrid environments.