Author: Ron Westfall

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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