Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

Oracle delivered a small YoY revenue growth result while also beating EPS expectations in its FY 21 Q2. Cloud and SaaS driving the results.
HPE accelerates mainstream adoption of HPC as a service through HPE GreenLake. This is a smart move by the vendor who is trying to bring HPC to the masses and make it more accessible to enterprises of all sizes.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, which we streamed on LinkedIn Live, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Don Schuerman, the CTO of Pega for a conversation about the culture of digital transformation based on a recently published Futurum Research report commissioned by Pega. The Futurum report: Four Insights on the Culture of Digital Transformation Today, explored what workers throughout the organization as a whole thought about their company’s digital transformation efforts, how different roles contribute to driving digital transformation initiatives, what barriers to success exist, and where organizations are finding success. This is one episode of the webcast you won’t want to miss.
In a continued evolution in the partnership between the two companies, Siemens selected AWS cloud to support its Smart Infrastructure business unit’s SAP workloads. The partnership will enable the Siemens’ business unit to save on costs and run ERP and supply chain management more efficiently for its customers.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform blurs the lines between smartphone shots and pro photography with its new Spectra 580 ISP, capable of processing up to 2.7 gigapixels per second. That is an astounding performance capability, especially for a chipset small enough to fit into a phone. This triple concurrency feature also allows a user to capture three 4K HDR videos at the same time.
The customer data platform (CDP) space continues to gain momentum as big tech and emerging software companies continue to pour resources into giving greater insights into customers through real-time data optimization. Here are some of the latest happenings and what they mean for CDP.
In this AT&T Business #BIZTALKS roundtable hosted by Futurum’s Shelly Kramer, she was joined by Kevin Jackson, CEO of GC Globalnet, Helen Yu, Founder & CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp, and Jason Inskeep, Director of the 5G Center of Excellence at AT&T for a conversation centered on smart investments business leaders can be, and should be, making for the intelligent future of business.
I enjoyed the Travel Track presented at this week’s AWS re:Invent, particularly the customer success story shared by Star Alliance. In this example, Star Alliance shared how the agility of AWS’s cloud service has helped the Alliance navigate the global pandemic in a time where the travel industry has been upended like never before.
The Ericsson Mobility Report is essential to understanding the current state of the worldwide 5G market, particularly since it pinpoints the most important developments in 5G backed with insightful and concise data. The report affirms that 5G is forging ahead across the planet despite the uncertainties of the C-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions affecting supply chains. The report plays a critical role in giving Ericsson a prominent role in the overall 5G market, by helping to capture mind share for its brand as well as informing the key decision making across the entirety of the 5G ecosystem needed to power 5G deployments. The key takeaways, including the validation of the FWA business case, Critical IoT’s rising prominence, rapid expansion of 5G subscriber counts, and 5G SA’s progress, to name a few, all provide solid evidence that 5G is ready to play a prominent role in not only the evolution of mobile networks but also society as a whole.
Qualcomm opens the week at its Snapdragon Summit with a focus on premium mobile experiences, 5G, and the dawn of an entirely new era for mobile in 2021. Many of the technologies showcased today will naturally trickle down vertically to other Snapdragon tiers, as well as outward to adjacent growth segments for the chipmaker, like Always-On, Always-Connected laptops, XR devices, Edge/Cloud AI products, and 5G Fixed Wireless solutions, among others.
AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivered an onslaught of news at his annual reInvent keynote. Here is analysis of five items that caught our attention

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