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GigaOm Research Bulletin November 2025

2025-11-25

New CEO, IDP, Modernization and More!

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Welcome to GigaOm’s research bulletin for November 2025!

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This bulletin is for our analyst relations and vendor connections, to update you on our current research, published reports, and improvements behind the scenes. Reach out if you have any questions.

To start, please join us in welcoming our new CEO Howard Holton. We pride ourselves in our practitioner approach, and Howard is a bona fide CIO, CTO and CISO. If you are not familiar with Howard’s straight-talking approach and technical acumen, do connect with him on LinkedIn.

As part of the change we are revising GigaOm’s values, the first of which is: Be Curious! In this world of change, we will be digging deeper, thinking further, and driving the shift from insight to action. We’d love your thoughts on what would make the most difference, let us know in response to this email or let’s talk online!

An introduction to Tom Garske as GigaOm’s CTO…

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With over 10 years of AI and Technology Leadership experience, Tom Garske joined GigaOm at the end of 2024 as VP of Product & Engineering and has recently taken on the role of Chief Technology Officer. He will be at Microsoft Ignite next week, if you want to fix a meet let us know!

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In this recent episode of the ‘Discovering Disruptions in Tech’ podcast, Howard talks to Brandon Heller, Co-Founder/CTO of Forward Networks, to discuss risks and rewards around startups vs. proven solutions.

Research Highlights

See below for our most recent reports, blogs, and articles and where to meet our analysts in the next few months. Any questions? Just reply to this email.

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Radar highlight: For this bulletin,wewould like to highlight the Radar for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). “The availability of AI, ML, and NLP capabilities in IDP ensures the strike rate in processing data is significantly higher than what a mere optical character recognition (OCR) tool can deliver,” says author Dana Hernandez. We are wrapping up briefings on: Managed Backup as a Service, Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management, Cloud Networking, Kubernetes for Edge, and Enterprise Firewalls. We are currently briefing on: Identity & Access Management, Kubernetes Management/Kubernetes Resource Management, Microsegmentation, Data Security Posture Management, Security Service Edge, IT Service Management, and Cloud FinOps. Warming up are: Object Storage/Object Storage as a Service, Threat Intelligent Platforms, Network Observability, Cloud Resource Optimization, Incident Response Platforms, and AI Code Assistants. You can keep tabs on the GigaOm research calendar here.

Recent Reports
We’ve released 43 reports since the last bulletin. Phew! In Analytics and AI, we have a report on Real-time Analytical Databases, Data Observability, Cybersecurity Data Fabric, Semantic Layers and Metric Stores, Data Catalogs, and Vector Databases. For Cloud Infrastructure and Operations, we have Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), Globally Distributed File Systems, Patch Management Solutions, Cloud Performance Testing, AIOps Solutions, Kubernetes Observability, and Software Asset Management. In Storage, we have covered Kubernetes Data Storage and Scale-out Storage.In the Security domain, we have released reports on Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Security Information & Event Management, Identity Security Posture Management, Mobile Threat Defense, Anti-Phishing, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), Application Security Testing (AST), API Security, Secure Enterprise Browsing, Evaluating Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions, Continuous Vulnerability Management, Insider Risk Management, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), SecOps Automation, Cloud Data Protection Solutions, Autonomous Security Operations Center (SOC), Data Loss Prevention, Software Supply Chain Security, Privileged Access Management, Ransomware Prevention Solutions, Container Security Solutions, and Cloud Network Security. In Networking, we have covered Service Mesh, DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM), and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). And in Software and Applications, we have a report on Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), and Enterprise Process Automation (EPA) Solutions.

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Blogs and Articles
“Modernization is more than new tech. It’s aligning infrastructure capabilities with strategic intent on purpose, not by accident.”

Field CTO and Analyst Darrel Kent writes about Modernization by Design.

Other blogs include:

Quoted in the Press

GigaOm analysts are quoted in a variety of publications. Recently, we were name-checked in the following:

Where To Meet GigaOm Analysts

In the next couple of months, you can expect to see us at OpenText World, Microsoft Ignite, AWS re:Invent, NetApp INSIGHT Xtra Paris, and Black Hat Europe. Do let us know if you want to fix a meet!

To send us your news and updates, please add analystconnect@gigaom.com to your lists and get in touch with any questions. Thanks!

Jon Collins, VP of Engagement and Field CTO Claire Hale, Engagement Coordinator

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