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Steven Dickens

Mastercard’s Acquisition of CipherTrace Will Bolster Crypto Capabilities

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the acquisition by Mastercard of CipherTrace. As bitcoin and cryptocurrencies move more and more into the mainstream the legacy financial services players need to bolster their capabilities to process these new digital assets. The acquisition of on-chain analytics company Ciphertrace by Mastercard is a lead indicator that this trend will only increase.
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Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador — and What This Means for FinTech

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the adoption by El Salvador of bitcoin as legal tender and what this means for Fintech and the global payments and money transfer providers. In a historic move, the country of El Salvador has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender.
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SUSE Rancher 2.6 Launches, First Release Since the Acquisition of Rancher Labs

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest release of SUSE’s kubernetes platform Rancher. Hot on the heels of a strong Q2 result as a newly IPO’d company, SUSE launches the first full release of the Kubernetes management stack from Rancher Labs, the company it acquired in 2020.
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Biden Administration Appeals to Big Tech to Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the focus by the Biden Administration over the last few months and the meetings on Capitol Hill last week to address recent security breaches. With Big Tech being summoned to engage with the administration against a backdrop of cyberattacks and ransomware incidents becoming more high profile and frequent, a coordinated government and private sector response is becoming increasingly called for by a bi-partisan coalition of lawmakers.
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What is Really Going on With CentOS Stream?

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on what is really going on with CentOS Stream. After a rocky last eight months and lots of loud voices in the community calling for Red Hat’s head, I got the chance to get an inside track on what is really going on with CentOS Stream, and I was impressed with the hard work of community governance that is going on.
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SUSE Earns Highest Level Accreditation for its SLES Linux Distribution, Doubles Down on Security

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis of recent announcements by Linux Operating System vendor SUSE concerning the security posture of its core SLES Linux distribution. In a move that is a clear nod toward doubling down on security, SUSE has announced that SLES SP 2 has achieved EAL 4+ certification for the Arm, Intel x86-64 and IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms.
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With The Argus System, Microsoft Research and Collaborators Seek to Leverage Ethereum to Prevent Piracy

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.
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What Does the Poly Network Hack Mean for DeFi

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the huge $600 million DeFi hack performed on the Poly Network. As the details of the hack become apparent Dickens takes a look at the details behind the hack and the wider implications for DeFi going forward.
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The Highs, Lows, and Unexpected Happenings Week of July 26 – Futurum Tech Webcast

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Square Announces Afterpay Acquisition, Potentially Disrupting Everyone

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on payments provider Square’s acquisition of Buy-Now-Pay-Later leader Afterpay. With the landscape for payments and fintech being disrupted daily, this acquisition will disrupt everyone from the credit card providers, to banks, as well as the wider digital payments landscape.
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Teradata’s Earnings, Pivot to as-a-Service, and the Road Ahead

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on Q2 earnings from industry veteran Teradata. In a congested market with formidable competitors, Teradata is making a pivot from on-premises deployments to a hybrid cloud model. Can they make the pivot quickly enough to remain a market leader?
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Red Hat Partners with Nutanix to Put Squeeze on VMware

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on news of the partnership between Red Hat and HCI provider Nutanix and what this might mean for the increasingly complex cloud landscape. This partnership looks to bring choice and deployment simplification to the company’s respective customers.
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