Peter Burris

Peter Burris is the Chief Research Officer and General Manager of Wikibon, SiliconANGLE's research arm. He is a leading authority on digital transformation and the evolving relationship of business and technology. Previously, he had senior analyst and management jobs at leading research firms like Forrester Research, META Group (now Gartner), and IDC. At Forrester, he led the company's research into the business technology agenda, which described how technology was being applied to grow customer engagement and business revenue. Peter lives in Silicon Valley.

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Learning to do distributed big data

In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, the Internet of Things, big data, application, cloud ...

Food for thought: How is software going to eat the edge?

In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, the Internet of Things, big data, ...

Edge centers: hyperconverged technology for IIoT&P

This is a Wikibon Voice of the Community Report, sponsored by Dell EMC. Voice of the Community posts are identified paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. Premise IIoT&P edge computing is gaining traction in business. New hyperconverged infrastructure technologies can be employed to add scale and flexibility to most ...

UniGrid: an emerging True Private Cloud architecture

In between meeting with customers, Crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the Wikibon research team finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, Internet of Things, big data, application, cloud and infrastructure modernization. We use the results ...

The technology leadership imperative in digital business transformation

This is a Wikibon Voice of the Community Report, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Voice of the Community posts are identified paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. Premise Firms must transform crucial digital business capabilities, but most struggle with the concept. Without information technology leadership, the struggle will ...

The Wikibon Research Meeting: True Private Cloud will lead technology evolution

In between meeting with customers, Crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the Wikibon research team finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, Internet of Things, big data, application, cloud and infrastructure modernization. We use the results ...

Amazon Web Services Marketplace: ecosystem by API?

The concept of business-by-API has been around for a few years now. At Wikibon, we’ve written about it in some depth, noting that in digital businesses, an application programming interface and the product are pretty indistinguishable. It’s a powerful concept: Publish an API, let customers engage it, use it to exchange value. To do it ...

The executive role in digital business technology decisions

This is a Wikibon Voice of the Community Report, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Voice of the Community posts are identified paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. Premise Businesses know that they must invest in digital capabilities because customers are demanding digital engagement. However, most businesses struggle to ...

Wikibon report preview: How big can Amazon Web Services get?

In Wikibon‘s semiannual review of the cloud industry, my colleagues David Floyer and Ralph Finos and I study events and trends in public cloud, true private cloud and X-as-a-service market segments. We’ll soon deliver our overall cloud report, but as we delved deeper into recent cloud events and trends, we kept returning to a single ...

Chief Information Officers: Get your data moving!

The value of data increases as the time to use it consistently decreases. What does that mean? Technologies capable of moving data across domains fast are gaining favor in the market. This blog post, sponsored by WANdisco, will explore the relationship among data value, data consistency and time. Do you remember playing “telephone,” the game ...