VP & Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy covering the intersection of data, analytics, and AI. Love bleeding edge tech, Boston sports and family time.

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I've joined @MoorInsStrat as VP & Principal Analyst covering data, analytics, governance, and storage — and where AI intersects them all. Grateful to learn the playbook from @PatrickMoorhead and the MI&S team. Sat down with Erin Zehr for my first piece on why I made the move: moorinsightsstrategy.com/the…
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🔐 New research from VP & Principal Analyst Michael Leone (@LeoneDataAI) examines how confidential AI brings models to regulated data while protecting records and model weights. The brief explores @VAST_Data Enclave and four requirements buyers should use to evaluate confidential enclaves. moorinsightsstrategy.com/res… @PatrickMoorhead @VAST_Data
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Today, @VAST_Data launched DataEnclave, bringing confidential AI to regulated companies that want top-tier models on data that can't leave the building. I wrote a research brief on why the model has to come to the data. Link below.
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Everybody left #splunkconf26 talking about agent observability. Machine Data Lake is the announcement @splunk customers will feel in their budgets first. Can't convince me otherwise.
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First announcement from the #splunkconf26 keynote. @Cisco and @NVIDIA expanded their partnership and Splunk AI now runs where your machine data already sits.
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And the teams sitting on the best machine data are usually the ones who can't move it anywhere, so this is Splunk and NVIDIA moving the AI to it.
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In Denver with @splunk and @Cisco for #splunkconf26. Bringing three questions: 1. Does anyone know what their agents actually cost? 2. Can anyone tell an attacked agent from a confused one? 3. Will analyzing data where it sits hold up at scale? Come say hi! More to come this week.
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I'd bet money nobody on your team is watching what retrieval costs right now, and the wild part is that it's the thing your agents do all day.
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Is @Broadcom pulling VDDK a trap or just tying up loose ends? I'm in the loose ends camp. I know that's a not popular answer cause I feel like a lot of folks are still mad. But in my mind, if you were leaving, it's another reason to go. If you're staying, you're not touching it anyway.
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Everyone's reading the @cloudera and @MistralAI deal as a sovereignty story. Sovereignty is the no brainer side of it. Think about being empowered to train a model on data that legally cannot move. Totally different value prop and a very different job. @TechTargetNews piece below.
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Off we go at the @Equinix Analyst Summit.
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Before you argue about @awscloud and @duckdb, look at who owns the copyright. A Dutch nonprofit does, and AWS isn't buying it.
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Replying to @awscloud @duckdb
Anything running DuckDB today keeps running, free, same terms. Nobody at AWS has the ability to change that.
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