Author: Ron Westfall

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock explore how chipmakers are powering innovation across the 5G ecosystem including Qualcomm advocacy of operators accelerating their 5G Standalone implementations to spur wider developer interest, Juniper and Intel working together on Juniper’s Beyond Labs initiative to foster 5G transformation, and Samsung and Mediatek demonstrating 3Tx antenna capabilities key to spurring 5G uplink performance and experience.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses how Alteryx gains a sales and marketing boost by enabling finance teams to use AWS to aid the modernization of their financial processes that improves their organization-wide analytical performance. Now organizations can use the cloud capabilities key to the integration of their data with intelligent automation workflows and decision intelligence that can significantly improve business outcomes.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE needed to expand its alliance with Equinix to better capitalize on Equinix’s colocation ecosystem, which currently encompasses thousands of tenants including enterprises, hyperscalers, and CSPs. The HPE move fully aligns with swiftly-growing enterprise and cloud ecosystem demand for broader and more flexible multicloud interconnection, including customers who are opting to integrate their HPE GreenLake environments with their current Equinix deployments.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens examine why the cloud plays a major role across recent 5G ecosystem moves including the Azure for Operators 5G modern connected applications at the edge portfolio development and strategic marketing push.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens examine why the cloud plays a major role across recent 5G ecosystem moves including the completion of the HPE acquisition of Athonet and its implications for the private 5G market and global 5G ecosystem.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens examine why the cloud plays a major role across recent 5G ecosystem moves including Red Hat becoming the primary infrastructure platform for Nokia's core network applications.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens examine why the cloud plays a major role across recent 5G ecosystem moves including Red Hat becoming the primary infrastructure platform for Nokia's core network applications, Azure for Operators 5G modern connected application at the edge push, and the completion of the HPE acquisition of Athonet.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why Nokia and Verizon have the portfolio resources and market vision that are key to helping move the market needle in broadening and advancing the adoption of private wireless networks across the transportation and logistics industrial market segments.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Cisco uplifts its end-to-end Network Assurance as well as Data Center and Provider Connectivity portfolio capabilities with the Accedian and SamKnows acquisitions. Now Cisco, through its ThousandEyes platform and comprehensive visibility portfolio assets, can enhance digital experiences across the global digital ecosystem by minimizing the network disruptions that can undermine business outcomes, diminish productivity, and harm brand reputation.
Marvell Technologies new Brightlane Q622x family of central Automotive Ethernet switches raises the technical and competitive bar for the fast-growing automotive switch category in powering the support of zonal architectures across next-generation software-defined vehicles. The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Amir Bar-Niv examine why Marvell’s new Brightlane switch family delivers future-proof bandwidth, decreases bill of materials space and cost as well as provides breakthrough comprehensive security features.
Futurum Group Research Director, Ron Westfall and Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond examine Qualcomm’s 212S and 9205S modems, which are designed to help manufacturers build products that need excellent satellite and cellular connectivity in rural environments.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses the ways in which Exadata X10M redefines what a cloud database platform should truly deliver, including why running Oracle Database on any other platform than Exadata X10M is basically equivalent to running the software in degraded mode on un-optimized, subpar infrastructure. Now, organizations can run Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M, which brings levels of ML and AI-powered automation and innovation that simply are not available from other cloud database providers.

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