It’s been a year and half since 451 Research joined S&P Global Market Intelligence and head of research, Simon Robinson, joins host Eric Hanselman to talk about making progress in the time of a pandemic and the research focus in the year ahead. There’s an exploration of the frothy M&A market and a dive into what that overused term, digital transformation is really all about. There’s a lot more to digitization than just technology and organizations have to work hard to get it right. Learn more: spglobal.com/nextintech

This is a special edition episode with highlights from an important, live streamed event that addresses diversity and inclusion in technology. It’s based on a 451 Research VotE study on diversity and inclusion and features Melanie Posey, the study author, and Sarah Cottle, head of news, moderated by Sarah James, industry editor on the TMT news team. It’s a conversation that explores progress and challenges around diversity and inclusion and looks at how S&P Global is working to address them

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With all of the excitement around 5G technology, the realities of real enterprise value can be hard to discern. Research director Brian Partridge and senior research analyst Erik Keith join host Eric Hanselman to peer through the fog to sort our where 5G is today. There are great enterprise opportunities, but they need to be ready to put them to work. Study data is showing that, while there’s activity, operators still have a lot of investment ahead of them to get to useful levels of coverage.

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Networks are a fundamental piece of the infrastructure puzzle, but they’ve lagged behind the needs of modern applications. Mike Fratto, senior research analyst for Applied Infrastructure and DevOps, joins host Eric Hanselman to talk about network automation and what organizations can do to get greater change velocity from this key resource. Bringing developers and networking teams together can ensure that connectivity needs are well integrated. Even when it comes to network connected cows.

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Is data the new oil, the lifeblood of the digital domain or some other trite phrase? It doesn’t matter, if it’s not working for the business. Matt Aslett, research director for Data, AI & Analytics, joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss challenges organizations are facing putting data to work and how they can address them. Becoming a data-driven organization isn’t simple. The term Big Data may be passé, but the need to make tools accessible to a larger part of business is critical.

While the impacts of ESG are becoming much more visible, the nuances in technology can be harder to discern. Chris Marsh, principal research analyst, joins host Eric Hanselman to explore some upcoming research that looks at ESG aspects in enterprise technology. It goes beyond energy or carbon footprint, extending to working environments, data management and customer experience. This is a conversation that has to expand to putting technology to work improving business practices and more. Learn more: spglobal.com/nextintech

Datacenters receive a lot of attention for their environmental impact and regulations are changing, shifting the economics. Dan Thompson, principal research analyst, joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss some of the issues that datacenter operators face as they look for more green energy from electric grids that may not be able to provide it. What Dan’s referring to as the Great Green Squeeze should be a call to action for operators to put their skills to work solving this important ESG issue. Learn more: spglobal.com/nextintech 

The RSA Conference is a main event in the security community’s calendar and was one of the last in-person conferences many of us attended in 2020. Scott Crawford, 451’s research director for security, and Garrett Bekker and Fernando Montenegro, analysts on Scott’s team, join host Eric Hanselman to ponder what to look for in the first virtual version of RSA. We’ll miss the human contact, but might learn something. We kick around hot topics like zero trust and SASE and have some fun with MTTSW.

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Quantum computing holds tremendous potential, is the subject of a lot of tech speculation and can be strange and puzzling. Dr. Owen Rogers, research director for the 451 Research digital economics unit and the founder of our Quantum Center of Excellence and James Sanders, research analyst for differentiated silicon and quantum computing, join host Eric Hanselman to discuss where quantum computing is today and what organizations should be considering about its impacts, from qubits to encryption.

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Discussions around the Internet of Things get tangled up with ideas about edge infrastructure. Christian Renaud, research director for the 451 Research IoT practice, joins host Eric Hanselman to sort out the distinctions and look at how the understanding of the value of IoT is maturing. We dive into how the nature of the IT/OT divide has changed along with business models. Once again, we’re back at the edge.

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