Author: Ron Westfall

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.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer break down the results of Opensignal’s recent testing of 5G network speeds and capabilities among T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon and why the test results showing T-Mobile a clear winner in categories such as round speeds, download speeds, and 5G connectivity durability provide a solid sales and marketing boost for T-Mobile.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer review the T-Mobile Oceus alliance aimed at meeting primarily at meeting U.S. Department of Defense 5G network requirements in areas such as AR/VR, maintenance and logistics, training, and active operations, providing a marketing boost for T-Mobile’s 5G Advanced Network Solutions managed services and Oceus government and military expertise.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses ZohoDay 2022 and covers the analyst summit’s SMB panel consisting of Zoho customers Counter Culture, Hera Hub, and Zoomcar. The panel discussion shows how some SMB customers use Zoho solutions to meet their distinct challenges and attain better business outcomes, evidencing yet another reason for Zoho’s compelling value prop across the customer spectrum — regardless of company size.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer review the finalization of Ericsson’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage and why it strengthens Ericsson’s ability to use the Vonage API Platform to meet growing enterprise, CSPs, and end user demand for innovative apps and services that change how business is conducted and augment experiences across 5G environments.

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