Dave Raffo

Senior Analyst

Dave’s focus within The Futurum Group is concentrated in the rapidly evolving integrated infrastructure and cloud storage markets. Before joining the Evaluator Group, Dave spent 25 years as a technology journalist and covered enterprise storage for more than 15 years. He most recently worked for 13 years at TechTarget as Editorial Director and Executive News Editor for storage, data protection and converged infrastructure. In 2020, Dave won an American Society of Business Professional Editors (ASBPE) national award for column writing.

His previous jobs covering technology include news editor at Byte and Switch, managing editor of EdTech Magazine, and features and new products editor at Windows Magazine. Before turning to technology, he was an editor and sports reporter for United Press International in New York for 12 years. A New Jersey native, Dave currently lives in northern Virginia.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Journalism from William Patterson University.

Recent Insights, NEWS & RESEARCH:

Services From AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform Are Among New Application and Data Workflow Orchestration Plug-Ins
Dave Raffo and Steven Dickens from The Futurum Group analyze the latest Control-M and Helix Control-M plugins from BMC, which focus on public cloud services and mainframe modernization.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast-Interview Series, the Futurum Group’s Dave Raffo is joined by Greg White of Nutanix and Pritish Nilangi of AMD to talk technologies required to run modern applications in hybrid and multi clouds.
The News Comes Less Than 3 Weeks After the Cisco-Nutanix Partnership Announcement
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, explores Cisco’s end-of-life announcement of its HyperFlex HCI system, with the news coming less than 3 weeks after Cisco launched a partnership with HCI rival Nutanix.
Both Vendors Will Sell Cisco Servers and Networking Running Nutanix Cloud Platform
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks at the Cisco and Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure partnership, combining Cisco compute and networking services with Nutanix software.
General Availability of A3 Supercomputer Instances Powered by NVIDIA Is Only Part of the Two Companies’ Collaborative Efforts
Dave Raffo, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the AI partnership between Google Cloud and GPU vendor NVIDIA, highlighted by the general availability launch of NVIDIA-powered A3 GPU virtual machines.
FlashBlade Sales, Subscriptions, AI, and Customer Growth All Contribute to Strong Results
Dave Raffo and Camberley Bates, analysts at The Futurum Group, share their insights on Pure Storage’s Q2 fiscal 2024 revenue success, driven by strong FlashBlade sales, AI deals, and subscriptions.