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Ron Westfall

Oracle Database Analyst Summit: Powering the Multi-Cloud Era and Liberating Developers

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses the key takeaways from the Oracle Database Analyst event and examines why Oracle’s multi-cloud and developer breakthroughs strengthen the company’s competitive position in the unfolding multi-cloud era, especially as enterprise customers increase their demand for streamlined multi-cloud interconnectedness and developers takes advantage of Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release and JSON Relational Duality innovations.
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T-Mobile Q1 2023: Once Again Excels in the Postpaid and Broadband Growth Categories to Fuel Q1 Service Revenues and Raise 2023 Outlook

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess T-Mobile’s Q1 2023 results and why they expect T-Mobile to fulfill its uplifted 2023 guidance as the company is consistently outperforming its key rivals across the most important categories, including financial, technical, and customer attraction and retention. The acquisition of the Mint Mobile, Ultra Mobile, and Plum assets in accord with major collaboration initiatives involving key partners such as Deutsche Telekom and Cisco further strengthen T-Mobile’s competitive edge and warrant for raising its outlook through end of year.
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5G Factor Video Research Note: Nokia Advances Company Vision and Strategy at MWC Barcelona

Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore why they see Nokia bolstering its overall competitive position, especially across the mobile ecosystem, through its six strategic pillars underpinned by key enablers, can help swiftly broaden Nokia’s overall digital ecosystem influence and presence.
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The 5G Factor: T-Mobile and Samsung, Nokia’s Revised Brand/Strategy, Vodafone and Raspberry Pi, and 5G Sustainability Report Overview

In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover what’s new in the 5G ecosystem, including news about T-Mobile and Samsung, Nokia’s refreshed brand and strategy and why that’s significant, Vodafone and Raspberry Pi, and a peek at our findings in our latest market insight report on 5G and Sustainability.
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Marvell Breaks on Through to the 3nm Process Realm

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why the Marvell and TSMC partnership to deliver Marvell’s new 3nm portfolio can broaden and catalyze data infrastructure ecosystem adoption of Marvell interconnect, SerDes, and parallel interface capabilities as computing system applications, such as cloud, AI, networking, 5G, automotive, and custom solutions, expand in scope, intricacy, and use case range.
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Nokia Fiscal Q1 2023: India 5G, Optical, and Enterprise Shine

The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall assess Nokia’s fiscal Q1 2023 results, highlighted by Nokia delivering a solid start to 2023 with Q1 net sales growing nine percent in constant currency due primarily to India 5G, Optical, and Enterprise delivering robust performance, as well as how ongoing portfolio-wide energy efficiency initiatives bolster Nokia’s strategic goal of turning ESG fulfillment into an enduring competitive edge.
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OCI and Druid Software Ready to Stimulate Private 5G Network Uptake

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why OCI and Druid Software can make inroads in the tightly contested private 5G network market through OCI’s support of flexible shapes for telco workloads including right-sizing the number of cores and amount of memory in 1-core or 1-GB increments when enterprise and telco customers use or resize Compute instances. 2023 represents a good year for OCI and Druid to win mindshare and expand their presence in the still burgeoning private 5G network market.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: New Features and Database Portfolio Capabilities Boost Market Momentum

The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the new OCI features further strengthen Oracle’s expectation that the company’s cloud computing portfolio can attain an annual run rate of over $20 billion in fiscal year 2023, building on Oracle’s cloud businesses exceeding $16 billion in annualized revenue, reported during fiscal Q3 2023. The new cloud migration, workload security, and CDN features, in alignment with Oracle Database portfolio enhancements, can reinforce OCI’s key value proposition of right-sizing workloads according to specific customer requirements, moving the data industry away from predetermined inflexible workload parameters imposed by major providers.
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Nyriad and DigitalGlue Boost Media Production Workflow Proposition with TBN Win

Futurum Group's senior analyst Ron Westfall assesses why the TBN deal validates that the joint Nyriad/DigitalGlue solution excels across key media workflow selection criteria such as performance, resilience, efficiency, and ease of deployment and explores how Nyriad and DigitalGlue have delivered a breakthrough solution that demonstrably streamlines end-to-end production workflows, augments collaboration, while minimizing complexity and saving time, fueling sales and marketing momentum for both companies.
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Alibaba Cloud Raises Generative AI Stakes with Tongyi Qianwen Launch

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why Alibaba Cloud is mapping out the strategy required to harness generative AI to advance intelligent enterprise business outcomes and user experience capabilities, as well as keen on monitoring how Alibaba Cloud and China’s regulators address and advance the ethical dimensions of generative AI technology.
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VMware and Mavenir Team Up to Confirm Open RAN is a Team Sport

The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the partnership between VMware and Mavenir can both help fuel and benefit from Open RAN’s worldwide market momentum. CSP initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help fasten adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and into the foreseeable future. Combined with the strategic backing of major CSP operators seeking less reliance on proprietary RAN solutions and more supplier flexibility, the prospects for the VMware-Mavenir duo are brightening in 2023 and throughout the 2020s.
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5G Factor Video Research Note: Juniper Cloud Metro – Why Retro Metro Falls Short and Cloud Metro is Vital to Sustainable Business Growth

Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why the Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio and approach is ready to play an integral role in advancing customer sustainability initiatives, especially as operators as well as the entire mobile ecosystem are strategically committed to meeting their top priority sustainability goals including net zero emissions.
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