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HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise: Delivering Real Value Across the Hybrid and Multi Cloud Ecosystem

In our latest research brief, HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise: Delivering Real Value Across the Hybrid and Multi Cloud Ecosystem, done in partnership with HPE, we analyze how HPE’s managed service solution deftly aligns with the full-fledged ecosystem-wide transition to the hybrid cloud model including ongoing cloud repatriation.
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Intel x86 Architecture: Architectural Consistency – The Best Assurance in Avoiding Costly New Support Structures

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman evaluate the x86 architecture and why they believe having the largest footprint in public and private clouds, provides testament to the trust and long-standing relationship between Intel and the ecosystem and allows organizations to avoid mixing microprocessor architectures from different vendors, such as Arm, thereby creating more challenges, risks, and cost, across their private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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GlobalFoundries and Lockheed Martin Put the National Security Into the US Chipset Supply Chain

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why the collaboration between GlobalFoundries and Lockheed Martin directly benefits from the duo’s trusted partner status across the aerospace and defense industries, reaffirming the national security credentials of the partnership in reliably and securely providing the semiconductors vital to mission-critical security systems.
Daniel Newman & Ron Westfall

Oracle Fiscal Q4 and FY 2023 Results: Oracle Showcases Cloud and AI Mettle in Delivering Record Full-Year Revenue

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess why they regard Oracle’s fiscal Q4 and FY 2023 results as impressive since they validate that the company is a vital player in powering innovation and accelerating adoption across the multi-cloud and AI ecosystems. In meeting the swiftly evolving demands of the multi-cloud era, Oracle is focusing on building out a cloud ecosystem that delivers the next generation of interconnect technology providing a solid foundation to fuel the sustained growth of its cloud business.
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Cisco Live 2023: Cisco and AT&T Join Forces to Elevate Mobile Experience for Hybrid Workforces

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why AT&T and Cisco are meeting the new demands of the hybrid workforce era through their new joint offerings highlighted by mobile-first capabilities such as native integration of Webex Calling with the AT&T Mobile Network, SD-WAN with add-on 5G and broadband, and self-service digital purchasing experiences aimed specifically at SMBs including Cisco Meraki cloud-managed solutions.
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Cisco Live 2023: Cisco Launches AI-Powered Security Cloud to Empower Enterprise Security Teams

The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why Cisco can be the trusted partner that enterprises rely on to advance their AI-powered security cloud journey. Cisco Secure Access in combination with new security offerings such as Cisco Firewall 4200 Series, Cisco Multicloud Defense, and Panoptica, fulfill the topmost security priorities of enterprises, assuring that the security and IT teams can streamline their overall security implementations by delivering swifter detection and response, single cloud-managed console, and common access experience capabilities.
Daniel Newman & Ron Westfall

Pure Storage Q1 FY 2024 Results: Subscription and All-Flash Breakthroughs Boost Performance

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman explore why they believe Pure Storage is demonstrating the portfolio-wide innovation in key areas such as AI, the partnership dexterity, and data storage ecosystem momentum needed to fulfill its Q2 and FY24 guidance including revenue of $680M in Q2 FY24 and mid to high single digital YoY revenue growth across FY24. Pure is firmly positioned to deliver the modern data experience that puts data to use and enables customers to run their operations on an automated, storage as-a-service model throughout the multi-cloud realm.
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Clearfield Shows the Integral Role Fiber Plays in 5G Evolution

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Clearfield’s fiber backhaul portfolio capabilities can play an integral role in enabling the higher capacity and low bit error rate for 5G backhaul that is key to assuring multi-gigabit (10 Gbps+) performance and ultra-low latency across expanding 5G SA implementations. The steady expansion of 5G SA implementations amid the overall growth of worldwide 5G deployments will fuel more demand and need for Clearfield fiber optic connectivity and management technology across fast-growing 5G backhaul environments.
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Juniper and ServiceNow Deliver AI-powered Automation Now

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why the union of Juniper’s AI-driven network automation with ServiceNow’s service management capabilities can drive broader adoption and deployment of end-to-end automation throughout managed service provider and enterprise network build and operational environments.
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5G Factor: Nokia’s Progress in the Fed Market, FCC Says No to Dish, Ericsson and 5G Core, and Cisco and NTT Help Orgs Advance Sustainability Goals

In this week’s episode of The 5G Factor, The Futurum Group analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Nokia’s progress in the Fed market, FCC’s decision on 12 GHz spectrum that impacts Starlink and Dish, Ericsson and what the company is doing collaboratively with 5G core, and the partnership between NTT and Cisco designed to serve customers by using NTT’s Edge as a Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT capabilities, helping organizations advance their sustainability goals.
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Ericsson Uplifts OSS/BSS-driven Service Exposure: The API Monetization Dimension

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Vonage’s plans to support enhanced security services as vital to fulfilling Ericsson’s vision of further tightening the integration of CSP OSS/BSS to improve collaboration with partners and enterprises in exposing services that uses the API aggregation capabilities key to producing enduring service creation and monetization.
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The Future of AI is Hybrid: Look No Further than Your Devices to Scale Generative AI

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses Qualcomm’s outlook that hybrid AI is essential to the future AI as the hybrid AI architecture distributes and administers AI workloads among cloud and edge devices, rather than processing in the cloud only, enabling the cloud and edge devices, including smartphones, IoT devices, and PCs to work together at providing more powerful, efficient, and highly optimized AI.
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