Author: Steven Dickens

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent series C raise by fast-growing start-up Teleport. As the security space becomes more fractured due to the adoption of hybrid multi-cloud deployments access management becomes key. Teleport has a secret-less approach to identity access management, which is both novel and intriguing.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcements from vFunction. As customers look to migrate legacy applications to the cloud re-platforming is not ideal. Customers need to go further and re-factor applications if they want to leverage all the benefits of the cloud. However, technical debt holds them back from getting started. The new tools launched by vFunction look to help people assess their technical debt.
In our latest report, Re-imagining Financial Systems — created in collaboration with Broadcom — we explore the shifting landscape for financial institutions and the benefits of modernizing the mainframe.
In A Deep Dive on Edge+Topologies — created in collaboration with Red Hat — we examine topology for edge deployments and how Red Hat’s approach to edge computing can help organizations achieve their goals.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcements from Red Hat. As the Kubernetes landscape matures and the focus pivots from DevOps to a more developer focused approach, Red Hat’s unveiling of Red Hat Application Foundations will provide much needed enhanced cloud capabilities, and should substantially facilitate streamlined app development for developers.
In our latest infosheet, Evolution of Workload Automation — done in partnership with IBM and 21st Century — we evaluate the overall batch scheduling and programming market offering insight into IBM’s JCL Expert and why we, at Futurum Research, believe it is well-suited to meet the client need in the ever-changing DevOps landscape.
Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the financial history of the mainframe launch cycle. IBM is a different company from when the last mainframe was launched, and the new system that will be announced earlier this month has the opportunity to further drive the company’s growth trajectory in the coming quarters.
If you’re interested in learning how to improve your edge deployments with security, download your copy of A Deep Dive on Edge+Security today.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on what Elon Musk’s move to take Twitter private could mean to the underlying technology stack of social media platforms.
If you’re interested in learning how to improve your edge deployments with scalability, download your copy of A Deep Dive on Edge+Scalability today.
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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens takes a deep dive into IBM’s new z16 mainframe, exploring the features in the newest zSystems ecosystem based on IBM announcements and sharing insights on what this means for IBM’s mainframe customers.

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