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Tracy Corbo from EMA Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Tracy Corbo, Principal Research Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), has joined The BSM Blog on APMdigest.

Corbo has several years of experience in the computing industry, primarily as an industry analyst and on the vendor side working on competitive analysis. At Enterprise Management Associates, she works in the network management practice area.

Prior to joining EMA, Corbo worked for two of the largest IT market research vendors, Gartner and IDC. In her position as an analyst at both of these firms, she was responsible for market sizing and forecasting of various IT markets. Her areas of coverage have included both hardware and software solutions, particularly for networking, network management, WAN optimization, WLAN, PC networking hardware, groupware, and application development. She has published numerous reports and has been widely quoted in the press.

On the vendor side, Corbo worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in the product marketing division doing competitive research. This research provided guidance to both the engineering and product marketing teams regarding competitive positioning, features and functions requirements for new products, and pricing analysis and suggestions for new product launches. Her other projects included providing competitive positioning materials for the field. Before moving into the high-tech industry, Corbo was an IT manager at a larger commercial real estate company. She holds a B.A., East Asian Studies, University of Connecticut, and a Certificate in Technical Writing from Northeastern University.

EMA is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm that specializes in going “beyond the surface” to provide deep insight across the full spectrum of IT and data management technologies.

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Tracy Corbo from EMA Joins The BSM Blog

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Tracy Corbo, Principal Research Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), has joined The BSM Blog on APMdigest.

Corbo has several years of experience in the computing industry, primarily as an industry analyst and on the vendor side working on competitive analysis. At Enterprise Management Associates, she works in the network management practice area.

Prior to joining EMA, Corbo worked for two of the largest IT market research vendors, Gartner and IDC. In her position as an analyst at both of these firms, she was responsible for market sizing and forecasting of various IT markets. Her areas of coverage have included both hardware and software solutions, particularly for networking, network management, WAN optimization, WLAN, PC networking hardware, groupware, and application development. She has published numerous reports and has been widely quoted in the press.

On the vendor side, Corbo worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in the product marketing division doing competitive research. This research provided guidance to both the engineering and product marketing teams regarding competitive positioning, features and functions requirements for new products, and pricing analysis and suggestions for new product launches. Her other projects included providing competitive positioning materials for the field. Before moving into the high-tech industry, Corbo was an IT manager at a larger commercial real estate company. She holds a B.A., East Asian Studies, University of Connecticut, and a Certificate in Technical Writing from Northeastern University.

EMA is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm that specializes in going “beyond the surface” to provide deep insight across the full spectrum of IT and data management technologies.

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AI is the catalyst for significant investment in data teams as enterprises require higher-quality data to power their AI applications, according to the State of Analytics Engineering Report from dbt Labs ...

Misaligned architecture can lead to business consequences, with 93% of respondents reporting negative outcomes such as service disruptions, high operational costs and security challenges ...

A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

IT and line-of-business teams are increasingly aligned in their efforts to close the data gap and drive greater collaboration to alleviate IT bottlenecks and offload growing demands on IT teams, according to The 2025 Automation Benchmark Report: Insights from IT Leaders on Enterprise Automation & the Future of AI-Driven Businesses from Jitterbit ...

A large majority (86%) of data management and AI decision makers cite protecting data privacy as a top concern, with 76% of respondents citing ROI on data privacy and AI initiatives across their organization, according to a new Harris Poll from Collibra ...

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2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

Regardless of OpenShift being a scalable and flexible software, it can be a pain to monitor since complete visibility into the underlying operations is not guaranteed ... To effectively monitor an OpenShift environment, IT administrators should focus on these five key elements and their associated metrics ...

An overwhelming majority of IT leaders (95%) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation is set to be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far, according to The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, And Employee Experience, a new report from Nexthink ...

Overall outage frequency and the general level of reported severity continue to decline, according to the Outage Analysis 2025 from Uptime Institute. However, cyber security incidents are on the rise and often have severe, lasting impacts ...