Author: Ron Westfall

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.
T-Mobile US provided a preliminary of critical customer results for Q4 and FY 2021, such as registering its highest postpaid net customer additions and postpaid account net adds in company history for FY 2021. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new breakthrough results strengthen T-Mobile’s competitive position, especially in exercising more influence across the 5G ecosystem as U.S. 5G network builds and customer additions accelerate in the digital workforce era.
Oracle acquires Federos with the objective of delivering comprehensive network and service assurance to CSPs and enterprises in improving their operational efficiency and lowering costs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the Federos acquisition swiftly bolsters Oracle’s Service and Network Orchestration portfolio and how Oracle boosts its competitive prospects in powering broader CSP and enterprise adoption of automated assurance, analytics, and orchestration capabilities.
Intel unveils the 12th Gen Intel Core mobile processors family at CES 2022 highlighted with the launch of eight new mobile H-series processors predicated on Intel’s performance hybrid architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Intel’s new 12th Gen Core mobile processors raise the performance bar across the industry, advances laptop/desktop content creation workload optimization, and enables Intel to take the portfolio differentiation and marketing offensive against key foes AMD and Apple.
The MicroAI Factory AI-driven analytics platform is an agile solution developed to improve manufacturer overall equipment effectiveness by providing actionable, real-time analysis of productivity, machines, and human data. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the overall MicroAI Factory platform fulfills the topmost lifecycle management, operational efficiency, automated reporting, and workflow management requirements that substantially augment the manufacturing processes of the Food and Beverage industry.

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