SHI’s Research Breakdown

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 actually doing to navigate the crunch and what s...

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 are forcing IT leaders to rethink how they plan, design, and i...

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 research report Ri...

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, this episode...

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 23 edition of the Research Rou...

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 phishing, how mult...

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 the Researc...

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 methods and defe...

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 enterprise IT leaders, in...

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 examine the broader fo...

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 findings from Flexera’s...