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Google Cloud and Polygon Labs Join Forces to Accelerate Growth Across Polygon Protocols

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from last week at Consensus 2023, where Google Cloud and Polygon Labs announced a multi-year strategic alliance that will make it easier for developers to build, launch, and grow Web3 and dApps.
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BMC to Acquire Model9: What It Means for Mainframe Data Management

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from BMC Software and its plan to acquire Model9. As mainframe customers grapple with how to modernize their applications and leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud, how they manage data is becoming a key battleground. Model9 has emerged over the last couple of years as a key player in this space and the acquisition of Model9 by long-standing mainframe software vendor BMC validates the solution and the approach.
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GitLab and Oracle Partner to Accelerate AI/ML Development

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from GitLab and Oracle Cloud around the company’s collaboration to accelerate AI and ML workloads. As DevOps matures and Platform Engineering becomes more widely adopted the likes of GitLab and Oracle are becoming natural bedfellows for enterprises looking to accelerate AI and ML development.
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KubeCon 2023: SUSE Launches Rancher 2.7.2, Latest Version of Rancher

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from open-source innovator SUSE. The German-based open-source company took the opportunity of KubeCon being on its doorstep to launch the latest version of Rancher. As cloud-native deployments start to reach maturity, enterprises are looking for increased certification, security and simplicity in how they manage their K8S deployments.
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OpenText Uses its OpenText World EMEA Event to Break Cover

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from OpenText. The company is using its OpenText World EMEA to break cover and more widely introduce its solution stack to the market post the closure of its Micro Focus acquisition.
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VMware Doubles Down on Cross-Cloud Services

Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from VMware as the company endeavors to continue to innovate in cross-cloud services. As hybrid multi-cloud becomes the default deployment for many enterprises, VMware is well-positioned to build on its huge installed base and technology stack.
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IBM’s LinuxONE Goes Mainstream With the Launch of the LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 System

Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from IBM concerning the high-end Linux only server range, LinuxONE. As IBM launches the latest variant of the LinuxONE systems, namely the Rockhopper 4, the market is primed for adoption. With a combination of security, availability, scalability, performance, and sustainability IBM’s LinuxONE is primed for mainstream adoption.
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AWS Launches Inf2 Instances for High-Performance Generative AI

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from AWS around its announcement of EC2 instances focused on generative Ai workloads. As AI moves toward mainstream adoption enterprises are looking to deploy generative AI workloads on the public cloud. With this trend emerging, AWS has responded with GA of Inf2 instances that are perfectly suited to generative AI deployments.
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OpenText Further Invests in Europe to Fuel Continued Growth

The Futurum Group’s VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from OpenText around its plans to further invest in the European market, specifically in the IT Operations tooling space. As the geopolitical landscape further fractures, customers are looking for enhanced data sovereignty and local deployments of their SaaS solutions. OpenText is observing this trend and investing accordingly to position itself for future growth.
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The Value and Future of AIOps for Mainframe Environments

In this latest Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with BMC Software's Principal Product Manager, Paul Spicer and Ensono’s Expert Mainframe System Programmer, Paul Buchanan, about the client perspective of AIOps integration, and how skills play into its adoption.
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The State of AIOps in Mainframe Environments

In this latest Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with BMC Software's Principal Product Manager, Paul Spicer about BMC’s offerings and the state of AIOps in the mainframe environment.
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AWS Further Invests in the Australian Market

Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from AWS around its plans to further invest in the Australian market. As the geopolitical landscape further fractures, Western aligned countries are looking for enhanced data sovereignty and local infrastructure. AWS is observing this trend and investing accordingly to position itself for future growth.
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