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Steven Dickens

Red Hat Continues Kubernetes Innovation Track Record with Red Hat Device Edge

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out Red Hat at KubeCon. As Red Hat looks to deliver solutions to address the challenges of Edge computing the competitive battle lines are being drawn with vendors such as SUSE and VMware.
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Ripple Powering the Next Evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies

In our latest research brief, Ripple Powering the Next Evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies, done in partnership with Ripple, explores the benefits and challenges around CBDCs and why this new technology could transform the world.
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AnsibleFest 2022: Ansible Comes Into Its Own, the Power of Open Source Reigns, the Edge is Automated, and Ops-As-Code Goes Mainstream

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of AnsibleFest 2022. As hybrid multi-cloud becomes the default operating model for many enterprises, the sheer complexity and scale of operations are a challenge. The solution for the complexity and scale is automation, and the Ansible Automation Platform from Red Hat has established itself as the market-leading way to handle the evolving requirements of DevOps teams.
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IFS Unleashed Event Recap: IFS Unleashes Growth Engine

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IFS at the company’s IFS Unleashed event. As IFS makes a pivot to IFS cloud and customer adoption ramps up, the company is working to establish a broad ecosystem of implementation and integration partners. Will it pay off?
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Kyndryl and Microsoft Collaborate to Drive Mainframe Innovation

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Kyndryl and Microsoft around their collaboration in the cloud. As hybrid multi-cloud evolves and the mainframe becomes a more vital part of a hybrid cloud strategy, the need for low-code and no-code cloud resident applications becomes more paramount. Today’s announcement by Kyndryl and Microsoft reflects this shift.
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IBM Adds Red Hat Storage Capabilities to its IBM Storage Business Unit Portfolio

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out IBM and Red Hat about the transition of the Red Hat portfolio to its IBM Storage business unit. As storage evolves and becomes a more vital part of a hybrid cloud strategy, the need for open source becomes more paramount. This announcement by IBM reflects this shift — how will it play with IBM customers?
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Red Hat Announces Latest Version of OpenStack — Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 — at MWC Las Vegas

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of MWCLV22, where Red Hat announced the latest version of OpenStack, OpenStack Platform17. With many enterprises focused on Kubernetes and containers, Red Hat continues to demonstrate engineering prowess and reap the benefits of downstream convergence of OpenShift and OpenStack.
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LinuxONE Stripped Naked in the IBM Cloud

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM Cloud. With hybrid cloud becoming the prevailing deployment architecture for many enterprises, IBM is leaning into providing LinuxONE as-a-service on the IBM cloud.
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IBM Continues to Demonstrate Commitment to Sustainability at Open Mainframe Summit Event

Futurum’s Steven Dickens covers IBM’s continued demonstration of its commitment to sustainability, in evidence at the recent Open Mainframe Summit event where the company’s donation of a sustainability dashboard was announced.
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Open Mainframe Project Drives Open Innovation

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of the Open Mainframe Summit. As open source becomes the default option for developers looking to innovate at speed and at scale the mainframe needs to keep pace. The donation of a z15 system to the open-source community hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project takes community driven development to the next level.
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LinuxONE – The Penguins Are Back

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of Open Source Summit in Dublin where IBM launched a new high end Linux server, the LinuxONE Emperor 4. With enterprises struggling to deliver on ambitious ESG pledges, IBM has decided to make sustainability the focus for the launch of a new Linux server while still retaining a focus on TCO and security.
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VMware Explore 2022 Event Recap: New Name, New Solution Portfolio, New Alliances

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of the VMware Explore 2022 event. As customers look to innovate and simplify cloud operations, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, cloud chaos reigns. VMware Explore’s announcements, new solution portfolio, new alliances and partner ecosystems are focused on delivering a simplified hybrid cloud management experience.
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