Featured Person: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Nokia’s SaaS for Fixed Networks portfolio offer can accelerate fixed broadband deployments, especially fiber builds in the U.S. market, due to the significant expansion of U.S.-based federal, state, and local government funding options and enabling operators to take advantage of built-in SaaS benefits such as reducing upfront costs as well as streamlining operations and business processes.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman examine Micron’s financial results for the fourth quarter 2022 and full year of fiscal 2022 and why they believe that Micron is making the strategic moves critical to address rapidly weakening consumer demand and significant customer inventory adjustments across all its end markets until macroeconomic and semiconductor segment conditions improve.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine how Deutsche Telekom’s selection of Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core solution forwards DT’s Huawei replacement strategy in the mobile core, advances the 5G SA open architecture cause, bolsters 5G monetization use cases, and helps diversify Mavenir’s revenue streams.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Ericsson’s introduction of its Service Continuity AI app suite can provide the automation capabilities that CSPs require to improve overall network efficiency and resiliency across their operations and business processes especially for 5G standalone builds.
Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Lumen’s announcement of the hiring of Kate Johnson as CEO and President, taking over for Jeff Storey upon his retirement later this year and exploring why Johnson is a good fit for a role that requires deep expertise in digital transformation journeys.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Apstra Freeform offering is well positioned to unify experiences across vendors and automate essential data center workflows as well as ease multivendor data center automation and management builds.
5G monetization is gaining momentum as CSPs accelerate deployment of 5G standalone networks and emerging 5G services and use cases are ready to produce significant 5G monetization outcomes. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the top market shapers, selection criterion, use cases, and solution providers that are powering 5G monetization adoption and deployment throughout the mobile ecosystem.
Marvell Technologies debuted its LiquidSecurity 2 HSM adapted solution aimed at easing adoption of HSM technology in the cloud by offering breakthrough cryptographic acceleration, processing, and hardware-secure storage capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Amer Haider explore why Marvell’s new LS2 solution provides the key storage scalability, transaction processing performance advances, and TCO benefits to spur broader ecosystem adoption of HSM technology including HSM-as-a-service.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk Lumen’s new CEO hire, Mavenir and Deutsche Telekom’s new alliance, Starlink’s fight with the FCC, T-Mobile and Starlink partnering to bring enhanced connectivity to underserved areas, and T-Mobile’s deals for Apple fan girls and boys.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why Dell’s Project Alpine enables customers to use the APIs and management tools they already use, avoiding the expense and complexity of refactoring applications or reskilling workforces to drive their multi-cloud journey. As such, customers can combine their preferred public cloud services with Dell Technologies’ enterprise data services to attain uncompromised connectivity and consistent experience deploying Dell assets such as PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerFlex and ObjectScale on-prem to optimize their multi-cloud data services.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s new LiquidSecurity 2 solution is well-suited to support enterprises in their journey from on premise hardware security module (HSM) implementations to multi-cloud and private cloud environments due to key factors such as providing the latest FIPS-certified security boundary, critical for safeguarding cloud-scale applications across private and public clouds while also delivering cost, energy efficiency, and performance advances.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Oracle MySQL HeatWave on AWS solution provides the single database platform that fulfills topmost customer transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning demands and delivers definitive price performance advantages over rival solutions including Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Synapse.

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