Category: Cloud

Steve Vonder Haar, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, covers news of the Pivotal Group’s acquisition of the webcasting unit of PGi, with plans to operate under the GlobalMeet brand, marking the end of an almost-decade long effort by PGi – a one-time giant in the world of audio conferencing services – to drive revenue growth by offering corporate webcasting services and technologies.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from AWS around its announcement of EC2 instances focused on generative Ai workloads. As AI moves toward mainstream adoption enterprises are looking to deploy generative AI workloads on the public cloud. With this trend emerging, AWS has responded with GA of Inf2 instances that are perfectly suited to generative AI deployments.
The Futurum Group’s VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from OpenText around its plans to further invest in the European market, specifically in the IT Operations tooling space. As the geopolitical landscape further fractures, customers are looking for enhanced data sovereignty and local deployments of their SaaS solutions. OpenText is observing this trend and investing accordingly to position itself for future growth.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why Alibaba Cloud is mapping out the strategy required to harness generative AI to advance intelligent enterprise business outcomes and user experience capabilities, as well as keen on monitoring how Alibaba Cloud and China’s regulators address and advance the ethical dimensions of generative AI technology.
The Six Five team discusses IBM Z going Rack Mount.
The Six Five team discusses HPE Storage Day.
On this episode of the Six Five, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead discuss HPE, Google, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, IBM, OpenAI, Dell Tech and Intel.
Futurum principal analyst and chief evangelist Shelly Kramer covers the recent launch of SAP Datasphere and explores the benefits it brings to organizations, including enabling them to quickly deliver meaningful data with business context and logic intact with a business data fabric architecture that can utilize both SAP and non-SAP data.
Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from AWS around its plans to further invest in the Australian market. As the geopolitical landscape further fractures, Western aligned countries are looking for enhanced data sovereignty and local infrastructure. AWS is observing this trend and investing accordingly to position itself for future growth.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new HPE GreenLake for File Storage offering, fueled by VAST Data DASE architecture capabilities, can provide the intuitive cloud experience vital to simplifying file data management for enterprise IT. By streamlining deployment, easing file share creation, and unifying storage management through a single cloud console, HPE is poised to assure the self-service cloud experience can be accessible from anywhere, on any device, and unhampers enterprise IT workforces from time-consuming complex tasks and focus on delivering strategic business value.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the expanded HPE Alletra Storage portfolio gains an immediate competitive boost due to the backing of the HPE GreenLake platform, which brings the cloud to wherever customer application and data live. All the new HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery, and HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery capabilities as well as the new HPE GreenLake for File Storage offering are powered by HPE GreenLake’s access to over 70 cloud services, fulfilling the strategic storage requirements of its customers.
In our latest research brief, How Model9 Helps Mainframe Users Revitalize Data — done in partnership with Model9 — Futurum analysts Steven Dickens and Todd R. Weiss look at how today’s businesses can benefit from Model9’s cloud-native object storage and do more with their own data.

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