Steven Dickens, Chief Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, noted that last week's major outage in Microsoft's Central US region severely disrupted multiple Azure services, including Virtual Machines and Cosmos DB. The incident, compounded by the Crowdstrike debacle, highlights significant vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure and underscores the broad impact such outages can have on dependent services and industries.
The Futurum Group team assesses how the global impact of the recent CrowdStrike IT outage has underscored the critical dependency of various sectors on cybersecurity services, and how this incident highlights the vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure and emphasizes the necessity for robust cybersecurity measures and resilient deployment processes to prevent widespread disruptions in the future.
An Overview of Significant Advancements and Announcements in the AI Software and Services Market in June 2024
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, covers the highlights in the enterprise AI market in June 2024, featuring key players such as Apple, OpenAI, Stability, Google Deepmind, Meta, and McDonald’s.
An Overview of Significant Advancements and Announcements in the Enterprise Applications Market in June 2024.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, covers the highlights in the enterprise application market in June 2024, featuring players such as Salesforce, Pegasystems, SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle Netsuite, and more.
Steven Dickens and Shira Rubinoff from The Futurum Group analyze the recent CrowdStrike IT outage, highlighting its extensive global impact on various industries and the critical lessons for businesses. They emphasize the importance of robust IT systems and proactive cybersecurity measures to mitigate future disruptions.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director with The Futurum Group, shares his insights on why HP’s new 14” OmniBook Ultra next-gen AI PC hints to HP’s AI PC market differentiation strategy, and to how silicon diversity in the AI PC/Copilot+ PC ecosystem is already creating specific performance niches and unique value proposition tracks for top PC semiconductor vendors namely Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel.
In this episode of Enterprising Insights, The Futurum Group Research Director Keith Kirkpatrick discusses two Market Insight Reports he authored at FuturumGroup.com, focusing on Text-to-Image Generation Technology for the Enterprise, and on Customer Data Platforms.
GPT-4 vs Claude and the Implications for AI Applications
Paul Nashawaty discusses Anthropic's launch of the Claude Android app, bringing its AI capabilities to Android users and also, a comparative analysis of long context recall between GPT-4 and Claude.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss AWS Summit New York 2024, Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2024, Apple & Microsoft leave OpenAI board, AMD acquires Silo, Sequoia/A16Z/Goldman rain on the AI parade, and Oracle & Palantir Foundry & AI Platform.
