Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

Zoom significantly outperformed the market in its fiscal Q4 beating estimates on the top and bottom line heading into the new year.
After going public just 3 months ago, C3.ai is reporting its fiscal third quarter where it grew by 19% top line on growing demand for AI.
The FCC’s just announced Emergency Broadband Benefit program addresses the digital divide with a $50 monthly internet subsidy aimed at assisting low-income individuals gaining temporary internet access. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the program, the benefits, and the challenges ahead in this initiative to breach the digital divide in the US.
HPE is in a distinct position to upset the competitive balance in the open 5G space, including the Open RAN market segment. Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the specifics of the launch of HPE’s Open RAN Solution Stack and the fact that he believes it poses a serious competitive challenge to Open RAN specialists, as well as sets the stage for HPE to duel long-term with the incumbent RAN and mobile infrastructure players in determining the destination of the overall Open 5G ecosystem. Factor in HPE assets such as the formation of HPE CTG, HPE GreenLake/Ezmeral, and HPE 5G Core Stack, HPE is now in a strong position to become a prime influencer across the entire 5G ecosystem.
Salesforce finished its year delivering 20% growth for the quarter and 24% for the year. Going forward it anticipates similar growth in FY 21
Alphabet released cloud results for the first time. What's clear is that it isn't a shoo-in for No. 3 in the cloud business.
Companies around the world are dealing with not just digital transformation and growing customer expectations, but the continued pandemic, decreased budgets, and changing customer priorities.
Juniper’s debut of Paragon Automation demonstrates the ability to execute on its Experience-First Networking strategy. The formation of Paragon Automation indicates Juniper has the blueprint to bolster its portfolio through a well-executed acquisition strategy that most recently includes 128T and Apstra. Futurum’s Ron Westfall views the formation of Juniper Paragon Automation as boding well for Juniper’s prospects in further assimilating its 128T assets to make deeper inroads into the AI-driven enterprise realm as well as successfully integrating its Apstra assets to alter the competitive dynamics within the automated cloud DC realm. Through Paragon Automation, Juniper is ready to win new mind share and move the needle across the automated WAN, AI-driven enterprise, and automated cloud DC market realms.
Microsoft finally optimizing its unified Office mobile app for Apple’s iPad devices isn’t just great news for iPad users – it’s also a clear signal from Microsoft that it intends to be more proactive about servicing segments of its ecosystem that may have, until now, been under-prioritized. Microsoft has also designed for specific segments of the Office User ecosystem, which is impressive. This ability to understand the user preferences and nuances involved in these unique segments of its ecosystem makes it clear that Microsoft has spent time and resources learning what these users’ needs are and that it has developed solutions so as to best to meet them.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by fellow analyst Fred McClimans for a conversation about some important cybersecurity news of the week that might’ve gotten lost as a result of horrible storms, power grid troubles, and lots of cold friends and colleagues. Their conversation focused on Clubhouse, the current darling of social apps Clubhouse and that fact that it’s powered by Agora, a Chinese-based company. Are their cybersecurity concerns there? Perhaps. We also explored the latest news from the US government on the SolarWinds hack, including startling information about its point of origin, and wrapped up with good news from Microsoft’s team around its investigation post SolarWinds hack. All in all, some great cybersecurity information and discussion that we think you’ll want to be a part of.

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