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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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Building Bridges with ResOps and Identity Resilience
This week at RSA, Dave and I got to visit with the folks at Commvault. It’s clear that we’ve moved into the operational phase of securing AI, and I’m here for it! The two things that stood out to me during our visit were Commvault’s focus on ResOps and Identity...
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...
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...
Searchable Insights
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,...
Future First Sustainability—The Equinix Green Data Center Initiative
According to a report from 451 Research’s Sustainability 2023, most organizations have now either implemented (46%) or are developing (27%) formal targets for reducing their environmental impact. IT operations contribute to environmental impact. Vendor sustainability...
GKE Enterprise—Go Fast and Be Secure
Last week at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, I got a chance to share a cup of coffee with Bobby Allen, MS, PMP , Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Runtimes It’s been 10 months since Google introduced GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes...
Amazon GuardDuty—Intelligent Threat Detection That Keeps Getting Better
By 2028, 70% of workloads will run in the cloud according to Gartner. Today, 67% of enterprise infrastructure is now cloud-based. According to Zippia, 48% of businesses choose to store their most important data in the cloud. In fact, as of 2023, 60% of all corporate...
Google Security Command Center Enterprise: Building a bridge between enterprise security and multi cloud protection
We’ve seen an evolution of cloud security point solutions morphing into platforms like CNAPPs. The challenge is that these platforms often operate in a silo and are disconnected from broader security ops. Google Cloud Security Command Center Enterprise is a step...
Dive on In, the AIaaS Water is Fine
Security as a Foundational Element
Information is More Important than Infrastructure
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...
Cloud is a Journey, not a Destination
Remember when you were a kid and went on a family vacation with your parents in the car? If you were lucky enough to take a road trip on the Classic Route 66, you might have seen some cool sights like the Gateway Arch in St Louis or the Blue Whale in Catoosa, Oklahoma...