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Oracle Exadata Exascale: Making Data Architecture for Cloud Intelligent
Ron Westfall

Oracle Exadata Exascale: Making Data Architecture for Cloud Intelligent

Oracle Exadata Exascale Debuts Aiming to Unite the Best of Exadata Database Intelligent Architecture and Cloud Elasticity to Boost Performance for Key Workloads
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why the Exadata Exascale debut can be viewed as optimally uniting Exadata with the cloud to provide customers a highly performant, economical infrastructure for their Oracle databases with hyper-elastic resources expanding Oracle’s market by making Exadata attractive to small organizations with low entry configuration and small workload affordability.
5G Factor: OCI, AWS, Google Cloud Make Major Telco Moves
Ron Westfall & Steven Dickens

5G Factor: OCI, AWS, Google Cloud Make Major Telco Moves

Oracle Debuts Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Telco Landing Zone, Google Cloud Motorola Bring GenAI to Razr Smartphones and AWS Seeks Global Roaming
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens examine the recent key 5G-related moves made by the hyperscale cloud providers including Google Cloud and Motorola announcing a new multi-year relationship to bring GenAI to Motorola phones, AWS works with SK Telecom to test outbound roaming across its global infrastructure, and OCI Telco Landing Zone debuts aimed at optimizing telco workloads.
T-Mobile Sets New Standards in Mobile Network Experience
Ron Westfall

T-Mobile Sets New Standards in Mobile Network Experience

T-Mobile Spotlights OpenSignal’s USA Mobile Network Experience Report that Demonstrates Delivering Top Network Performance and 5G Leadership Mobile Connectivity for Users
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assessed why spotlighting OpenSignal’s USA Mobile Network Experience Report provides a strong trajectory for T-Mobile in maintaining and enhancing its mind share and channel influence across key areas of network performance.
Marvell Right Sizes AEC Connections to Meet New AI Acceleration Demands
Ron Westfall

Marvell Right Sizes AEC Connections to Meet New AI Acceleration Demands

Marvell Unveils Alaska A 1.6T PAM4 DSP Aimed at Right Sizing AECs to Fulfill the Fast-Growing AI Accelerator Bandwidth Demands in Cloud Data Centers
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Alaska A 1.6T PAM4 DSP debut strengthens Marvell’s ability to ensure AI accelerators meet the demands for higher bandwidth 200G/lane interconnects underpinned by the industry-wide migration of copper interconnects from DAC to AEC.
Oracle HeatWave GenAI: AI Innovation Without Data Movement or Added Expense
Ron Westfall & Steven Dickens

Oracle HeatWave GenAI: AI Innovation Without Data Movement or Added Expense

Oracle HeatWave GenAI Meets the Clarion Call from Customers to Build Generative AI Applications Without Data Movement, AI Expertise, or Extra Cost
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens assess why Oracle has done vector processing right with the HeatWave GenAI debut by delivering crystal clear price performance advantages against the competition including relentless vector processing performance that is 30X faster than Snowflake, 18X faster than Google BigQuery, and 15X faster than Databricks, at up to 6X lower cost.
5G Factor: BT, Vodafone, Altice Show Deft CSP Moves
Ron Westfall

5G Factor: BT, Vodafone, Altice Show Deft CSP Moves

BT ServiceNow Expand Relation to Elevate CX, Vodafone Germany FlyNex Take to the Drone Skies, and Altice Attains Complexity Relief with Google Cloud
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the deft recent moves of key CSPs including BT Group and ServiceNow expanding their relation to vastly improve CX and workforce experience, Vodafone Germany and FlyNex taking to the drone skies, and Altice using the Google Cloud Application Integration architecture to surmount legacy-borne complexity.
5G Factor: AfO Woes, Cloud RAN Rising, & P5G for Airports
Ron Westfall

5G Factor: AfO Woes, Cloud RAN Rising, & P5G for Airports

Microsoft Scales Back Azure for Operators, Dell and Nokia Bolster Cloud RAN Alliance, and Ericsson Provides Perspective on P5G Boosting Airport Operations
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth assess major 5G ecosystem developments including Microsoft’s dramatic scale back of Azure for Operators unit, Nokia and Dell strengthening their alliance to help accelerate Cloud RAN deployments, and Ericsson spotlight on how P5G can play integral role in streamlining airport operations.
HPE Unveils NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Enterprise AI Ascends
Ron Westfall & Steven Dickens

HPE Unveils NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Enterprise AI Ascends

HPE and NVIDIA Debut “NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE” Portfolio of Co-Developed AI Solutions Led by HPE Private Cloud AI Aimed at Transforming Enterprise AI
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens examine why the strengthened NVIDIA partnership enables HPE to deliver a cohesive and integrated AI ecosystem that meets the needs of modern enterprises, helping them harness the full potential of AI while mitigating associated risks.
Oracle Debuts APEX AI Assistant to Unleash Developer-led AI Innovation
Ron Westfall

Oracle Debuts APEX AI Assistant to Unleash Developer-led AI Innovation

Oracle APEX 24.1 Delivers AI-Assisted App Development Enlisting Oracle’s Data Platform and Low Code Acumen to Fuel Mobile and Web App Innovation
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores that with the introduction of Oracle APEX 24.1, Oracle deftly demonstrates how low code is done right and why GenAI can enable developers to create hardened, mission-critical applications with ease, further spotlighting Oracle’s open and collaborative approach to clouds and application development.
Oracle and Google Cloud Finally Tie the Interconnect Knot
Ron Westfall & Steven Dickens

Oracle and Google Cloud Finally Tie the Interconnect Knot

Oracle and Google Cloud Boost Multi-Cloud Cause with Google Cloud Offering OCI Database Services and Interconnect with Oracle to Meet Huge Customer Demand
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens assess why OCI and Google Cloud entering their well-anticipated partnership gives customers the choice they prioritize to combine OCI and Google Cloud technologies, which can help accelerate their application migrations and modernization as well as improve business outcomes.
Intel AI Everywhere Ready to Transform the AI Ecosystem
Daniel Newman & Ron Westfall

Intel AI Everywhere: Ready to Transform the AI Ecosystem

In our latest research brief, Intel AI Everywhere: Ready to Transform the AI Ecosystem, we analyze why Intel is perfectly suited to pace the AI Everywhere proposition. We look at why Intel is fundamentally committed to the core proposition of bringing AI everywhere, through key offerings such as Intel Xeon processors, Gaudi accelerators, and Intel Core Ultra Processors, which are aimed at ushering in the age of AI PC and securely distributing AI workloads in data center, cloud, and edge environments.
Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI Form GenAI Power Trio
Ron Westfall & Steven Dickens

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI Form GenAI Power Trio

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI Collaborate to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform to OCI to Ensure OpenAI Can Scale Fast-growing Massive LLM Training Demands
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens explore why the collaboration with OpenAI to extend the Microsoft Azure AI platform to OCI validates that Oracle Gen2 AI infrastructure, underscored by RDMA-fueled innovation, can support and scale the most demanding LLM/GenAI workloads with immediacy.
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