TECHnalysis Research

About the Founder

Bob O'Donnell
TECHnalysis Research was founded by technology market research veteran Bob O'Donnell.
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Research Study
November 12, 2025

The Future of AI is Hybrid: TECHnalysis Research Survey Report

Everyone knows that AI is reshaping the very foundations of enterprise computing. But what hasn’t been as clear is the fact that it’s a Hybrid AI model—involving the major public cloud providers, on-premise data centers/private clouds and edge computing devices—that are driving the biggest change. The latest TECHnalysis Research Hybrid AI Study, which surveyed over 1,000 IT decision-makers from medium and large organizations across ten US industries, offers a compelling snapshot of this transition. The findings reveal that the era of “cloud-first” thinking for AI workloads and applications is rapidly giving way to a more nuanced, hybrid approach—one that balances the strengths of public cloud, private infrastructure, and edge computing.

TECHnalysis Research, LLC provides strategic consulting and market research services to the technology industry and professional financial community. Building on a deep understanding of critical technology and business trends in conjunction with hard-hitting, original research, the firm provides unique "out-of-the-box" perspectives that are still grounded in the practical realities of the technology, media and telecom markets.
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Column/Blog
May 18, 2026

Dell Brings Hybrid AI Vision to Life

The cloud-only AI narrative is getting harder to defend. At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas last week, Dell made a compelling case — backed by real customer deployments and new product announcements — that enterprises are running serious AI workloads on their own infrastructure, from corporate datacenters down to individual workstations. The company also rolled out meaningful updates to the AI Factory platform it launched with Nvidia two years ago, all aimed at solving one of the industry's most persistent challenges: actually getting AI from proof-of-concept into production.

Column/Blog
April 29, 2026

Amazon Quick Shows Why Agentic AI Needs the Desktop

An interesting thing is happening in the world of agentic AI—it’s bringing more attention and focus back to client devices and even on-device compute. Initially, there was a prominent school of thought which posited that agentic AI would drive more centralization of computing resources. In a sense, the idea was that we would move back to a mainframe and terminal like model, where client devices had little to no impact on the computing workloads. Instead, it looks like the exact opposite is occurring and the importance and relevance of client devices is continuing to grow.