Author: Ron Westfall

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.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess why the OpsRamp acquisition will likely be smooth and swift, as OpsRamp was already part of Hewlett Packard Pathfinder’s venture capital investment initiative, a strategic partner in the HPE Partner Ready Program, with OpsRamp’s AIOps-powered solution currently intertwined throughout an array of HPE solutions and go-to-market strategies. Now OpsRamp's observability, monitoring, and remediation capabilities can expand HPE GreenLake’s hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystem influence, multi-vendor integration acumen, and AIOps credentials across the fast-expanding ITOM market.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Lenovo is delivering the portfolio mix and marketing focus key to making further inroads across the enterprise storage market segment and raising storage ecosystem awareness of adopting new capabilities that can also prove integral in fulfilling their organization-wide strategic sustainability and cybersecurity goals.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Qualcomm has the mobile ecosystem influence and channels to accelerate adoption of trinamiX Face Authentication solution, developed to provide virtually un-hackable face authentication, as it unveiled the trinamiX solution on its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 reference design at Snapdragon Summit 2022, providing the impetus to spur keen interest and momentum across the manufacturing space with new go-to-market announcements expected in 2023.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Spectrum Enterprise is delivering the network platform development, partnership development focus, and “Be Unreasonable” marketing strategy key to broadening its nationwide presence across new markets, further raising brand awareness, building a distinctive client experience, enhancing distribution channels, and rendering the network an invaluable asset throughout the digital ecosystem.

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