Author: Ron Westfall

Why Lenovo Smart Manufacturing Solutions Are Ready to Drive AI-enabled Transformation
January 31, 2025

Why Lenovo Smart Manufacturing Solutions Are Ready to Drive AI-enabled Transformation

The Futurum Group’s latest research report, Why Lenovo Smart Manufacturing Solutions Are Ready to Drive AI-enabled Transformation, completed in partnership with Lenovo and Intel, explores why smart manufacturing solutions offer...
DeepSeek Disrupts AI Market with Low-Cost Training and Open Source, Yet Many Questions Loom
January 30, 2025

DeepSeek Disrupts AI Market with Low-Cost Training and Open Source, Yet Many Questions Loom

The Futurum Group analysts share their insights on DeepSeek R1 claims of model training and cost efficiency, questions about the potential use of competitors' models, and security and privacy concerns....
Boost Mobile, Cisco, Nokia, & More - Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor
January 28, 2025

Boost Mobile, Cisco, Nokia, & More – Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor

Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the 2025 kickoff 5G ecosystem developments, including Cisco and Boost Mobile's strategic developments and Nokia's security collaboration with NIST....
IBM Power Driving Innovation for Core Workloads with AI and Hybrid Cloud
January 23, 2025

IBM Power: Driving Innovation for Core Workloads with AI and Hybrid Cloud

The Futurum Group’s latest research report, IBM Power: Driving Innovation for Core Workloads with AI and Hybrid Cloud, completed in partnership with IBM, examines why IBM’s commitment to ongoing investment...
2025 5G Prospects - Open RAN, D2C & DOOH - Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor
January 21, 2025

2025 5G Prospects – Open RAN, D2C & DOOH – Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor

Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the promising prospects of 5G in 2025, including Open RAN evolution and the strategic leverage of DOOH advertising....
Oracle Exadata X11M: The Enterprise AI Architecture
January 20, 2025

Oracle Exadata X11M: The Enterprise AI Architecture

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Exadata X11M allows customers to decide where they want to gain the best performance for their Oracle Database workloads from new levels of price performance,...
Marvell Unveils CPO Innovations Prepared to Drive XPU Architecture Breakthroughs
January 14, 2025

Marvell Unveils CPO Innovations Prepared to Drive XPU Architecture Breakthroughs

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how Marvell’s CPO portfolio can play an integral role in further demystifying applying customization in the XPU architecture design process, incentivizing hyperscalers to develop custom XPUs...
Alianza Expands, Ericsson Antennas Wax, Nokia 5G Advanced Moves - Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor
December 27, 2024

Alianza Expands, Ericsson Antennas Wax, Nokia 5G Advanced Moves – Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor

Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth delve into why Alianza, Ericsson, and Nokia are making pivotal moves to enhance their 5G strategy, highlighting the broader implications for the ecosystem and future...
Are Wide Area Networks Ready to Drive Sustainability Success?
December 20, 2024

Are Wide Area Networks Ready to Drive Sustainability Success?

Ron Westfall, Research Director, Futurum examines why Juniper offers the best-in-class solutions essential to success for enlisting the WAN in fulfilling organization-wide sustainability objectives....
The Cloud’s Leading Role in AI Processor Investments and AI Use Cases
December 17, 2024

The Cloud’s Leading Role in AI Processor Investments and AI Use Cases

The Furturm Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why cloud service providers are investing substantially in AI processors and accelerator technology and powering AI use cases in The Cloud’s Leading Role in...
Marvell HBM Compute Architecture Ready to Transform Cloud AI Acceleration
December 16, 2024

Marvell HBM Compute Architecture Ready to Transform Cloud AI Acceleration

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Marvell’s new HBM customization solutions can play a crucial role in driving XPU innovation, particularly for AI and high-performance computing applications that require extreme memory...
Tenstorrent's Funding Include Bezos Expeditions, Samsung, LG
December 16, 2024

Tenstorrent Ready to Storm AI Chip Market

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Tenstorrent’s new funding can spur consistent competitive differentiation of its AI chips against GPUs....

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