Featured Person: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why NEC/Netcracker’s CGF solution using DigitalRoute CGF capabilities is critical to advancing NTT DOCOMO’s 5G monetization goals in key areas, such as streamlining billing processes, advancing BSS modernization, and assuring the swift monetization of new 5G services.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Cisco IoT Control Center provides the foundation for Cisco to capitalize on the fast-growing global IoT market, particularly across major verticals and capabilities such as 5G private networks, connected cars, smart meters, predictive maintenance, fleet management, home security, and payment solutions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Ericsson Private Networks is now better positioned to meet the distinct requirements of enterprises seeking a software-defined solution with simpler management that can ease the adoption of CBRS spectrum in the build out and expansion of their private networks.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall explore how Cloudera is producing value in the data ecosystem with their innovative open data lakehouse approach, and why organizations that need to advance their data architectures should consider this solution.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why CSP sustainability initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help accelerate adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and beyond, and how Mavenir is well-positioned to take advantage of CSP sustainability priorities to advance ecosystem-wide Open RAN adoption.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Intel’s new 4th Gen Xeon CPU cores and Max Series CPUs/GPUs in combination with an agile, vast array of built-in accelerators can deliver performance breakthroughs, efficiency advances, and new total cost of operation benefits throughout swiftly expanding and evolving network and edge environments. The new solutions underscore Intel’s commitment to a workload-first portfolio development strategy which bodes well for the company’s ongoing organization-wide turnaround mission.
In this latest research brief, Dell CloudIQ: Using AIOps to Make Digital Transformation and Multicloud Journeys Smarter — created in collaboration with Dell Technologies — Futurum analyst Ron Westfall offers insight into the current state of IT environments, AIOps, and how organizations are looking to do more with less. We also explore potential solutions that can help fulfill the needs of enterprises today.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why HPE GreenLake can easily meet the growing demand across organizations to balance their cloud workloads across colocation, on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud environments as well as provide the practical capabilities and solutions needed to advance their cloud journey regardless of their situation.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres features data masking, transparent data encryption, and dedicated audit log, combined with its range of expert database services, are key to preventing disruptive and costly security breaches as well as the agility to shut down fast-changing cybersecurity threats, including containerized databases that provide a critical missing link in high-velocity DevSecOps cycles, allowing development and operations teams to collaborate using container management platforms to optimize organization-wide data protection.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Volvo and SAIC OEM deals in combination with CES 2023 sales and marketing momentum enables Luminar to execute effectively on CEO Austin Russell’s vision for the company as well as raise the market profile of Iris lidar technology and its use of a single 1550nm fiber laser, further sharpening differentiation with 905nm solutions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Dell’s Concept Nyx initiative explores how virtual worlds and immersive experiences could develop into new ways to connect with others as well as our content, especially in alignment with the ability to intuitively distribute headset-free XR/VR content across any preferred screen and capitalizing on the market potential for headset-free XR applications such as 5G-enabled holography.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Intel’s new 13th Gen mobile processors, HX, H-series, P-series, and U-series, are poised to transform the overall laptop experience including making further inroads throughout the gaming and creator communities, while providing key differentiation against key rival AMD and its Ryzen 7000 series processors.

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