Category: Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

July 20, 2021

IBM Storage Adds Enhanced Data Protection to FlashSystem Showing a Focus on Security, Ransomware, and Storage

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of IBM Storage announcements today, which reflect the company’s addition of enhanced data protection to Flash System, showing a focus on security, ransomware, and...
July 20, 2021

Funding Trends in CX

July 20, 2021

Storage Performance for Cloud Native Applications

July 20, 2021

IBM Systems Has A Tough Quarter, But That Is Not The Whole Story

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 2021 results for IBM Systems. The headline results on the surface look troubling for Systems, however given the...
July 15, 2021

SUSE Announces First Earnings as a Public Company, Post Rancher Labs Acquisition

Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the first set of earnings announcements from SUSE as a public company. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and IPO’ing the...
July 13, 2021

Zoho Advances BI and Analytics Platform With New Self-service Approach, Aiming to Radically Transform Data Integrity and Business Insights

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis on the new functionality announced today by Zoho. With a focus on radically improving the ease of manipulation of data and...
July 6, 2021

Merger and Acquisition Activity in the CX Market is Unabated through the COVID-19 Pandemic

June 29, 2021

The 5 New Antitrust Bills being Considered by Lawmakers – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Olivier Blanchard explore the 5 new antitrust bills recently proposed in congress, the state of antitrust, and...
June 29, 2021

The Impact of BOPIS, BOSFS, and BORIS on Retail CX, and the Tech Needed to Effectively Deploy These Services

June 25, 2021

IBM Launches Enhanced Fan Experience for Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on IBM’s continued support of the Wimbledon tennis championships. IBM is delivering AI-driven enriched fan experiences delivered through IBM Watson and hybrid cloud services...
June 16, 2021

Oracle Growth Accelerates in Fiscal Q4 on Strengthening Cloud Performance

Oracle saw its revenues grow 8% and its EPS saw a big jump a the company continues to gain momentum in its cloud and applications business....
June 1, 2021

Cloudera Will Go Private in a Private Equity Deal Valued at $5.3 Billion

Cloudera, in a $5.3 billion deal is going private, which should provide the company runway to focus on innovation and shifting cloud demand....

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