Author: Ron Westfall

In this latest research brief, Dell CloudIQ: Using AIOps to Make Digital Transformation and Multicloud Journeys Smarter — created in collaboration with Dell Technologies — Futurum analyst Ron Westfall offers insight into the current state of IT environments, AIOps, and how organizations are looking to do more with less. We also explore potential solutions that can help fulfill the needs of enterprises today.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why HPE GreenLake can easily meet the growing demand across organizations to balance their cloud workloads across colocation, on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud environments as well as provide the practical capabilities and solutions needed to advance their cloud journey regardless of their situation.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres features data masking, transparent data encryption, and dedicated audit log, combined with its range of expert database services, are key to preventing disruptive and costly security breaches as well as the agility to shut down fast-changing cybersecurity threats, including containerized databases that provide a critical missing link in high-velocity DevSecOps cycles, allowing development and operations teams to collaborate using container management platforms to optimize organization-wide data protection.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Volvo and SAIC OEM deals in combination with CES 2023 sales and marketing momentum enables Luminar to execute effectively on CEO Austin Russell’s vision for the company as well as raise the market profile of Iris lidar technology and its use of a single 1550nm fiber laser, further sharpening differentiation with 905nm solutions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Dell’s Concept Nyx initiative explores how virtual worlds and immersive experiences could develop into new ways to connect with others as well as our content, especially in alignment with the ability to intuitively distribute headset-free XR/VR content across any preferred screen and capitalizing on the market potential for headset-free XR applications such as 5G-enabled holography.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Intel’s new 13th Gen mobile processors, HX, H-series, P-series, and U-series, are poised to transform the overall laptop experience including making further inroads throughout the gaming and creator communities, while providing key differentiation against key rival AMD and its Ryzen 7000 series processors.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why Dell has elevated its overall sustainability credentials by putting product development and sales and marketing emphasis on AI’s key role in advancing customer sustainability initiatives, and why AI technology itself requires its own energy efficiency and sustainability program.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why T-Mobile and Cisco’s collaboration on a distributed nationwide cloud native 5G core gateway enables T-Mobile to rapidly test and accelerate time to market for new 5G and IoT applications at scale including network slicing and Voice over New Radio (VoNR), streamlines operations, increases agility to help drive new services such as 5G Home Internet as well as provides Cisco a substantial 5G sales and marketing boost.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Lattice Avant launch sharpens Lattice’s ability to capture more mid-range FPGA business and drive innovation across the system and application developer communities, especially in addressing the growing demand for increased flexibility and efficiency in system and application design, while also delivering architectural advancements and capabilities that meet customers’ requirements in scaling and administering an expanding array of applications.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer review the state of the telco cloud market during the early stages of the CSP transition toward 5G SA and 5G Advanced networks and their perspective on which cloud providers are performing well and have the most to gain across the evolving 5G ecosystem.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine why Qualcomm and Vodafone joint solution designs aimed at catalyzing Open RAN deployments in Europe are ready to improve power consumption performance to reduce TCO and make networks more environmentally sustainable and why the alliance’s new initiative needs to make Open RAN deployments commercially viable in Europe by the end of 2023 to declare success.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Amazon CodeWhisperer upgrades focused on easing administrator-led integration and expanding programming language support across the developer community advance AWS’ strategic commitment to use AI/ML to improve business outcomes, including augmenting the developer experience, optimizing business processes, and accelerating innovation.

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