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Jo Peterson, founder of ClearTech Research, offers independent insights on cloud, cloud security, AI security, and enterprise technology trends. Her work is grounded in deep technical expertise and a unique ability to translate complex topics into meaningful perspectives for decision-makers.
This page features Jo’s original analysis, opinion pieces, and thought leadership — informed by decades of hands-on experience and a sharp lens on what’s emerging, what’s real, and what’s next in the enterprise tech landscape.
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Commvault ResOps: Bridging Security & Operations for Smarter Cyber Recovery
Download Transcript (pdf) When ransomware strikes, even the most prepared organizations can find themselves scrambling—security hunting for indicators while IT races to spin up restores. It’s a recipe for confusion and...
Neoscalers on the Rise
A neoscaler is a new type of cloud provider, often called a "neocloud," that specializes in delivering high-performance infrastructure for intensive artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Unlike traditional hyperscalers (like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft),...
Commvault’s MVC
Commvault's Minimum Viable Company (MVC)—A Restore and Recovery Playbook for Success What is that Critical Customer WorkFlow Sequence? There are 4 Must Do’s and there is a playbook order to them. Read the full article for that WorkFlow Sequence Or just want to learn...
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#BlackHat2025 Wrap Up
The 8 Key Themes of BlackHat 2025 Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay hosted the 2025 BlackHat conference last week with an estimated 22,000 guests. The focus of Black Hat is to provide a platform for the latest cutting-edge research, developments, and trends in...
The Gap Between AI Adoption and AI Security is Wide
Thoughts from the ground at #BlackHat2025 Headed to #BlackHat2025 in Las Vegas where one of the key themes will be #AISecurity. Check out the futuristic image that Chat GPT created of AI Security in Las Vegas! No doubt that AI has had a huge impact on cybersecurity,...
The Business Value of AI Powered Network Automation
Last week, Extreme Networks Platform ONE (https://www.extremenetworks.com/platform-one), an integrated AI-Powered automation that simplifies Enterprise Networking and Security went GA. The platform offers 3 main benefits: · AI-Driven Insight and Automation ·...
AWS re:Inforce 2025– A Secure Foundation Enables Innovation
June 19, 2025 A secure foundation acts as a catalyst for innovation. It's not a barrier but rather a necessary element that allows organizations to confidently pursue new ideas, technologies, and strategies, leading to sustainable growth and competitive advantage. ...
Commvault’s MVC
Commvault's Minimum Viable Company (MVC)—A Restore and Recovery Playbook for Success What is that Critical Customer WorkFlow Sequence? There are 4 Must Do’s and there is a playbook order to them. Read the full article for that WorkFlow Sequence Or just want to learn...
AI, Zero Trust & Vegas Converge During Zenith Live 25
June 9, 2025 Q: What does Las Vegas, Zero Trust and AI have in common? A: Everything! One of the key themes of Zenith Live 2025, which took place in Las Vegas this week and hosted about 4000 customers, prospects, vendors, analysts, media, and Zscaler employees was the...
Google Cloud WAN: A network built for and powered by AI
What does a Wide Area Network and AI have in common? The short answer is a lot. AI is one of the next evolutions in technology and it represents its own set of workload challenges. This raises an issue that many IT operations teams don’t see coming until it is often...
Wiz, a Lucky Security Charm for Google Cloud?
On the heels of St Patrick’s Day, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) announced the acquisition of Wiz. The deal is valued at $32 billion. This is the largest acquisition in Alphabet’s history. The purchase of Wiz is a smart offensive move on Google’s part. This...
Microsoft Co-Pilot for Azure—Your AI Key to Letting the Light In
In IT we love acronyms. An oldie but a goodie is KTLO or Keeping the Lights On. KTLO refers to basic systems and infrastructure maintenance. Did you know that some IT organizations spend as much as 80% of their resources and budget on simply supporting the...
Microsoft Defender for Cloud–A Holistic View
Did you know that Microsoft released the first version of SQL Server, known as SQL Server 1.0, in 1989 for the OS/2 operating system? All of us in IT are familiar with this long time database friend and server that stores and retrieves data. SQL Server was...
Continued Innovation with Azure VMware Solution
Recently, I attended the Veritas Conquer Every Cloud event on January 26th. Veritas has been in business for almost 40 years, starting out as Tolerant Systems in 1983, building fault-tolerant computer systems. It was interesting to learn that their software and...
Microsoft Fabric — Connecting the Dots
Did you know that Microsoft released the first version of SQL Server, known as SQL Server 1.0, in 1989 for the OS/2 operating system? All of us in IT are familiar with this long time database friend and server that stores and retrieves data. SQL Server was...