David Norfolk
Industry Analyst at Bloor Research
Stout, middle-aged, grumpy socialist, likes the civilised things in life. Photographer; & Industry Analyst (IT development & governance) at Bloor Research.
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2 weeks ago |
bloorresearch.com | David Norfolk
I can still remember when every year or so I used to read a new “Death of the Mainframe” story. And, yet, the mainframe is still here, and companies like IBM, BMC, Broadcom and others are still doing very nicely out of it. It is transitioning to “Just Another (very powerful) Server” – I wish we could lose the name and start calling it “Enterprise Server 3.0” – but it is still basically the same, throughput-based, highly parallel, highly available architecture.
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3 weeks ago |
bloorresearch.com | David Norfolk
Modernizing a mainframe environment on-platformDate: 24th April 2025 By: David Norfolk Classification: InPerspectiveFree Download (subject to terms)Modernizing mission-critical mainframe systems is becoming an issue at board level for the business and Open Systems Zowe is going to be part of the solution. Free Download (subject to terms)
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1 month ago |
bloorresearch.com | David Norfolk |Daniel Howard
Enov8 is an Australian software vendor offering products that help its customers to manage and enhance their DevOps-based application development environments. It was originally spun off in 2013 from an IT services company, so its current products are based on automation of its previous practice and experience. It now targets large enterprises, particularly in financial services, across various geographies and industries.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
bloorresearch.com | David Norfolk
Artificial Intelligence is at the top of the hype cycle these days – and it isn’t really “intelligence” at all, it is more “advanced computational analytics”. So I was interested when Kyvos, a firm which has been in the BI and Analytics space for a couple of decades, wanted to talk to me about its FLOW WFM product, which is based on Artificial, Human and Business Intelligence.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
bloorresearch.com | David Norfolk
It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Martin Banks, a Bloor Research consultant and associate for many years. His departure was sudden and unexpected – he was commenting on my Facebook posts with his usual wit right up until the end. He was a columnist on the first PC magazine I worked on and already a “wise elder” in the field. He wrote beautifully and I learned a lot from him about reading between the lines at press conferences and so on as, I suspect, did many others.
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