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Ron Westfall

Moving BSS Cloud Journeys Forward – Transforming the Monetization Engine of Investment

Moving the BSS cloud journey forward is essential for CSPs to create differentiated and innovative offers and capture revenue in a meaningful way in the ultra-competitive 5G era. Futurum’s Ron Westfall uses the recently released research report “The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain” to analyze why a step-wise approach is essential to advancing and fulfilling challenging BSS cloud journeys and how CSPs can best prepare their organizations to meet the challenges and compete successfully long-term across multi-cloud environments.
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Vodafone and Qualcomm Embark on Vision Quest for Open RAN Vendor Diversification and Swifter 5G Innovation

Vodafone and Qualcomm are collaborating to advance Open RAN MaMIMO RU and DU Platform assimilation to spur Open RAN deployment and adoption. Futurum’s Ron Westfall surveys the ecosystem implications of the Vodafone and Qualcomm collaboration and why it strengthens the Open RAN cause, particularly in providing the blueprint needed to spur supplier diversification, hasten innovation, and lay the foundation for comprehensive Open 5G networking.
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HPE Decides Time Has Come for HPE Storage to Go Full Cloud-Native in Delivering Cloud Data Services

HPE debuts its new data services platform, consisting of Data Services Cloud Console, Cloud data services, and HPE Alletra, now available through HPE GreenLake and targeted at transforming HPE Storage into an agile, cloud-native data services business. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes the competitive advantages of the new HPE data services platform and why it strengthens HPE’s GreenLake proposition, particularly in streamlining data operations from edge to cloud, as well as the competitive implications for chief rivals Dell and IBM.
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Benu Networks’ cnBNG Solution Provides Operators OpenShift Relief

Benu Networks debuts it cloud-native Broadband Network Gateway (cnBNG) using the Red Hat OpenShift K8 container platform, as well as disaggregated routing techniques to ease operator delivery of broadband and 5G edge services and swiftly augment user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into the competitive benefits of the new Benu cnBNG solution and why it bolsters Benu’s cloud-native and 5G ecosystem credentials, especially in hybrid/multi-cloud environments and the service edge, as well as the market potential for advancing broadband provider edge service innovation.
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Marvell Rapidly Strengthens IVN Proposition with New 10G Ethernet PHY Offering

Marvell introduces its new automotive multi-gig automotive Ethernet PHY, the 88Q4346, to advance the availability of smarter, secure, safer, and environmentally sound vehicles as well as bolster its IVN market influence. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the competitive advantages of the new Marvell 10G Ethernet PHY offering and why it strengthens Marvell’s automotive Ethernet portfolio, especially in areas like security, power operations, and speed, as well as Marvell’s influence across the automotive networking industry.
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Rackspace Elastic Engineering Unleashed, With a Goal of Transforming Cloud Managed Services

Rackspace introduces Rackspace Elastic Engineering to meet expanding customer demand for on-demand access to a dedicated pod of cloud engineers that align with their specific cloud implementation requirements as well as improving business outcomes and optimizing DevOps frameworks. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes the competitive benefits of the new Rackspace Elastic Engineering proposition and why it bolsters Rackspace’s managed cloud services credentials, especially in multi-cloud environments, as well as the competitive impact on Rackspace’s key foes.
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Juniper Cloud Metro Introduced, With the Goal of Reimagining Networking for Operators

Juniper unveils its Cloud Metro vision advocating that operators need to refresh their approach to metro architectures to assure an indispensable and prime influential role in the scale out and monetization of swiftly expanding 5G, IoT, and edge services. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes how operators can use Juniper’s portfolio to build massively scalable IP fabrics, embedded service intelligence, and automated, service-assured network slicing to deliver the premium, differentiated services key to determining their own ecosystem destiny in the 5G digital era, as well as the competitive implications for Juniper’s rivals.
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NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G Ecosystem kicks off at NVIDIA GTC 2021, Designed to Turbo Boost 5G Vertical Use Cases

NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G addresses expanding 5G ecosystem demand for collaboration in offering 5G-enabled AI to industry verticals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall appraises NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G collaboration initiative and why it bolsters NVIDIA’s ability to target verticals across the mobile ecosystem by expanding 5G and AI monetization opportunities for CSPs and partners, as well as why NVIDIA needs to counter Intel more directly in the AI meets 5G realm.
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Oracle Cloud Lift Services Provides Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customers a New Workload Lift

Oracle Cloud Lift Services addresses growing customer demand to alleviate the complexity and costs of workload migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses the benefits of the new program in emerging applications areas such as GPU-based Kubernetes management and why customers and prospects need to onboard onto Oracle Cloud Lift Services
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Pluribus Networks Freedom 9000 Series Switches Expansion Openly Drives Disaggregated Network Expansion

Pluribus Networks new Freedom 9000 Series switches expand Pluribus’ addressable market in the data center networking realm and bolster the company’s open source ecosystem influence through their listing on the OCP Solution Provider Marketplace. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes the new Freedom 9000 Series switch offerings and why they strengthen Pluribus Network’s mission to deliver disaggregated scale-out networking for single site and multi-site private and public cloud environments, as well as implications for the competitive landscape.
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Ericsson Open Lab: Engaging with the Mobile Ecosystem to Boost 5G Virtualized RAN Adoption

Ericsson Open Lab addresses expanding 5G ecosystem demand for collaboration in advancing virtualized 5G RAN technology adoption. Futurum’s Ron Westfall takes a look at Ericsson Open Lab and why it boosts Ericsson’s virtualized 5G RAN credentials across the mobile ecosystem by accelerating interactive collaboration with CSPs and partners, as well as what’s at stake for Ericsson’s key rivals.
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Cisco’s Internet for the Future Vision, Inclusively Refreshed

Cisco’s Internet for the Future refresh comes at a good time. Futurum’s Ron Westfall takes a look at how this refreshed vision is vital to bolstering the company’s vision, how the new portfolio capabilities provide a compelling strategy for the digital ecosystem in the 5G era, as well as what’s ahead for Cisco’s key rivals.
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