Author: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Ericsson’s introduction of its Service Continuity AI app suite can provide the automation capabilities that CSPs require to improve overall network efficiency and resiliency across their operations and business processes especially for 5G standalone builds.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Apstra Freeform offering is well positioned to unify experiences across vendors and automate essential data center workflows as well as ease multivendor data center automation and management builds.
5G monetization is gaining momentum as CSPs accelerate deployment of 5G standalone networks and emerging 5G services and use cases are ready to produce significant 5G monetization outcomes. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the top market shapers, selection criterion, use cases, and solution providers that are powering 5G monetization adoption and deployment throughout the mobile ecosystem.
Marvell Technologies debuted its LiquidSecurity 2 HSM adapted solution aimed at easing adoption of HSM technology in the cloud by offering breakthrough cryptographic acceleration, processing, and hardware-secure storage capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Amer Haider explore why Marvell’s new LS2 solution provides the key storage scalability, transaction processing performance advances, and TCO benefits to spur broader ecosystem adoption of HSM technology including HSM-as-a-service.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk Lumen’s new CEO hire, Mavenir and Deutsche Telekom’s new alliance, Starlink’s fight with the FCC, T-Mobile and Starlink partnering to bring enhanced connectivity to underserved areas, and T-Mobile’s deals for Apple fan girls and boys.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why Dell’s Project Alpine enables customers to use the APIs and management tools they already use, avoiding the expense and complexity of refactoring applications or reskilling workforces to drive their multi-cloud journey. As such, customers can combine their preferred public cloud services with Dell Technologies’ enterprise data services to attain uncompromised connectivity and consistent experience deploying Dell assets such as PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerFlex and ObjectScale on-prem to optimize their multi-cloud data services.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s new LiquidSecurity 2 solution is well-suited to support enterprises in their journey from on premise hardware security module (HSM) implementations to multi-cloud and private cloud environments due to key factors such as providing the latest FIPS-certified security boundary, critical for safeguarding cloud-scale applications across private and public clouds while also delivering cost, energy efficiency, and performance advances.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Oracle MySQL HeatWave on AWS solution provides the single database platform that fulfills topmost customer transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning demands and delivers definitive price performance advantages over rival solutions including Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Synapse.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Pure Storage’s financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 and why they demonstrate that Pure Storage is fulfilling customer requirements for solutions that deliver data storage benefits such as energy and space savings and broader integration of automation as well as powering its path of continued growth and assuring improved customer business outcomes.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall considers the mobile ecosystem implications of the T-Mobile SpaceX Above and Beyond initiative and its potential role in advancing satellite-to-phone communications that seek to diminish dead zones across global mobile coverage.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Nokia Google collaboration to deliver network slicing capabilities to Android 13 devices, such as Google Pixel 6 (Pro), can provide the network slicing innovations key to unlocking CSP delivery of innovative use case-specific 4G/5G services and applications.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Exchange cloud-native solution provides the policy-driven, zero-trust capabilities that can augment emerging enterprise 5G experiences and WAN services with SD-WAN and Zero Trust through the flexible delivery of multiple SD-WAN and security services bolstered by the backing of Ericsson’s 5G portfolio expertise and global channel resources.

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