Author: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Nokia’s MX Boost technology addresses the growing demand across Industry 4.0 connectivity environments for private wireless capabilities that can flexibly bond 4.9G/5G with Wi-Fi, strengthens its private wireless network portfolio, and can help accelerate key emerging use cases such as Wi-Fi 6 + Wi-Fi 6E and LTE/5G + Wi-Fi 6E.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how Amdocs and AWS provided the AI-enabled, cloud-based business assurance solution that he sees assisting T-Mobile’s merger synergies across the vast, intricate Sprint merger process.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall evaluates the formation of Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub enabling both companies to pool their R&D resources to advance Ericsson Cloud RAN capabilities running on Intel technology, ease CNF application adoption, and provide a roadmap for upcoming commercial software releases as CSPs evolve their RAN strategies in the emerging Open 5G era.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Pure Storage’s new Portworx portfolio enhancements, including general availability of Portworx Data Services, meet growing developer demand for swift ease of use combined with elastic scaling and automated capabilities as well as strict organizational requirements for data protection and access control across fast-growing Kubernetes development environments.
In this research report, Futurum Research examines why in selecting the optimal microprocessor architecture organizations must take a comprehensive approach in understanding the strategic microprocessor architecture powering their implementations. This includes understanding fully that the migration off of x86 to Arm for most companies would prove to be a significant undertaking at a point in where the diverse x86 offerings in market are market tested and trusted by enterprises to run the vast majority of enterprise applications—especially those critical in nature.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Spectrum Enterprise is deftly capitalizing on the resurgence across the hotel and travel industry in the post-pandemic era by promoting its smart hotel managed services offering and the sustainability and security benefits that smart hotel tech can provide hotel organizations.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the VMware alliance with McLaren Racing provides the high-profile engagement key to promoting broader market awareness and acceptance of multi-cloud capabilities and benefits.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall scrutinizes why Intel’s expanded silicon, software, and services portfolio vision boosts its ecosystem influence in powering AI workload optimization and adoption of key emerging applications as well as improve its competitive standing against key rivals.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Qualcomm’s new Qualcomm Robotics RB6 Platform and RB5 AMR Reference Design provide the technological foundation and building blocks to power innovation throughout industries that are planning to optimize robotics through emerging 5G and AI capabilities distributed across the connected intelligent edge.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the T-Mobile Cradlepoint alliance can help streamline business adoption of 5G FWA services nationwide, boost differentiation of the T-Mobile Business Internet service offering, and provide additional warrant for Ericsson’s 2020 acquisition of Cradlepoint.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Marvell’s acquisition of Tanzanite locks in Tanzanite’s Compute Express Link (CXL) technology and expertise that further bolsters Marvell’s CXL platform for cloud data centers. The deal follows on Marvell’s string of successful M&A deals, such as the Innovium and Inphi acquisitions, demonstrating its organization-wide ability to effectively use acquisitions to broaden its addressable market and boost overall competitiveness throughout key markets such as the cloud-optimized silicon market segment.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines Honeywell’s launch of the Honeywell Forge Connected Warehouse solution and new expanded capabilities across existing Honeywell software solutions in the company’s Spring 2022 release and why the offerings can improve the Honeywell Connected Enterprise unit’s ability to increase the company’s presence and influence across key industrial verticals as a trusted software supplier and advisor.

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