Category: Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

December 2, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

AWS reInvent 2020: 5 Big Announcements From Andy Jassy’s Keynote

AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivered an onslaught of news at his annual reInvent keynote. Here is analysis of five items that caught our attention

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Semiconductors and Components

December 1, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

HPE Returns to Year-Over-Year Growth With Strong Q4

HPE returned to year-over-year growth in its fiscal fourth quarter lead by improvement in its HPC and Edge business units.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 17, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

Dell, Switch and FedEx Build Edge Data Centers

Dell, Switch and FedEx collaborate to build technology hubs that support multicloud and hybrid environments for edge processing. These hubs will operate on Switch’s edge modular data centers that are deployed on FedEx real estate, with Dell providing server hardware and managed services. FedEx will also be the first consumer of these services.

Cloud, Edge Networking, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, IoT, Workplace Collaboration

November 13, 2020

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Guavus-IQ’s Availability on AWS Cloud is a Definitive Smart Move by Guavus

Guavus strengthen its overall Guavus-IQ portfolio with the Guavus-IQ on AWS launch. Guavus quickly counters the AWS and hyperscale partnerships that its key rivals have recently implemented and gains near-term differentiation with its specific portfolio emphasis on explainable AI (XAI) capabilities countering the broader AI marketing and portfolio claims of competitors. Guavus-IQ on AWS fulfills burgeoning CSP demands to lower their CapEx and OpEx, by enabling faster resolution of service and network issues through cloud-based anomaly detection, fault correlation, and root cause analysis, as they look to turnaround their shrinking profit-per-bit business models.

5G, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 13, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Cisco Outperforms in Q1, Predicting an Even Better Q2

Cisco saw its stock pop after hours when it beat analyst expectations and shared guidance that revenue is returning toward YoY Growth.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Unified Communications

November 11, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

New HPE GreenLake VDI Caters To Remote Worker User Types

A New HPE GreenLake VDI cloud services provide solutions optimized for each type of remote worker and leverages technology partnerships with Citrix, Nutanix, NVIDIA, and VMware.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 10, 2020

Sarah Wallace

Research Note

AWS Gets Greenlight for Huge Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia

AWS gets the greenlight for another data center campus in Northern Virginia to accommodate the booming cloud business.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 5, 2020

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

Exploring the New Frontier: Container-as-a-Service with HPE and Splunk – The Six Five Insiders Edition

In this new episode of the Six Five - Insiders’ Edition, co-hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead talk with HPE’s Keith White and Splunk’s Skip Bacon about the future of containerization, the HPE and Splunk partnership, and how container-as-a-service will change the storage game for large enterprises.

Cloud, ERP, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 4, 2020

Ron Westfall

Research Note

Oracle Digital Experience for Communications Prepares CSPs to Lead Radical Transformation of Customer Experience

With the Oracle Digital Experience for Communications debut, Oracle is addressing the CSP top priority of driving and winning the CX battle across the digital ecosystem. This includes ensuring CSPs engage their customers through their preferred interaction channels, personalizing digital experiences and injecting agility into B2B2X engagements. The new solution is fully differentiated by the blending of OCI capabilities and Oracle telco software knowledge. Oracle meets CSP integration demands in hybrid cloud environments through support of TM Forum’s ODA and Open API initiatives, potentially accelerating CSP adoption and spurring CX innovation and digital ecosystem influence.

5G, Cloud, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

November 2, 2020

Daniel Newman

Research Note

IBM and AT&T Roll Out 5G Partnership Built on OpenShift

Last week, IBM and AT&T announced a partnership to deliver enterprises greater flexibility to manage and deliver apps using hybrid cloud.

Cloud, Edge Networking, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, IoT

November 2, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Futurum Tech Webcast

The Cloudification of the Contact Center — The Smart Path Forward – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the cloudification of the contact center and why it’s the smart path forward with Jeff Nicholson (Pega), Brandon Knight (Telarus), and Jon Gilman (Clear Software). If you’re involved with — or thinking about — migrating on-prem contact center ops to the cloud in your organization, this will be one show you won’t want to miss.