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Shelly Kramer

Bipartisan Lawmakers Work Toward Disclosure Bill for Cybersecurity Breaches

As a result of recent cybersecurity breaches, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been announced. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Sen. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) are working on legislation that will require companies to notify the federal government in the event of a security breach. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the need for the bill, especially in light of the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange Server hacks, the extent of the damage from which will remain unknown for some time. This proposed legislation makes sense — hopefully, this time around it will make it into law.
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Intel Nabs Justin Long for New Campaign in Response to Apple’s John Hodgman Spots – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Shelly Kramer talk about the new Intel campaign featuring the ‘I’m a Mac’ Justin Long and how Intel’s riposte to Apple’s November campaign announcing its M1 processor does a great job showcasing the big differences in user experience between PCs and Macs. It was definitely a ‘Well played, Intel’ moment.
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Cybersecurity and the Role Hardware Plays in the Enterprise Security Journey – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, the topic is all about security, and specifically focused on the role hardware plays in the enterprise security journey. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Dell Technologies’ Rick Martinez and John Boyle for an insightful discussion centered on the four key insights we uncovered as a result of a recent research study, as well as a look at supply chain and how that’s been impacted in the last year, what executives can do to prepare their businesses for the current threat landscape, as well as looking to the future.
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How to Create More Meaningful Connections in a Remote World – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this episode of Future of Work Talk and the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Shameem Smillie, the Director of Global Contact Center Solutions at Mitel for a conversation around connection, personalized customer experiences, and what ‘meaningful connections’ mean in a digital world, what the future of work looks like in post-pandemic times — and some practical ways businesses can think about strengthening their communication skills.
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Cybersecurity, Confidential Computing, and What’s Ahead – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman tackle the thorny topic of cybersecurity and the fact that security breaches are frequent, inevitable, expensive, and risky. Security has been a foundational layer within IT since the beginning of time, but it’s clear that it’s not working. There are many factors that contribute to this, and there are some nascent technology solutions, like Confidential Computing, that we think are going to play an important role in the not too distant future. This is one of a series of conversations we’ll have on this topic, and we’ve got a soon-to-publish research paper on the topic of Confidential Computing that you won’t want to miss.
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Microsoft’s Move to Make Power Automate Desktop Free is a Major RPA Power Play

Microsoft’s move to make Power Automate Desktop free is a major power play, giving enterprise customers every reason to turn to a familiar partner for their RPA and intelligent automation needs. And that is probably making a whole lot of other vendors pretty nervous.
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DoD Partners with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Manufacture Secure Chips

In a recently announced strategic partnership, the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) will partner with GLOBALFOUNDRIES, one of the world’s leading specialty foundries, to provide a secure and reliable supply of semiconductor solutions that will be manufactured at Fab 8 in Malta, New York., the company’s most advanced manufacturing facility. The DoD’s partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES is both about reliability and security and occurring at a time when there is a global semiconductor shortage and whole industries are feeling the pressure. This move to provide the security needed by the Pentagon for its sensitive military and aerospace needs is part of a concerted effort to on-shore U.S. microelectronics capabilities.
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FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit Program Addresses Digital Divide with $50 Monthly Internet Subsidy — Sort Of

The FCC’s just announced Emergency Broadband Benefit program addresses the digital divide with a $50 monthly internet subsidy aimed at assisting low-income individuals gaining temporary internet access. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the program, the benefits, and the challenges ahead in this initiative to breach the digital divide in the US.
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The SolarWinds Hack, Clubhouse, Vulnerable Agora SDKs, Microsoft — Some Cybersecurity News You May Have Missed this Week – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by fellow analyst Fred McClimans for a conversation about some important cybersecurity news of the week that might’ve gotten lost as a result of horrible storms, power grid troubles, and lots of cold friends and colleagues. Their conversation focused on Clubhouse, the current darling of social apps Clubhouse and that fact that it’s powered by Agora, a Chinese-based company. Are their cybersecurity concerns there? Perhaps. We also explored the latest news from the US government on the SolarWinds hack, including startling information about its point of origin, and wrapped up with good news from Microsoft’s team around its investigation post SolarWinds hack. All in all, some great cybersecurity information and discussion that we think you’ll want to be a part of.
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Delta IBM Cloud Migration Partnership Takes Flight

The Delta IBM cloud partnership takes flight, with an announcement on Thursday of the acceleration of the airline’s digital transformation strategy and expansion of the partnership between the companies. IBM will transform Delta’s computing environment to run on a hybrid cloud architecture built on Red Hat OpenShift, provide services and training, and make further inroads in its big bet on cloud.
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An Interview with DataXStream’s Tim Yates on How Wholesalers are Benefitting From OMS+ – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this LinkedIn Live episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Tim Yates, the CEO of DataXstream for a conversation around how wholesalers are benefitting from DataXstream’s OMS+, an order management solution accessible through the SAP Store that helps wholesale distributors offer customers fast, reliable service. They covered some key benefits of OMS+, shared some customer/industry use case examples, and then closed the conversation with a preview of some new features coming to OMS+ including features related to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into the platform and the exciting benefits that will afford users.
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