Category: Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

Earlier this week, Microsoft published it’s Book of News at Microsoft Build. It’s an annual guide to upgrades and enhancements that were announced at the event. These spanned the entire Microsoft developer platform including Visual Studio, GitHub, Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, Windows, and Microsoft 365.
Oracle unveiled its first Arm-based compute offering OCI Ampere A1 Compute, aiming to guide the porting of open source projects to Arm technology for price-performance and efficiency gains. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why the Arm architecture is gaining a broader presence across data center server processor architectures, how OCI attains competitive differentiation through the new platform, and why OCI’s main rivals need to counter the move.
Apple's changes to its opt-in policy is shifting the landscape of tracking users and leveraging 3rd party data. This shift means CMOs have a big task in front of them to continue to deliver best of class customer experiences.
Amdocs acquires Sourced Group for its cloud migration platform and expertise, burnishing its overall cloud native portfolio. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how the acquisition boosts Amdocs’s cloud native products and cloud support proposition across the telecommunications, media, and financial services verticals as well as market presence in the Asia-Pacific, North America, and Oceania regions, especially in supporting multi-cloud migration strategies.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer delve into the expansion of the AWS and Ericsson alliance with AWS certifying Ericsson Telecom BSS for AWS. We discussed the industry-wide impact of the AWS announcement including the operational and business benefits CSPs gain from the cloud native Ericsson Telecom BSS portfolio and the topmost considerations CSPs need to understand in advancing their cloud journeys.
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall analyze the key takeaways from our recent survey and research report, ‘The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain” done in partnership with Ericsson. We discussed the strategic commitment of CSPs to a multi-cloud strategy, the competitive advantages that each of the major cloud providers offer, and which cloud design principles are CSPs identifying as the most important. Plus, we address the AWS announcement that extends its long-term partnership with Ericsson by certifying Ericsson’s Telecom BSS on AWS and why it is a high impact move across the telco industry.
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 the latest earnings from Poly, announcements from IBM Think 2021 and Lattice Semiconductor's Analyst Day, and more.
Juniper debuts its Security Cloud Director, the cloud-based portal developed to aid customers in migrating securely to a SASE architecture by protecting users, applications, and infrastructure amidst cloud journeys and organization-wide transformation. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Juniper Security Director Cloud solution and how it bolsters Juniper’s overall Connected Security strategy, especially in emerging SASE frameworks, as well as Juniper’s near-term competitive positioning.
In this vignette from the Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss Ireland’s Health System completely shutting down, falling victim to a ransomware attack.

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