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Ron Westfall

Oracle MySQL HeatWave: Teaching the Competition a Lesson in ML

Oracle debuts MySQL HeatWave ML delivering support of extensive machine learning based automation which enables the entire system to become more intelligent over time, locking in accrued lifecycle value for all customers as well as new ML explanations in HeatWave that deliver differentiation across usability and interpretability, quality, as well as performance and scalability criteria. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why new MySQL HeatWave ML is well-positioned to meet the most demanding database applications and expectations of enterprise users. From our perspective, the new innovations Oracle has built into MySQL HeatWave ML, enables the solution to stand out with a compelling feature set, AutoML scalability, real-time elasticity, date per node, portfolio-wide enhancement, and price/performance differentiation against the gauntlet of competition.
Ron Westfall

Cisco and Verizon C-V2X Test Boosts Autonomous Driving Use Case

Cisco and Verizon collaboration on PoC test that could help streamline autonomous driving applications by virtualizing roadside infrastructure by eliminating expensive Roadside Units to boost C-V2X signals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why the Cisco Verizon PoC can boost ecosystem support for C-V2X technology and accelerate deployment of autonomous driving use cases such as robotaxis and last-mile delivery bots.
Ron Westfall

EC 2022: Mavenir Communicates New Business Communications Portfolio Capabilities

Mavenir unveils a SaaS portfolio of business communications for CSPs, channels and systems integrators aimed at meeting the customer engagement, business messaging, CPaaS, UCaaS, and CCaaS needs of all businesses regardless of size. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Business Communications Portfolio expands Mavenir’s addressable market across the business communications realm and enhances its overall 5G proposition.
Ron Westfall

NVIDIA GTC 2022: NVIDIA and Pluribus Networks Seek to Unify and Secure Cloud Networks by Extending SDN Fabric Automation to DPUs

NVIDIA and Pluribus Networks showcase their collaboration at GTC 2022 to advancing unified and secure cloud networks through the extension of SDN fabric automation to DPUs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the NVIDIA Pluribus collaboration can power uniform networking operating environments with automation, network virtualization, and resource-pooling for streamlined infrastructure utilization and security to all workloads and devices across cloud networking environments.
Ron Westfall

HPE Dazzles with Host of New HPE GreenLake Capabilities and Partnerships

HPE GreenLake unveiled greater edge to cloud platform capabilities through unified experience, new cloud services, and expanded partner ecosystem collaboration. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE GreenLake’s addition of 12 new cloud services including NaaS, data services, HPC functions, and compute operations management along with a simplified experience that provides one view of all services edge to cloud strengthen HPE GreenLake’s overall competitiveness.
Ron Westfall

OFC 2022: Marvell Debuts CPO Platform to Spur Open Switch and Optics Integration

Marvell debuts its CPO technology platform aimed at enabling cloud data centers to meet rapidly expanding bandwidth demands driven by applications such as AI/ML engines and HPC clusters with improved energy efficiency benefits. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Marvell’s CPO technology platform is poised to take advantage of broader ecosystem support for standards-based switch and optics integration, diversifies standardized silicon choice, and can help power adoption across cloud data center environments.
Ron Westfall

Arista Networks: Powering Swifter 400G Adoption Across Cloud and Enterprise Environments – New Futurum Research Report

Arista Networks is strategically focused on developing a portfolio that delivers optimized cloud performance, modular system innovation, telemetry/instrumentation advances, unique power reduction capabilities, and traffic management agility as justifying top priority consideration of the Arista portfolio in the selection of 400G solutions. Futurum Research explores why we believe the Arista products offer the optimal balance of cloud performance, cost saving, power efficiencies, single software image flexibility, and telemetry/instrumentation features throughout 400G data center, cloud, and enterprise environments.
Ron Westfall

Pluribus Networks Unified Cloud Networking Envisions Unity Throughout Cloud Networking

Pluribus Networks debuts the Pluribus Unified Cloud Networking vision, featuring the Pluribus Unified Cloud Fabric aimed at providing an architecture which powers a unified networking model across distributed clouds, switches, and server-based DPUs with zero-trust distributed security, built-in automation, and pervasive visibility. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Pluribus Unified Cloud Networking directly addresses the challenges of today’s complex, fragmented cloud networks and provide the capabilities and differentiation needed to power swift adoption of unified cloud networking architectures.
Daniel Newman

Arista Networks: Powering Swifter 400G Adoption Across Cloud and Enterprise Environments

In this research brief, Arista Networks: Powering Swifter 400G Adoption Across Cloud and Enterprise Environments — done in partnership with Arista — we explore the capabilities of Arista Networks and why we feel Arista’s platforms are designed to deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics, and security that will fulfill the unique demands of 400G customers.
Ron Westfall

OFC 2022: Marvell Adds Unique Touch to New Cloud-Optimized 400G/800G PAM4 DSPs

Marvell enters the data center interconnects market segment to capitalize on expanding AI accelerator and growing networking bandwidth demands across data center environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s Alaska A PAM4 DSP family for AECs is meeting an urgent market demand for serial 100G short-reach interconnect solutions and broadens its ability to meet a diverse range of technology demands for customers.
Ron Westfall

MWC 2022: Nokia Is Liquid Cool with Advancing AirScale Base Station Sustainability

Nokia unveils it Liquid Cooling baseband solution that is now available across the latest Nokia AirScale product roster. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves in how the new solution underscores Nokia’s commitment to advancing its own sustainability and clean energy goals and aligns with the net-zero objectives of key mobile operators as well as gaining a marketing boost from AT&T’s Philadelphia pilot.
Ron Westfall

MWC 2022: Rakuten Symphony Conducts Robin.io Acquisition and New Alliance Moves

Rakuten Symphony acquires Robin.io and makes new alliance moves with Qualcomm, AT&T, Cisco, and Nokia to raise its profile at MWC 2022. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how the moves bolster Rakuten Symphony’s influence across the mobile ecosystem and positions the company to advance the buildout of mobile networks underpinned by the principles of open interfaces, virtualization, and interworking.
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