Research Question: Are IT vendors changing terms among their channel resellers in order to collect more sales revenue at the expense of long-time partners as a result of competition from the major cloud providers? Companies: AMZN, CHKP, CSCO, DVMT, FFIV, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, IBM, JNPR, MSFT, ORCL, PANW By: John Harrington Click here to download […]
Research Question: Are supply chain disruptions related to trade issues beginning to hurt IT hardware/software vendor delivery times to the reseller channels? Companies: AMZN, ANET, CHKP, CSCO, DVMT, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, INTC, JNPR, MSFT, PANW By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) Key Findings News is surfacing from key IT VAR/integration sources that […]
Research Question: Are rapidly evolving trends like on-demand utility computing, AI and accelerated machine learning pushing large incumbent IT companies to the brink of extinction? If so, which companies in which IT categories are threatened, and which will emerge in the next frontier? Companies: AMZN, ANET, BABA, CHKP, CSCO, CTXS, DVMT, ETR:DTE, FFIV, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, […]
Research Question: How are IT security incumbents responding to a source-forecasted spending slowdown and increasing competition from newer companies in the second half of 2018? Companies: AMZN, CHKP, CSCO, FFIV, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, JNPR, MSFT, PANW, PSDO, LON:SOPH By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) Key Findings Think the IT security run is endless? […]
Research Question: Which new technologies and applications are most immediately disruptive toward the business models of the established large IT vendors in every category? Companies: AMZN, CHKP, CSCO, CTXS, DVMT, GOOG/GOOGL, FTNT, HPE, IBM, JNPR, MSFT, ORCL, PANW, SAP By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) Key Findings All 16 sources agree that, […]
Research Question: How is the traditional IT security equipment sales landscape affected by the flood of cloud-style networking, software-only virtual firewalls, secure application accelerators and other virtual IT security machines? Companies: AMZN, CHKP, CSCO, CTXS, DVMT, FFIV, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, IBM, JNPR, MSFT, ORCL, PANW, RHT, VMW By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) […]
Research Question: As VARs move away from straight DIY product sales and toward their own set of client services that bypass reseller commissions, how much risk does this pose to major IT vendors? Which ones are most vulnerable? Companies: AMZN, ANET, CDW, CHKP, CSCO, CTXS, DVMT, FFIV, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, IBM, JNPR, MSFT, PANW, PSDO, SHA:600751 […]
Research Question: With IT security vendors all rapidly moving toward a cloud-based service model, which strategies may create new revenue growth for the major vendors? Companies: CHKP, CSCO, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, JNPR, MSFT, PANW, PFPT By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) Key Findings The first half of a calendar year is a heavy […]
Research Question: How will the tech networking, storage and security verticals deal with the expansion of on-demand cloud IT in 2018? Has the cloud permanently diminished large growth for the biggest incumbents? Companies: AKAM, AMZN, CHKP, CSCO, DVMT, FTNT, GOOG/GOOGL, HPE, IBM, JNPR, MLNX, MSFT, NTAP, ORCL, PANW, PFPT, PSTG, RHT, SMCI By: John Harrington Click […]
Research Question: Will Ingram Micro’s moves to become a full-service cloud support and IT security super-VAR add more disruption to the data security marketplace and directly affect Palo Alto Networks? Companies: AMZN, CDW, CHKP, FTNT, JNPR, MSFT, PANW, PFPT, PSDO, SHA:600515 By: John Harrington Click here to download report (.pdf) Key Findings “VAR wars […]
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