Author: Dave Raffo

Tanase Will Oversee the Company’s Product Vision and Development
The Futurum Group’s Dave Raffo and Camberley Bates examine Hitachi Vantara’s hiring of new CPO Octavian Tanase and the storage company’s vision to become a hybrid cloud infrastructure leader.
In our latest report, Market Insight Report: Hybrid Cloud Compute Q4 2023, we analyze how infrastructure vendors and hyperscalers are tailoring their products and services to hybrid clouds, as well as the major trends we are seeing around repatriation, cost optimization, and generative AI.
Hyperscaler Promoted Public Cloud and Partnered for On-Premises Storage
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks back at the year in cloud storage, which saw hyperscalers focus largely on helping companies use unstructured data for AI.
In our latest research brief, Where You Build and Run Your Applications Matters, done in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we analyze how hyperscalers’ infrastructure should be a key consideration for organizations placing applications in public clouds.
Move Could Pressure AWS and Azure to Follow
Steven Dickens and Dave Raffo at The Futurum Group examine what Google Cloud’s decision to eliminate egress fees means to customers, Google, and its rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure; plus, the role government regulation may have played in the decision.
The Number of STaaS Options Grew Considerably in 2023 as Major Vendors Significantly Expanded Their Consumption Programs
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks at how STaaS and other consumption programs expanded in 2023 and how these have changed the way IT teams purchase infrastructure.
In our latest Market Insight Report, Mainframe Ecosystem Q4 2023, we analyze how the influence of hyperscalers brings fundamental shift to mainframe market and other mainframe trends.
New ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem Improve AI and Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, adds his insights to Lenovo’s new ThinkAgile HCI, ThinkSystem server, and TruScale services launched to take advantage of Intel’s latest AI-enhanced CPUs.
The Hardware and Software Upgrades Give File System and Hardware Performance and Training Bumps
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares insights on Dell’s PowerScale NAS update and what it means to its generative AI strategy.
Hyperscaler Adds New Tiers, Performance Bumps for Unstructured Data
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks at file and object storage announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 and how they fit with the hyperscaler’s generative AI strategy.
In our latest research brief, Better Together: Data Quality and Data Observability, done in partnership with IBM, we analyze how data workers and engineers can gain fast and scalable insights into data across an enterprise with the right data quality tools.
Kyndryl Signs on as Global Managed Service Provider for Mainframes
Steven Dickens and Dave Raffo of The Futurum Group dive into the new global managed services partnership between Kyndryl and AWS around mainframe modernization announced at AWS re:Invent.

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