Amalgam Insights

There is no bigger proof that hybrid data infrastructure is cool than when a shark comes into the tank: Robert Herjavec leans into his enterprise IT roots in joining Zetaris & speaking with The Wall Street Journal’s Isabelle Bousquette. Charles Araujo & Hyoun Park are both interested in seeing Herjavec go back to his IT roots, but also reconsidering what hybrid data management truly means in 2025. https://lnkd.in/gVXQZcpv

At Zoho Day, Amalgam Insights had the opportunity to grab three minutes from Zoho’s AI Head Ramprakash Ramamoorthy about AI offerings across hardware, software, assistants, data science, and even foundation models. Our quick analysis is that the breath of AI offerings that Zoho both currently has and is working on makes it a leader for Indian AI and provides some foundational capabilities to fundamentally disrupt and democratize a variety of AI markets.

Amalgam Insights has long held an interest in emerging global markets. And in this regard, Zoho has broadly found Africa to be a fertile market with a lot of demand for finance applications. In this quick video, Zoho’s Sivaramakrishnan Iswaran provides context in where in Africa will Zoho Finance extend its current capabilities.

Amalgam Insights speaks to Zoho’s Sivaramakrishnan Iswaran about the future of Zoho’s finance portfolio at #ZohoDay.

At Zoho Day 2025, AI’s Chief Analyst Hyoun Park asked Zoho’s Ramprakash Ramamoorthy about how Zoho helps with enterprise Al challenges & why not just use a consumer-grade app like ChatGPT?

A recent Pew Research Center survey shows only 12% of workers have been trained on AI over the last year. But Charles Araujo thinks that Pew is asking the wrong question when it comes to AI adoption. https://lnkd.in/gFRrDAYG

Based on a TD Cowen research note, @Microsoft seems to have both canceled some leases and refrained from moving forward with other leases as Microsoft cuts back on data commitments. Even mighty Microsoft has limits on AI related spend as the financial considerations have changed rapidly. Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo marvel at how data center capacity is still a big CIO concern. https://lnkd.in/grDq6A_N

Alas, Poor Skype, I knew it well! Microsoft has officially committed to an end date for Skype, a product that helped define the new world of computer-aided communications, but struggled to keep up with market demands over time. Microsoft transferred a lot of Skype capabilities to Teams and largely crippled Skype’s community over the past five years. Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park lament the end of an era and imagine what might have been. https://lnkd.in/gJrdvqSS

Based on a TD Cowen research note, Microsoft seems to have both canceled some leases and refrained from moving forward with other leases as Microsoft cuts back on data commitments. Even mighty Microsoft has limits on AI related spend as the financial considerations have changed rapidly. Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo marvel at how data center capacity is still a big CIO concern. https://lnkd.in/gytDEz95

For this video presentation of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech issues for the #CIO office: Salesforce Hypes AI Success But Agentic Demand Still Lags IDC Launches AI-Based TechMatch for Software Selection IBM Plans to Acquire DataStax , Finishes Acquiring HashiCorp Take This Open Source Tech and Fork It RIP Skype August 29, 2003 - May 5, 2025 Overcommit and Don’t Invest: Microsoft Cuts Data Center Leases Wasabi Technologies Reports Data Center Costs Out Of Control Pew: Only 12% of Workers are Trained on AI Sergey Brin Wants Googlers In the Office Five Days a Week DOGE Shuts Down 18F, An Agency that Cut Software Costs https://lnkd.in/gze8MsxR