Category: Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 30, 2021

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

Telum What You’re Doing, IBM – The Six Five Webcast

On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including latest earnings report from HP, Dell, Salesforce and Marvell, IBM launches the new Telum Processor and more topics you won't want to miss.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Semiconductors

August 27, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Boingo Wireless and AWS Expand Partnership Benefitting Major Airports and Stadiums

Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by Boingo Wireless and AWS to expand their partnership bringing managed network services and the power of cloud computing together for enterprise venue customers.

CIO Insights, Enterprise Applications, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 26, 2021

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

Splunk Q2 Highlights Progress in its Cloud Transformation

Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provide their take on Splunk’s Q2 earnings announcement. The company is shuffling the executive deck, making strategic investments to bolster its security portfolio and also transition to a recurring revenue based on workload pricing, rather than data ingestion and seems to be executing on all fronts given the strong numbers for Q2.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 25, 2021

Daniel Newman

Video Research Note

Intel Architecture Day: All Things Datacenter

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 25, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp Enterprise Zero Trust Enhancements Are Designed to Boost Customer Trust

Google Cloud introduced three new BeyondCorp Enterprise features designed to fortify customer zero-trust capabilities including providing their users with simple and secure access to key applications. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new features align with meeting growing ecosystem demand for zero-trust, can help drive SASE adoption, and strengthens Google Cloud’s competitive hand against rivals such as HPE GreenLake and Azure as well as especially AWS.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 23, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

AWS Advances Amazon EC2 with new Xeon-powered Amazon EC2 M6i Instances

AWS announced the availability of new general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances that offer up to 15% improvement in price/performance in comparison to fifth-generation instances. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why expanding the sixth-generation offerings to include x86 instances strengthens the overall Gravitron2 processor proposition, bolsters AWS’ supply chain stability, and advances Amazon’s overall sustainability & ESG goals as well as boost the competitive edge AWS has over Azure and Google Cloud in the custom silicon realm.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 23, 2021

Daniel Newman

Analyst Insight

Talent Shortages Are Magnifying The Need For Improving Employee Experience

What do you do when you run out of talent? There's a problem now being felt especially in the tech industry, where a lack of skilled IT workers — especially in cloud field — could cause digital transformation to stall in its tracks.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 20, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

What is Really Going on With CentOS Stream?

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on what is really going on with CentOS Stream. After a rocky last eight months and lots of loud voices in the community calling for Red Hat’s head, I got the chance to get an inside track on what is really going on with CentOS Stream, and I was impressed with the hard work of community governance that is going on.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 20, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Microsoft Boosts Competitive Health of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare with Azure Healthcare APIs

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expanded its health data services to enable the exchange of multiple data types in the FHIR format, branding the new capability Azure Healthcare APIs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Azure Healthcare APIs meets growing demand across the healthcare and life sciences fields for unified data that generates a consummate patient record with real-time data, collected and persisted in a consistent way according to common health data standards across multiple types of health data. Moreover, the new offering enables Microsoft to preserve its time to market advantages over key rivals AWS and Google Cloud in delivering FHIR support capabilities and Healthcare API innovations.

CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

August 19, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

HPE GreenLake Organizational and Leadership Changes Announced This Week Clearly Raises the HPE GreenLake Tide

HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri unveiled new HPE GreenLake organizational and leadership changes all targeted at making further inroads into the hybrid cloud space. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new HPE GreenLake changes, such as the formation of the HPE GreenLake Platform Development team, the HPE GreenLake Cloud Service Services group, SRE and Cloud Services Operations teams, all strengthen HPE’s hand in competing against hyperscalers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as well as enterprise-savvy cloud players IBM/RedHat, VMware, and Oracle.