Author: Steven Dickens

In this episode of Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with Model9's Chief Strategy Officer, Eddy Ciliendo, during the SHARE Conference in Atlanta. Their conversation covered Model9's success in 2022 and how they reached 100% customer retention.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming from market-leading backup and recovery vendor, Veeam. The latest V12 release from Veeam heralds over 500 new features and looks to address the challenges of the dynamic requirements driven by the security-challenged landscape.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his top five predictions of what 2023 will have in store for the mainframe platform. As the macroeconomic climate's headwinds get stronger, many mainframe-centric enterprises will have to be more pragmatic toward ambitious mainframe modernization projects. Dickens looks ahead to the five technology trends he sees shaping the mainframe market in 2023 and beyond.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent fines issued by the UK Banking regulator on the high street bank, TSB. A botched migration in 2018 by UK bank TSB resulted in a significant impact on customers and ultimately in huge fines resulting from that impact. We look at the lessons that can be learned for organizations considering such huge migrations and modernization projects.
In our latest research brief, Infrastructure Innovation at the Speed of Cloud — done in partnership with SoftIron— Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens analyzes the challenges organizations face as they navigate their cloud deployments and what possible technology solutions could unlock the full value proposition of multi-cloud architecture.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest updates from innovative database vendor, Couchbase, as it looks to deepen the partnership with AWS and announces robust Q3 numbers that give an insight into the progress the company is making.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest updates from IBM as it looks to partner with market-leading cloud provider AWS. As enterprises look to embrace a hybrid multi-cloud strategy, new models for consuming software and modernizing mainframe platforms abound. This partnership, which was once incredibly unlikely, provides a vision for the future.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest updates from rapidly growing mainframe software vendor Model9 in collaboration with market-leading cloud provider AWS. As enterprises look to embrace a hybrid multi-cloud strategy, data migration and management become key. Model9 is looking to simplify and address the concerns of enterprises focused on mainframe data.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest updates to Red Hat’s enterprise Linux versions. As Linux continues its aggressive adoption IT operations teams are dealing with issues around security and the need to automate. The latest releases from Red Hat delivers on both fronts.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out VMware Explore in Barcelona. As customers look to deploy a hybrid cloud at scale, complexity abounds, HPE and VMWare are looking to deliver combined solutions to address the challenges facing their enterprise customers as they look to address the complexity that comes about in deploying hybrid cloud architecture.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from Google Cloud focused on mainframe modernization, which will rely on partnerships with the likes of Santander and Micro Focus. As enterprises look to address the challenges of digitally transforming systems of record and consider migration to the cloud, it’s not a simple process. Dickens covers some key things organizations need to consider when evaluating this next step in their digital transformation journeys.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of BMC Exchange 2022. As BMC looks to deliver solutions to address the challenges facing its enterprise customers, the company is well placed with robust offerings in service management, automation, and mainframe. Moving forward, the company just needs to further define its vision, and then be strategically vocal in how it articulates this vision to the C-Suite.

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