Category: Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

Check Point expands its Unified Cloud platform to support Alibaba Cloud elevating market awareness of its advanced security, visibility, and compliance capabilities of its cloud security portfolio, especially across multi-cloud environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Check Point’s integration of its CloudGuard solution with Alibaba Cloud strengthens its overall multi-cloud proposition and provides a marketing edge over rivals as well as how Alibaba Cloud benefits competitively from the Check Point relationship.
As organizations increasingly move to multi cloud models, leveraging Kubernetes, automation is becoming critical as operations teams look to keep pace with their agile enabled developer brethren. Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the latest release of Red Hat’s Ansible Advanced Cluster Management offering.
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides in depth analysis of the news coming out of MongoDB’s live event of the updates to the core general purpose database platform.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Intel’s Kristen Call and SAP’s Praful Karanth about the changes we are seeing in the retail industry and the technologies and strategies that can make a difference.
AT&T and Google Cloud expand their 5G and edge collaboration targeting enterprises with a flexible combination of AT&T’s on-premises Multi-access Edge Compute solution and AT&T Network Edge Capabilities augmented by Google Cloud’s extensive edge PoPs and core proficiencies including Kubernetes container orchestration, AI/ML, data analytics, and ISV collaboration expertise. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why the expanded alliance boosts AT&T’s overall competitive prospects, especially in relation to main rival Verizon, and how AT&T now has the 5G and edge compute proposition needed to innovate immersive experiences and win more enterprise business.
In this video vignette from a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Steven Dickens (a former IBMer) dive into the massive transformation that IBM is undergoing, with a brief look at the Whitehurst departure and some potential ramifications, as well as significant changes in the company’s marketing function under new CMO Carla Piñeyro Sublett, and the challenges there, along with the concurrent radical transformation of IBM’s IT team under CIO Kathryn Guarini. If you’re following IBM, this is one conversation you won’t want to miss.

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