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Ron Westfall

Microsoft Boosts Competitive Health of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare with Azure Healthcare APIs

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expanded its health data services to enable the exchange of multiple data types in the FHIR format, branding the new capability Azure Healthcare APIs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Azure Healthcare APIs meets growing demand across the healthcare and life sciences fields for unified data that generates a consummate patient record with real-time data, collected and persisted in a consistent way according to common health data standards across multiple types of health data. Moreover, the new offering enables Microsoft to preserve its time to market advantages over key rivals AWS and Google Cloud in delivering FHIR support capabilities and Healthcare API innovations.
Steven Dickens

With The Argus System, Microsoft Research and Collaborators Seek to Leverage Ethereum to Prevent Piracy

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.
Daniel Newman

Microsoft Acquires Peer5 to Address Demand for Live Video Streaming

This week Microsoft acquired a small but strategic company, Peer 5, to address the growing demand for live video streaming in Teams.
Daniel Newman

Tech Outperforms This Quarter Led by AMD, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet

Tech names AMD, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all saw their results significantly outperform guidance and expectations this week.
Daniel Newman

Microsoft Sees Overall Revenue Growth Pass 20% in Q4

Microsoft delivered strong results in its fiscal Q4 with its best YoY growth in three years as Cloud and business app growth remains robust.
Shelly Kramer

Windows 365 and Cloud PC: Microsoft’s Cloud-Based Version of Windows OS

At its recent Inspire event, Microsoft announced Windows 365 and Cloud PC offering. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer walks through the benefits of the offering and highlights security as one of the most attractive features. For more of her insights, check out the article.
Ron Westfall

Microsoft’s Expanded NEC Relationship Showcases Azure’s Global Appeal

Microsoft and NEC have established a new multi-year strategic alliance, that synthesizes Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s IT and network portfolio resources, including 5G assets, and both companies AI and IoT capabilities to power customer digital transformation missions across the public and private realms. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the expanded partnership enhances Microsoft Azure’s competitive prospects across the operator and enterprise realms, coming on the heels of winning AT&T’s 5G mobile business, and how both companies are better positioned to drive organization-wide digital transformation on a vertical-specific basis.
Steven Dickens

Nerdio Announces New Integrations with Microsoft Windows 365, Aimed at Making Remote Work Easier

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on developments coming out of VDI vendor Nerdio. As remote work accelerates the need for increased deployment of remote desktops, VDI has exploded. Nerdio is hyper focused on the issues around the deployment of VDI architectures either within MSP’s looking to service the SMB marketplace or large enterprises looking to manage their desktop fleet.
Daniel Newman

Microsoft Ignite(s) Deeper Integration Between Teams & Dynamics 365

Microsoft continues to push its ambitions to see Microsoft Teams as the centerpiece of work with new integrations into Dynamics 365
Daniel Newman

Week of July 5: Hot Takes on Microsoft, Amazon, and Google

This week's hot takes include the cancellation of JEDI, pulling $10 billion back from Microsoft. Andy Jassy takes over at Amazon and more.
Shelly Kramer

Microsoft JEDI Win Gets Cancelled, Amazon Gets Another Chance and Hello JWCC

Futurum’s Shelly Kramer shares insights on the cancellation of Microsoft’s DOD JEDI contract win, how Amazon’s tenacity paid off, and how changing times mean changing cloud needs for the government. Which is where the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud/multi-vendor Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, comes in.
Daniel Newman

Microsoft and Google End Their Six Year Truce as Regulation Heats Up

After a six year truce, Microsoft and Google end their cease fire. This happening amidst a ramp in global regulatory action.
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