Category: Machine Learning

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why the formation of the Network Resilience Coalition can advance improvements in the updating of hardware and software on a more consistent and systematic basis on a global basis, including supporting organizations in attaining the end-to-end visibility key to bolstering network hardware and software resilience that can advance overall cybersecurity capabilities across their networks.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock examine the impact AI is having throughout the 5G ecosystem addressing Qualcomm’s view that the future of AI is hybrid with 5G Advanced making AI integral to 5G innovation, why Nokia’s new AI-infused AirScale portfolio boosts its O-RAN and Cloud RAN proposition and 5G Advanced readiness, and NVIDIA and Softbank’s collaboration on a platform for generative AI and 5G/6G apps based on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Nokia’s fiscal Q2 2023 as the company demonstrated its resilience by delivering fiscal Q2 2023 results including stable net sales in constant currency compared to 2022 amid macroeconomic uncertainties and customer inventory shifts. This includes the expectation that Nokia’s competitive prospects will benefit from more diversification in the enterprise and web scale spaces and the advancement of 5G SA network capabilities on a global basis.
Clint Wheelock, Chief Research Officer at The Futurum Group, takes a look at the recent announcement by Ridecell of the launch of Ridecell Fleet Transformation Cloud, which leverages digital technologies to optimize fleet management. The Ridecell Fleet Transformation Cloud platform offers fleet operators a comprehensive solution to manage and optimize their operations through advanced analytics, automation, and integration capabilities.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why AT&T and Cisco are meeting the new demands of the hybrid workforce era through their new joint offerings highlighted by mobile-first capabilities such as native integration of Webex Calling with the AT&T Mobile Network, SD-WAN with add-on 5G and broadband, and self-service digital purchasing experiences aimed specifically at SMBs including Cisco Meraki cloud-managed solutions.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why Cisco can be the trusted partner that enterprises rely on to advance their AI-powered security cloud journey. Cisco Secure Access in combination with new security offerings such as Cisco Firewall 4200 Series, Cisco Multicloud Defense, and Panoptica, fulfill the topmost security priorities of enterprises, assuring that the security and IT teams can streamline their overall security implementations by delivering swifter detection and response, single cloud-managed console, and common access experience capabilities.
Mitch Lewis, Research Analyst at The Futurum Group covers Weka’s latest 4.2 upgrade and how this upgrade can help with enhancing and optimizing the current Weka Data Platform capabilities.
The Six Five team discusses Slack GPT.
Marvell Technologies Nova extends the multi-source pluggable optics ecosystem and provides the advanced technology needed to alleviate data center network bottlenecks as the industry transitions to 51.2 Tbps networking architectures. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Nigel Alvares explore why Marvell’s new Nova offering, a 1.6T PAM4 DSP optimized for high-performance fabrics in AI/ML environments, delivers breakthroughs in optical connectivity by enabling the highest speed of data movement in cloud AI/ML and data center networks.
Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), shares his thoughts on IBM’s recent announcement of launching a new Lakehouse with watsonx.data, named IBM watsonx.data, a new AI and Data platform for enterprises.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from GitLab and Oracle Cloud around the company’s collaboration to accelerate AI and ML workloads. As DevOps matures and Platform Engineering becomes more widely adopted the likes of GitLab and Oracle are becoming natural bedfellows for enterprises looking to accelerate AI and ML development.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the new OCI features further strengthen Oracle’s expectation that the company’s cloud computing portfolio can attain an annual run rate of over $20 billion in fiscal year 2023, building on Oracle’s cloud businesses exceeding $16 billion in annualized revenue, reported during fiscal Q3 2023. The new cloud migration, workload security, and CDN features, in alignment with Oracle Database portfolio enhancements, can reinforce OCI’s key value proposition of right-sizing workloads according to specific customer requirements, moving the data industry away from predetermined inflexible workload parameters imposed by major providers.

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