Author: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Juniper’s financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2022 and why they validate the company is sustaining market-wide momentum and executing its strategic vision under CEO Rami Rahim’s leadership. From their perspective, the results are impressive as Juniper delivered a second consecutive quarter of double-digit YoY growth, a record performance by the enterprise business, and its second-highest cloud revenue quarter.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall reviews the new multi-stage framework of the Red Hat and OCI alliance and why the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can advance their joint customers’ future-forward computing journeys on Red Hat Enterprise Linux while also protecting existing IT investments.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the SaaS-driven ecosystem of Amdocs Subscription Marketplace diversifies the pre-integrated digital services choices of CSPs to broaden ecosystem collaboration in developing and monetizing more flexible, creative service packages including business/WFH, enhanced entertainment, streaming, security, and storage applications.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Juniper Apstra release further sharpens Apstra’s IBN capabilities, especially in providing a unified solution that can streamline the design, development, deployment, and operation of data center networks while continuously validating that the network remans aligned with prioritized business outcomes. This includes bringing together the operations and architecture units, decreasing human capital constraints and reliability concerns while accelerating deployment and activation.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s family of Prestera DX1500 TSN switches combine enterprise-grade visibility tools with accurate visibility of time-sensitive operational technology solutions critical to accelerating adoption of TSN visibility tools and can further boost the addressable market of Marvell’s Secure Deterministic Ethernet solution.
In our latest research brief, Intelligent Edge Demands Make High-Performance Memory and Storage Essential — done in partnership with Micron — Futurum Analysts Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall explore the intelligent edge ecosystem, the embedded business market, and the technologies that will play an integral role in optimizing edge capabilities now and in the future.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Amdocs Charging provides the retail and wholesale charging systems key to fulfilling the burgeoning monetization goals of the 5G ecosystem. From my perspective, LNO support demonstrates the pivotal role Amdocs Charging can play in delivering the flexible configuration, launch, management, and monitoring capabilities as well as the charging orchestration flow composition and partner integration key to advancing MNO 5G monetization objectives.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why NEC/Netcracker’s CGF solution using DigitalRoute CGF capabilities is critical to advancing NTT DOCOMO’s 5G monetization goals in key areas, such as streamlining billing processes, advancing BSS modernization, and assuring the swift monetization of new 5G services.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Cisco IoT Control Center provides the foundation for Cisco to capitalize on the fast-growing global IoT market, particularly across major verticals and capabilities such as 5G private networks, connected cars, smart meters, predictive maintenance, fleet management, home security, and payment solutions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Ericsson Private Networks is now better positioned to meet the distinct requirements of enterprises seeking a software-defined solution with simpler management that can ease the adoption of CBRS spectrum in the build out and expansion of their private networks.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why CSP sustainability initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help accelerate adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and beyond, and how Mavenir is well-positioned to take advantage of CSP sustainability priorities to advance ecosystem-wide Open RAN adoption.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Intel’s new 4th Gen Xeon CPU cores and Max Series CPUs/GPUs in combination with an agile, vast array of built-in accelerators can deliver performance breakthroughs, efficiency advances, and new total cost of operation benefits throughout swiftly expanding and evolving network and edge environments. The new solutions underscore Intel’s commitment to a workload-first portfolio development strategy which bodes well for the company’s ongoing organization-wide turnaround mission.

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