Author: Ron Westfall

November 3, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Pluribus Networks and ITRenew Team Up to Smash TCO while Improving Sustainability for Private Cloud Infrastructure

ITRenew augments its suite of networking solutions with Pluribus Networks’ Adaptive Cloud Fabric providing advanced and sustainable network solutions with the agility and efficiency of open architecture that deliver the cost-effective performance and energy efficiencies needed to power multiple and fast expanding workloads across data center environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Pluribus Networks and ITRenew partnership delivers TCO, sustainability, and supply chain reliability and can demonstrate a competitive advantage over some conventional OEM solutions and how their collaboration across the OCP also assures open-source flexibility for enterprise and CSP customers.

5G, Workplace Collaboration

November 3, 2021

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

T-Mobile Spotlights T-Mobile Park as 5G-Powered AR/XR Showcase

For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the cutting edge 5G capabilities that T-Mobile is showcasing at T-Mobile Park, home to Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners and why 5G-powered Augmented Reality (AR) experiences and 5G Mixed Reality (XR) application are ready to deliver immersive and interactive sports venue experiences.

5G, AR/VR, Communications Networks, Emerging Technologies

November 2, 2021

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

The 5G Factor: 5G Powered Fan Experiences, 5G Industry News, and a Look at Some of the Newest 5G-Related Partnerships – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, The 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover 5G industry news, announcements coming out of this week’s MWC event, along with news about how 5G is being used in stadiums to power better fan experiences. They also cover recently announced partnerships, including those between Samsung and Ciena, Nothing and Qualcomm, IBM and Cisco/Palo Alto Networks and Rakuten/Intel and Juniper, then wrap with a short overview of the sessions Shelly moderated at this week’s AT&T’s Business Summit event.

5G, Communications Networks

October 29, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres Provides the Security and Containerization Keys to Hybrid Cloud Success

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 to achieve successful cloud journeys. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres proposition fulfills the portability, security, and speed requirements key to the containerization and modernization of enterprise hybrid cloud implementations.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

October 28, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch Launch Aims to Shatter Centralized Security Appliance Chokepoints

Aruba, a HPE company, introduced its CX 10000 Distributed Services Switch, aimed at enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined stateful services where data is created and processed, with the goal of eliminating legacy appliances and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by modern applications and IT organizations. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new solution is a clearly differentiated competitive threat to centralized security appliance solutions and could make further inroads by making TCO benefits more tangible, demonstrating portfolio ability to comprehensively administer any switch/server/appliance fabric scenario, and sharpen the advantages and role of the Distributed Services Switch in relation to alternative SmartNIC/DPU implementations.

Cloud, Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

October 22, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

New Futurum Research Report – HPE GreenLake for VDI: The Optimal Choice for On-premises Cloud Services

VDI is ready to make new inroads as organizations must fully align their operations and business processes to the digital workplace demands of the post-pandemic hybrid workforce and hybrid cloud era. Futurum Research analyzes why it identifies HPE GreenLake for VDI as the best value for meeting today’s foremost VDI challenges due to new capabilities such as the ability to deploy directly into the customer data center or colocation facility, combining the software and hardware required to keep desktops close to users and applications, assuring an optimized desktop experience.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

October 22, 2021

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

Nokia Addresses the Alarming Increase in DDoS Attacks

Security

October 21, 2021

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

Vodafone’s Multi-Million Market NB-IoT Deal is, Well, Pretty Massive

5G, Communications Networks

October 20, 2021

Ron Westfall

Analyst Insight

Why AI is Essential to Enabling the Success of 5G Networks

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why developing and applying AI innovation to mobile networks, especially 5G network design and build, is becoming an increasingly essential part of of success.