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Steven Dickens

SUSE Announces Solid Q1 Earnings and Updates on Rancher Growth — Are They Becoming an Acquisition Target?

Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced Q1 earnings from SUSE. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and NeuVector, this set of numbers goes a long way toward demonstrating proficiencies on both execution and growth. What’s ahead? SUSE’s continued growth may well make the company show up on the radar of mega-cap IT titans as they look to add growth to the mix and freshen up their approach to hybrid cloud.
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Breaking Down President Biden’s Executive Order Focused on the Crypto Sector

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provide this take on the recent Biden Administration Executive Order focused on crypto. As the geopolitical landscape becomes ever more dynamic, the role of cryptocurrencies and DeFi has been thrust into the spotlight. In a much-anticipated move, it appears the U.S. President is keen to explore a digital dollar and better understand the role and impact of non-sovereign digital currencies such as Bitcoin.
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IBM Z Launches on IBM Cloud Simplifying Hybrid Cloud App Modernization

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements this week from IBM’s mainframe team. With the IBM Z team bringing to market the capability for customers to develop and test z/OS workloads to the IBM Cloud, Dickens examines the wider competitive landscape and the implications for IBM’s overall cloud growth.
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IBM Refreshes Storage Portfolio and Brings Enhanced Security Features to the FlashSystem Line

Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced updates to IBM’s Storage Portfolio. With IBM rightly focused on addressing the burgeoning requirements for enhanced security of data the company launches the Cyber Vault solution across the FlashSysetm portfolio and also delivers a raft of other updates to the portfolio.
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SUSE Announces Full Year ’21 Earnings and Q4 Results — Busy Year Ends in Solid Performance

Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recently announced Q4 and full year 2021 earnings from SUSE. With SUSE having had a busy year with the acquisitions of NeuVector and Rancher Labs, the company had a lot to digest. SUSE showed strong growth and positive signals across all areas of the business, including hyperscaler cloud adoption, and continued to demonstrate that the company’s strategic investments in marketing and sales execution are paying off.
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NRF 2022 in Review

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the innovations on display at this year's National Retail Federation Big Show, NRF 2022. As retail emerges after a tough couple of years, we review the big themes while highlighting the smaller players who are driving the frontlines of innovation in everything from spatial analytics, robotics, and RFID.
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Kyndryl Viewpointe Win to Accelerate IT Modernization With Move to Azure Showcases Partnership Strategy

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Kyndryl on its multi-year relationship refresh with Viewpointe. The announcement from recently NYSE listed Kyndryl highlights the company’s ecosystem and strategic partnership focus evidenced by a shift to the Microsoft Azure stack.
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IBM Launches IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center in its Continued Focus on Mainframe Modernization

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM focused on the mainframe platform. With customers increasingly facing tough choices as they look to either modernize or re-platform mainframe applications, IBM is looking to better inform key decision makers with a curated portal to provide relevant information to the C-Suite, architects and developers.
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Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation Platform to Microsoft Azure

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Red Hat around the availability of Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure. As the pressures grow on IT teams to manage more with less increasingly automation of repetitive tasks is a go to options. The Ansible platform is proving a vital tool in the ability for IT teams to keep up and the release of this functionality on Microsoft’s Azure platform increased deployment options for customers.
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Square Becomes Block – What is Next for Jack Dorsey?

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements from Square on its corporate rebranding — morphing from Square to Block — Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and where he sees Block focused in the months ahead.
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AWS Announces Mainframe Modernization Acceleration Program in Partnership with Micro Focus

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of AWS re:Invent related to the mainframe platform. AWS continues to sharpen its focus on the venerable mainframe platform with a more comprehensive partnership with Micro Focus.
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IBM Z OMEGAMON Designed to Further Connect Mainframe to the Hybrid Cloud

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest release of the venerable OMEGAMON suite from IBM. As clients look increasingly to move to an AIOps driven mindset, IBM is riding this wave with the IBM Z OMEGAMON suite and connecting the data outputs to industry standard offerings such as Elastic and Grafana.
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