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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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Special Edition: Commvault Cloud Unity at SHIFT NYC
November 17, 2025 During SHIFT NYC this week, Commvault announced Commvault Cloud Unity, an AI-driven platform that brings together data security, cyber recovery, and identity resilience across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on premises environments. In the keynote, the...
Inferencing and ESMB through Lenovo’s ISG Lens at GIAC25
During a couple of absolute perfectly cool, crispy, sunny days this October in Raleigh, NC about 70 analyst from around the world gathered at Lenovo’s US headquarters for the Global Industry Analyst Conference or GIAC25. The entire executive team greeted us and their...
#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...
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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...
AI’s Role in Identity
Due to the widespread adoption of multi cloud strategies and the growing utilization of AI related programs like Large Language Models, we’re seeing the quantity of both human and machine identities growing quickly. Many of these identities require sensitive or...
Responsible AI in an Evolving Regulatory Environment
Generative AI is expected to be a $200 billion industry by 2032. The pace of its growth underscores the need to address the legal, ethical, and privacy concerns created by the technology and its use. This powerful thought leadership whitepaper from the Cloud Security...
AWS re:Inforce 2024 Keynote Recap—A Commitment to Security and Innovation
Moore’s law states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits (or microchips) will double every two years. Moore’s law was first described by Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel, in 1965. It has held largely true for about 46 years now, even though he...
A Sea Change: AWS No Longer Operating as VMware Cloud on AWS reseller
What Do the Changes Mean if You are a VMC on AWS Customer? In 2017, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched VMware Cloud on AWS, a powerful platform that combines VMware’s leading virtualization technology with AWS’s robust cloud infrastructure. As of April 30,...