Author: Ron Westfall

Ericsson enters into agreement for $6.2 billion cash offer to acquire Vonage, a provider of cloud-based communications, propelling Ericsson’s strategy to boost its wireless enterprise channel influence and broaden its global offerings. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Ericsson’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage can disrupt the crowded CPaaS market segment, spur API-driven 5G/4G innovation across the enterprise wireless realm, and provide the foundation to advance ecosystem-wide open network innovation.
Futurum Research believes that the HPE GreenLake platform is the best solution to meet the growing demand across organizations to balance their workloads across colocation, on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud environments. For many organizations, the cloud journey has proven challenging, and HPE GreenLake with colocation provides the practical capabilities and solutions needed to advance digital transformation, while meeting business outcomes and sustainability goals.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, our weekly webcast focused on all things 5G, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk news out of Qualcomm’s Investor Day 2021 event, the bipartisan Infrastructure bill and what that means for expanding broadband and 5G connectivity across the nation, as well as data out of the GSMA report: 2021 The Mobile Economy North America and the impact 5G technologies is making and will continue to make moving forward.
Organizations are accelerating the containerization and modernization of their hybrid clouds to attain the deep insights, expanded agility through portability, pre-enabled security, high availability, and open platform capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres proposition fulfills the portability, security, and speed requirements critical to enabling ISVs to take advantage of the design once, deploy many implementation principles that fulfills their customer’s containerization and multi-cloud requirements with sizable cost savings.
Groq demonstrates its technology enabled the acceleration of compute timelines from days to seconds at Argonne National Laboratory in its COVID drug discovery initiative. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Groq potentially gains a significant sales and marketing boost from its Argonne National Laboratory collaboration, especially in demonstrating the Groq solutions performance advantage over established GPU products as well as potentially fulfilling compute acceleration for an expanding array of AI and machine learning use cases and missions.
Futurum analyst Ron Westfall evaluates Betacom’s 5G as a Service offering and private wireless network portfolio, providing comprehensive plan, design, build, and operate capabilities and the competitive advantage they might well provide in driving broader adoption across industry verticals.
Cloudera and NVIDIA are now offering RAPIDS Edition ML Runtimes to make it simpler for data scientists to use Cloudera Machine Learning to work with NVIDIA GPUs, bypassing the impediments of needing to configure CUDA drivers and library dependencies. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into how the augmented Cloudera NVIDIA alliance could expand data science community adoption of running more data science pipelines on NVIDIA GPU infrastructure to improve their data-driven operations over CPU implementations, particularly for massive cloud data workload applications and scaling out for large processes.
Juniper extends AI-powered support to entire Junos portfolio to streamline operator efficiencies and augment end user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Support Insight offering spotlights the capabilities of its AI assets and provides more cohesion across Juniper’s portfolio-wide marketing outreach including delivering the benefits of Experience-First Networking.
Radisys launched Release 16 5G New Radio software that delivers the capabilities needed to spur CSP and enterprise support of 5G use cases across multiple industry verticals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Radisys is capitalizing on the enhanced R16 features, such as MU-MIMO, DSS, beamforming, key to spurring Open RAN adoption and ecosystem-wide 5G innovation.
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the partnership between Qualcomm and Nothing, a start-up founded by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei and dedicated to building a world without barriers between people and technology.

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