Author: Ron Westfall

In the latest episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Research production focused on the 5G ecosystem, latest news and trends, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Netcracker and T-Mobile expanding their strategic partnership, T-Mobile keeps winning the 5G speed war, AT&T and Dish win big in the Andromeda Auction, and T-Mobile and renewable energy.
Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services Accelerator is unveiled to bring together design ecosystem partners to deliver a complete spectrum of solutions and services for customers’ design requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how IFA Accelerator combines EDA, IP, and design service capabilities can spur customer silicon innovation and further solidifies Intel’s ability to use its own foundry resources to strengthen its competitive prospects against key rivals like AMD and NVIDIA who must rely on third-party foundries.
Oracle unveils Oracle Database API for MongoDB targeted at easing the running of MongoDB on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new API helps deliver modern document-centric development benefits, proven enterprise functionality, and a wide range of Autonomous DB benefits such as elasticity, security, and availability to MongoDB users.
Juniper unveils Juniper Secure Edge aimed at delivering new capabilities, such as Firewall-as-a-Service, that can ease organization migration to a SASE architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Juniper Secure Edge provides the single-stack, cloud-delivered security and unified management and visibility key to engendering organization transitioning towards a SASE architecture as well as boosting Juniper’s competitive prospects against major security players like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco.
Oracle Cloud Lift Services now supports over 1K organizations in their migration of complex workloads from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Oracle Cloud Lift Services is instrumental in aiding customers with data lakehouse, data analytics, data science design and migration applications, boosting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s overall influence across the cloud ecosystem.
Marvell Technologies OCTEON Fusion line is developed to deliver processing power combined with the enhanced security, packet processing, and traffic management functions needed to power O-RAN innovation across the 5G ecosystem. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Joel Brand examine why Marvell’s merchant silicon OCTEON Fusion offering provides the capabilities and silicon-level differentiation key to attaining breakthrough performance and deployment flexibility across O-RAN environments.
Pluribus Networks unveiled three new fabric offerings, FlowTracker, KubeTracker, and Virtualized Network Packet Broker, as well as Netvisor ONE support on Dell 400 GbE PowerSwitch technology, as integral capabilities in release 7 of its Netvisor ONE OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric portfolio. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Pluribus solutions fulfill the burgeoning demand for comprehensive visibility for all network flows across distributed cloud native applications, especially across container environments, and strengthens Pluribus’ competitive standing against key rivals such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and Extreme.
Juniper Networks introduced its Trio 6 chipsets purpose-developed for the MX series and edge networking applications and the Express 5 chipsets purpose-made for the PTX series and core networking environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Trio 6 and Express 5 chipsets improve Juniper’s overall edge and core networking portfolio in areas such as throughput, logical scaling, deterministic performance, and power efficiencies as well as boosts Juniper’s competitive positioning against key rivals Cisco and Nokia.
HPE GreenLake is selected by CDW to strengthen the CDW ServiceWorks proposition by giving customers elastic operations scaling, flexible DaaS consumption models, and unified administration of organization-wide security policies across hybrid workforce environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new CDW ServiceWorks deal positions HPE GreenLake and CDW to capitalize on growing DaaS adoption in the post-pandemic era as well as expand mind share and competitive prospects across the rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.
Dell Technologies unveiled the expansion of its multi-cloud portfolio aimed at simplifying enterprise multi-cloud journeys. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Dell’s new multi-cloud portfolio capabilities and alliance strengthen its ability to exercise more ecosystem influence in powering enterprise multi-cloud assimilation and counter the multi-cloud solutions of key rivals like HPE and SAP.
Juniper Networks is steadfastly evolving its 5G portfolio development and marketing with emphasis on supporting capabilities such as RIC in driving Open RAN adoption and enabling operator network slicing and use case networking. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Juniper has the portfolio-wide assets in areas such as Metro Cloud, AI, and security to bolster its strategic 5G market message and exercise more influence across the 5G ecosystem in scaling and monetizing operator 5G applications and services.

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