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Ron Westfall

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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Samsung and Marvell Renew Vows and Co-Develop New SoC

Overall Marvell and Samsung are leading the way in assisting mobile operators deploy 5G with greater efficiency and speed. Their most recent collaboration powers SoC design advancement, enabling operators and enterprises to attain distinct 5G benefits through optimized performance and power savings in network deployments. Through the co-development SoC collaboration with Marvell, Futurum’s Ron Westfall sees Samsung defending its global mobile networking leadership by delivering the Massive MIMO and advanced radio improvements needed to sustain its market gains in the RAN market segment. With the latest innovations, Samsung also strengthens its position to drive operator stepwise journeys to broader Open RAN assimilation.
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Cisco Eases Multicloud Burdens by Making SD-WAN Cloud Hub Part of Google Cloud

The new Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud solution enables Cisco to capture more valuable mind share in the fast-growing SD-WAN market segment, bolstering its ability to claim and defend market share leadership in the fast-evolving SD-WAN space. Futurum’s Ron Westfall shares his insights on what Cisco’s chief SD-WAN rivals, VMware, Fortinet, HPE/Silver Peak, Versa, and Juniper/128T will need to address and explore moving forward.
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Ericsson 5G Core Policy Studio — The Network Programmability Tool Key to 5G Innovation

Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the launch of Ericsson’s 5G Core Policy Studio, designed to deliver the unified single point of access for all network policies with pre-defined templates for service design meeting the burgeoning CSP demand for comprehensive policy visibility, centralized control and automation for efficient operations, and GUI-driven ease of use needed to accelerate time to revenue. It appears as though Ericsson 5G Core Policy is ready to move the needle in the policy management market realm and that the pressure is on for key policy management rivals.
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Pluribus Networks: Driving Ecosystem-wide Disaggregation, Network Virtualization and Controllerless SDN Fabric Adoption

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores recent announcements from Pluribus Networks. The company is delivering the portfolio innovation and ecosystem influence to accelerate SDN automation and disaggregated networking across DC realms. Pluribus Networks’ portfolio commitment and marketing focus on delivering disaggregation, network virtualization, and controllerless SDN automation across DC environments is a key differentiator. For more on Ron’s insights, be sure and read the article.
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