Author: Ron Westfall

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.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the three-way collaboration between AT&T, DISH, and CableLabs to establish O-RAN Alliance testing and development initiatives at the CableLabs Kyrio facility and how it advances the global O-RAN Alliance mission in making sure the 5G ecosystem achieves the predicable use of open, intelligent, virtualized, and fully interoperable RAN technology.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the three-way collaboration between Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Thales to test and develop 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks to help provide global 5G coverage, including areas currently not served by terrestrial networks, which can make deliver 5G ecosystem benefits such as making 5G smartphones that next incarnation of satellite phones.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine how NEC’s acquisition of Aspire Technology augments NEC’ s systems integration offering for Open RAN 5G applications, gaining the expertise and assets needed to deliver increased levels of system design and integration across 5G environments, including especially 5G standalone networks.

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