Author: Steven Dickens

In our latest research brief, How Mainframe Customers Should Evaluate Potential Change Management Solutions — done in partnership with IBM and 21st Century — we explore what mainframe customers need to evaluate as they look for change management solutions for their mission-critical systems.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement of MongoDB 6.0. As customers look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, they need simplified data platforms and an overall improved developer experience. MongoDB is laser focused on delivering the developer data platform and these announcements build on this holistic vision.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements this week from Red Hat about the company’s collaboration with ABB on industrial edge computing offering.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens covers the announcements made at the Data & AI Summit 2022 this week in San Francisco, organized by Databricks. As organizations look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, many are turning to open source approaches such as Lakehouse and Spark, and Databricks appears to be well-positioned to see strong growth in the months ahead.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of HPE Discover about the deepening relationships with Red Hat and SUSE.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of the MongoDB World conference in New York this week. During the event MongoDB announced a raft of updates, including updates to Atlas, its core database offering, and launched a Developer Data Platform. It’s clear that MongoDB wants to compete in a crowded marketplace, but can it manage that?
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of the SUSECon Digital ’22, the annual global technical conference for SUSE customers and partners that has been going on this week, including the company announcements around SLES 15.4, a raft of updates to SUSE Rancher and Neuvector, security updates, partnerships, and more.
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on ServiceNow’s Knowledge 2022, the company’s customer-facing events. ServiceNow looks to drive aggressive growth and is betting on its newly upgraded Now Platform to not only help underpin the growth, but also transition into more service workflows.
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced updates to Rancher and NeuVector. At the recent KUBECON Europe event, SUSE took the opportunity to expand on its vision for container security and provide updates to its strategic container management platform Rancher.
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced partnership between Kyndryl and Red Hat. As hybrid cloud deployments start to happen at scale Global System Integrators are flocking to form relationships with providers such as Red Hat so they can be skilled in the latest technologies such Ansible Automation Platform.
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced partnership extensions between VMware, Wipro and Atos. As Kubernetes deployments start to happen at scale, Global System Integrators are flocking to form relationships with VMware so they can be skilled in the latest technologies.
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced earnings from Kyndryl. With Kyndryl having recently split from IBM, the company is still dealing with the transition, although early indicators that a focus on alliances and cloud fueled growth is starting to pay off for the company.

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