Author: Ron Westfall

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.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why HPE is validating its strategic commitment to continue investing in its HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise offering, which enables customers to have more choice in advancing their hybrid cloud and multi-cloud journey in full accord with attaining a simple, flexible, and intuitive experience for operating their modern private clouds.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Oracle’s distributed cloud strategy with sovereign cloud deployment options, such as new EU Sovereign Cloud, is the optimal approach to fulfill the various needs of customers. The EU Sovereign Cloud is located entirely within the EU, supported by EU-based personnel, and operated by separate legal entities incorporated within the EU. Integral to OCI’s distributed cloud strategy, EU Sovereign Cloud is ready to provide a new option to fulfill key regulatory data sovereignty requirements.
Qualcomm, Schneider Electric, and Capgemini collaborate on advancing 5G private network innovation by replacing wired connections with wireless and unifying existing wireless connections, positioning 5G private networks to increasingly simplify and optimize digital technology deployment at scale throughout industrial sites such as automation of hoisting systems as well as emerging use cases focused on critical communications, augmented operator, and drones.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell is advancing Automotive Ethernet innovation to fulfill the evolving demands of the software-defined vehicle era. Through the new Brightlane Q622x switch family, Marvell is enabling automakers to expedite their adoption of the central Automotive Ethernet technologies that are key to implementing zonal architectures, which reduce bill of materials space and cost in full accord with bandwidth breakthroughs and comprehensive security assurances.

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