Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

The Six Five team discusses U.S. China Chip Controls and NVIDIA.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss China Chip Controls, Qualcomm, Micron, IBM, Oracle, NVIDIA, and Snowflake.
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group covers recently released research from IFS showing current telco challenges and some of the technologies that communication service providers plan on adopting to solve them.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest from BMC. BMC AMI Cloud is a portfolio that addresses the challenges of managing mainframe data in the hybrid cloud era. It offers benefits such as scalability, cost effectiveness, simplified management, and enhanced accessibility. By leveraging a hybrid cloud strategy, organizations can overcome the limitations of on-premises infrastructure and ensure data resilience. BMC's AMI Cloud Vault protects mainframe data from cyber threats, while AMI Cloud Analytics enables the utilization of mainframe data by cloud-based applications, improving decision-making and reducing costs. These solutions revolutionize mainframe data management, providing flexibility, scalability, and security.
Futurum Group Research Director, Ron Westfall and Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond examine Qualcomm’s 212S and 9205S modems, which are designed to help manufacturers build products that need excellent satellite and cellular connectivity in rural environments.
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers the launch of Verint’s Enterprise Experience Management and covers the aggressive roadmap for future capabilities.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses the ways in which Exadata X10M redefines what a cloud database platform should truly deliver, including why running Oracle Database on any other platform than Exadata X10M is basically equivalent to running the software in degraded mode on un-optimized, subpar infrastructure. Now, organizations can run Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M, which brings levels of ML and AI-powered automation and innovation that simply are not available from other cloud database providers.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers an undesirable travel interaction, and discusses the best practices that were employed by the company after negative feedback was provided to the company via a post-visit survey.
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest M&A and funding stories in the CX space. In this edition, he writes about the intended acquisition by WebMD Health Services of Limeade, and by Intouch Insight of a North American CX measurement company. Also in this edition is news of EX provider GSoft receiving a significant infusion of new capital from CDPQ.
Krista Macomber, The Futurum Group Senior Analyst, covers AWS re:Inforce, the annual security conference hosted by AWS. re:Inforce focused on the shared responsibility model and the importance of security in cloud computing. The conference highlighted AWS' efforts to secure its infrastructure and assist customers in using the cloud securely. AWS emphasized its commitment to security with developments like the AWS Nitro System and Firecracker, as well as tools such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Detective, and AWS Security Hub, which enhance security and compliance visibility. The conference aimed to address security challenges and reinforce the shared responsibility between AWS and its customers.
In our latest Report, BMC AMI Cloud: Empowering Mainframe Data Management in the Hybrid Cloud Era, done in partnership with BMC, we detail the challenges of both traditional and hybrid storage solutions, and how enterprises can efficiently manage storage operations and drive operational success.

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