Category: Data Management

Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), shares his thoughts on IBM’s recent announcement of launching a new Lakehouse with watsonx.data, named IBM watsonx.data, a new AI and Data platform for enterprises.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses the key takeaways from the Oracle Database Analyst event and examines why Oracle’s multi-cloud and developer breakthroughs strengthen the company’s competitive position in the unfolding multi-cloud era, especially as enterprise customers increase their demand for streamlined multi-cloud interconnectedness and developers takes advantage of Oracle Database 23c Free-Developer Release and JSON Relational Duality innovations.
Randy Kerns, senior strategist at The Futurum Group, covers news of Databricks’ acquisition of Okera and provides insights on how this will set Databricks apart from other lakehouse solutions.
Mitch Lewis, research analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), provides insights into Pure Storage’s latest announcement of adding new file services to its FlashArray products and how he believes that this is a positive update to the company’s existing product line.
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), shares her thoughts on Dell Technologies’ recent announcement on building a Zero Trust ecosystem and how this will affect the Zero Trust adoption.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from BMC Software and its plan to acquire Model9. As mainframe customers grapple with how to modernize their applications and leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud, how they manage data is becoming a key battleground. Model9 has emerged over the last couple of years as a key player in this space and the acquisition of Model9 by long-standing mainframe software vendor BMC validates the solution and the approach.
Dave Raffo, senior analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), provides insights into Zadara’s recent executive personnel change as competition increases, and explores what this means for the future of the company.
Mitch Lewis, research analyst at The Futurum Group, provides insights on how decentralized storage, an emerging technology, can become yet another tool available to IT organizations in the ongoing battle against ransomware.
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, shares her thoughts on the future of Kubernetes protection following announcements made from major vendors at KubeCon Europe 2023.
The Futurum Group principal analyst Shelly Kramer examines the Salesforce announcement of the company’s intention to integrate Einstein GPT and Data Cloud into Flow, the company’s workflow automation suite, and explores what that means for users in terms of more rapidly being able to realize the benefits of generative AI and better serve customers in the process.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why the Marvell and TSMC partnership to deliver Marvell’s new 3nm portfolio can broaden and catalyze data infrastructure ecosystem adoption of Marvell interconnect, SerDes, and parallel interface capabilities as computing system applications, such as cloud, AI, networking, 5G, automotive, and custom solutions, expand in scope, intricacy, and use case range.
On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Santiago Giraldo, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cloudera, and Carolyn Duby, Field CTO and Cybersecurity GTM Lead for Cloudera.

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