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Ron Westfall

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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5G Factor Video Research Note: Juniper Cloud Metro Does the Heavy Lifting to Deliver the Cloud Goods to Operators

Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss the 5G ecosystem and how Juniper's Cloud Metro represents substantial growth potential, especially when it comes to enterprise data.Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why Juniper Cloud Metro portfolio does the heavy lifting for operators including pooling of server, storage, and switching capabilities throughout cloud fabrics and multicloud implementations as well as scale up and scale out capabilities in the support of nascent network slicing and microservices applications.
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HPE and VAST Data Join Forces to Launch HPE GreenLake for File Storage

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new HPE GreenLake for File Storage offering, fueled by VAST Data DASE architecture capabilities, can provide the intuitive cloud experience vital to simplifying file data management for enterprise IT. By streamlining deployment, easing file share creation, and unifying storage management through a single cloud console, HPE is poised to assure the self-service cloud experience can be accessible from anywhere, on any device, and unhampers enterprise IT workforces from time-consuming complex tasks and focus on delivering strategic business value.
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HPE Expands Alletra Storage Portfolio to Transform File, Block, and Data Protection Services

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the expanded HPE Alletra Storage portfolio gains an immediate competitive boost due to the backing of the HPE GreenLake platform, which brings the cloud to wherever customer application and data live. All the new HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery, and HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery capabilities as well as the new HPE GreenLake for File Storage offering are powered by HPE GreenLake’s access to over 70 cloud services, fulfilling the strategic storage requirements of its customers.
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Oracle Frees Database 23c to Power Universal Modern Apps and Analytics Innovation

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Oracle's Database 23c Free-Developer Release is firmly positioned for positive, receptive and rapid acceptance in the developer community across both Oracle and non-Oracle users, and being able to try the new features in Oracle Database 23c without charge is a compelling part of the value proposition.
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