SHI’s Research Breakdown
SHI’s Research Breakdown is your audio companion to SHI’s Research Roundup newsletter, offering sharp, focused conversations that take you beyond the headlines. Each episode dives deep into a single research topic from the newsletter, unpacking key insights, implications, and unanswered questions with subject matter experts from across the tech industry. Whether it’s AI, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, or IT asset management, we break down the research so IT leaders, decision-makers, and curious minds can understand what it really means for their business and why it matters now. In about 15 minutes, you’ll be better equipped to lead in a rapidly evolving digital world. Follow SHI’s Research Breakdown for a dose of clarity, context, and expert commentary—because the tech trends shaping tomorrow deserve more than a headline.
Episodes
In this episode, Victoria is again joined by Dave Gruver (Field CTO) and Adam Reiser (Associate Vice President of End User Compute) as they dig into the findings of The Economic Benefits of SHI Device Lifecycle Management, a report commissioned by SHI and conducted by Omdia. The report explores how a deliberate, end-to-end approach to device lifecycle management (DLM) can deliver significant cost savings and productivity gains for ...
Memory suppliers are failing to honor commitments made to OEMs, and the result is a sudden, severe shortage that's disrupting enterprise refresh cycles and blowing up budgets that were set months before the price shocks hit. In this episode, Victoria Barber is joined by Adam Reiser, Associate Vice President of End User Compute, and Dave Gruver, Field CTO, to unpack what IT buyers are act...
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, we continue the conversation around the 2026 memory shortage with SHI Lead Field CTO Russ Cantwell and SHI Field CTO Steve Troxel. Drawing on Steve’s original research (featured in the February 20th edition of SHI’s Research Roundup), the discussion explores how supply constraints, AI-driven demand, and manufacturing dynamics...
The rapid rise of AI workloads is driving a new wave of infrastructure demand, and memory is at the center of it. In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, host Victoria Barber is joined by SHI colleagues Russ Cantwell, Lead Field CTO, and Steve Troxel, Field CTO, to unpack the implications of the emerging memory shortage and the rising cost of data center infrastructure. Their discussion builds on the Gartner re...
In Part 2 of this two-part Research Breakdown series, host Victoria Barber is again joined by SHI colleagues Brad Pollard, Field CTO, and Marc Yoder, Field CISO, to continue unpacking 2026 technology predictions from InformationWeek and InvestorPlace that we featured in the January 23rd edition of the Research Roundup LinkedIn newsletter.
While Part 1 focused on cutting through AI hype and infrastructure distractions, th...
In this episode of SHI's Research Breakdown, host Victoria Barber is joined by SHI colleagues Brad Pollard, Field CTO, and Marc Yoder, Field CISO, to unpack two bold prediction pieces: The Year Tech Reinvents Itself: Five Predictions for 2026 from Information Week and Tech Predictions for 2026: The Year Software Crawls into Physical Reality from InvestorPlace, both of which were covered in the January ...
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, host Victoria Barber and SHI Field CISO Brad Bowers sit down with David DellaPelle, CEO of Dune Security, to unpack how social engineering has evolved faster than awareness training can keep up.
Drawing on insights from Dune’s Inside Access research report titled CISOs on the Emerging Threats Redefining User Cyber Risk, the conversation explores how AI is supercharging phishi...
Welcome to another episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, where we unpack complex analyst reports into conversations that matter for IT leaders. In this episode, host Victoria Barber is joined by Shane Cronin, Head of ITAM and FinOps at SHI, and Kevin Wade, Manager of FinOps at SHI, to discuss Gartner’s report Control Software, Cloud and AI Costs by Integrating ITAM and FinOps that we covered in the August 22nd edition of...
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, host Victoria Barber is joined by SHI Field CISOs Brad Bowers and Rob Forbes to unpack the 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report from the Ponemon Institute and IBM. We also covered this report in the August 8th edition of the Research Roundup newsletter and a recent blog post on the SHI Resource Hub.
Throughout the conversation, they explore how AI is reshaping both attack metho...
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, Victoria invites SHI Field CISOs Brad Bowers and Rob Forbes to discuss CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report, which we covered in the April 18th edition of the Research Roundup newsletter. The report is one of the year’s most cited resources for understanding the evolving cyber threat landscape. The conversation covers the data and insights that matter most to enterpr...
In this episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown, Victoria Barber, Head of Strategic Insights at SHI, sits down with Field CTO Dave Gruver to unpack one of Gartner’s most thought-provoking reports—the Hype Cycle for Trends Beyond Technology, which we covered in the very first edition of the Research Roundup newsletter.
Unlike traditional Hype Cycles focused on specific tools or disciplines, this one zooms out to...
Welcome to the first episode of SHI’s Research Breakdown! In each episode, we’ll connect with experts to dive deeper into one of the topics from SHI’s Research Roundup LinkedIn Newsletter.
In this debut episode, Victoria Barber (Senior Director of Strategic Insights at SHI) is joined by Shane Cronin, Head of ITAM Services at SHI, and Jennifer Kuvlesky, Director of Product Marketing at Flexera, to unpack the ...
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