Category: Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

Cisco’s Acquisition Announcement Signals a Strategic Pivot From Hardware to Software
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens discusses Cisco's proposed acquisition $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, signaling a strategic pivot from hardware to software. The deal is set to add $4 billion in annual recurring revenue.
Oracle Successfully Migrates Loblaw’s Large SAP Database To OCI, Boosting Performance
The Futurum Group’s Guy Currier and Steven Dickens look at the latest announcements from Oracle CloudWorld, including Oracle's successful migration of Loblaw's complex SAP system to its OCI.
Oracle Is Expanding Its Cloud Services on Azure and AWS and Launching Oracle Alloy for Specialized Partner Offerings
The Futurum Group’s Guy Currier and Steven Dickens look at the latest announcements from Oracle CloudWorld, including Oracle Alloy, which enables global partners to create specialized cloud services, signifying a collaborative future.
Steven Dickens, Krista Macomber and Camberley Bates covered topics related to the tech industry, including Cisco’s blockbuster acquisition of Splunk, Kioxia’s merger with Western Digital, Lenovo’s Edge Server launch, BMCs NYC Tech Exchange event and much more.
Lenovo’s TruScale and ThinkEdge SE455 V3
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens and Camberley Bates discuss the launch of Lenovo’s enhanced edge capabilities. Lenovo expands its TruScale IaaS model to include edge AI servers, targeting efficient AI deployment at the network edge.
The Futurum Group’s Russ Fellows is joined by Dell’s Bill Leslie, Director, Technical Marketing for an inside look at the performance testing we recently conducted on Dell’s VxRail hyper converged infrastructure (HCI), use cases, and more.
The Six Five Team discusses Oracle Cloud World 2023.
Services From AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform Are Among New Application and Data Workflow Orchestration Plug-Ins
Dave Raffo and Steven Dickens from The Futurum Group analyze the latest Control-M and Helix Control-M plugins from BMC, which focus on public cloud services and mainframe modernization.
New Apstra Enhancements Ensure Multivendor Flow Gains, Improved Data Collection, and Automated Provisioning With Terraform to Uplift Private Data Center Experience
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall delves into why Juniper’s new enhancements to Apstra, including multivendor flow and design assurance capabilities, can make private data center operations as easy as the cloud experience.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss Oracle Cloud World 2023, the Microsoft Surface & AI Event, Intel Innovation 2023, Cisco buying Splunk, HP’s 17-Inch foldable PC and Apple’s failure to replace Qualcomm.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast-Interview Series, the Futurum Group’s Dave Raffo is joined by Greg White of Nutanix and Pritish Nilangi of AMD to talk technologies required to run modern applications in hybrid and multi clouds.
The Futurum Group's Steven Dickens and AWS's Ajay Nair delve into key topics pertaining to serverless architectures and the role that AWS has played in bringing serverless services to the market.

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