Author: Ron Westfall

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.
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.
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.
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.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Nokia’s introduction of a full range of energy efficiency improvements across its radio access network products at MWC 2023 are making a positive contribution toward improving both the company’s and the telecommunications industry’s overall environmental performance. In view of the UN IPCC release of the Synthesis Report, which found worldwide greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase, taking strategic steps to motivate the telecommunications industry to up its game takes on paramount importance.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how the launch of Vonage AI Acceleration Suite shrewdly syncs and capitalizes on the growing demand across organizations and developers to use AI capabilities that can bolster business outcomes and overall user experiences. The new suite also validates Ericsson’s strategic commitment to increase R&D across Vonage’s UCaaS and CCaaS portfolio assets, with the goal of aiding current mobile operator customers to sell through their own brands.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why the Juniper ACX7000 family merits top consideration due to its ability to deliver sustainable business outcomes for operators and network users across key areas such as over 70% lower power consumption, over 70% lower TCO, more than 50% improvement in space efficiency, and longer system lifecycles.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore why Cloud Metro is becoming the “New Edge” and how edge computing’s total addressable market of a half trillion dollars ($500 billion) by 2030 fuels more demand for cloud metro solutions where connectivity, edge cloud hosting, and powering service experience outcomes are all expected to converge.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why MySQL HeatWave is demonstrably expanding the range of machine learning use cases it supports as customers can now build classification and regression models, multi-variate time series forecasting, unsupervised anomaly detection, and recommendation systems as well as how the new innovations reinforce MySQL HeatWave on AWS price performance advantages, such as leveraging real-time data and training models 25X faster than Amazon Redshift ML at one percent of the cost.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Qualcomm is playing an integral role in driving the innovation behind the new WiFi 7 features that provide substantial improvements over previous versions, including a wide array of different measures designed to optimize mesh networking performance, which can help accelerate wireless ecosystem-wide adoption of WiFi 7.
Futurum senior analysts Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens provide their take on the latest updates from Oracle on its OCI-focused Kubernetes offering, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes. In a congested market for cloud-native orchestration and management, Oracle has refreshed and enhanced its OKE offering and focused on security and improved pricing with a view to securing more share of the cloud-native marketplace and reinforcing its public cloud platform.
Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall’s latest episode of The 5G Factor takes a deep dive into Juniper Cloud Metro and the role it can play in 5G evolution.

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