Insight Type: Market Coverage

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Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Amdocs’ announcement of amAIz, its generative AI solution, and discusses how grounding open AI models with telecommunications-specific expertise and experience can help organizations deploy usable generative AI use cases quickly.
Mitch Lewis, Research Analyst at The Futurum Group, assesses new data protection and cyber-resiliency focused updates to NetApp’s BlueXP multi-cloud data management platform.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Cisco uplifts its end-to-end Network Assurance as well as Data Center and Provider Connectivity portfolio capabilities with the Accedian and SamKnows acquisitions. Now Cisco, through its ThousandEyes platform and comprehensive visibility portfolio assets, can enhance digital experiences across the global digital ecosystem by minimizing the network disruptions that can undermine business outcomes, diminish productivity, and harm brand reputation.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Cisco’s announcement that Webex Contact Center for Government has gained FedRAMP authorization, and highlights the value of non-federal government agencies selecting software that has also gone through the FedRAMP authorization program.
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group covers recently released research from IFS showing current telco challenges and some of the technologies that communication service providers plan on adopting to solve them.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest from BMC. BMC AMI Cloud is a portfolio that addresses the challenges of managing mainframe data in the hybrid cloud era. It offers benefits such as scalability, cost effectiveness, simplified management, and enhanced accessibility. By leveraging a hybrid cloud strategy, organizations can overcome the limitations of on-premises infrastructure and ensure data resilience. BMC's AMI Cloud Vault protects mainframe data from cyber threats, while AMI Cloud Analytics enables the utilization of mainframe data by cloud-based applications, improving decision-making and reducing costs. These solutions revolutionize mainframe data management, providing flexibility, scalability, and security.
Futurum Group Research Director, Ron Westfall and Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond examine Qualcomm’s 212S and 9205S modems, which are designed to help manufacturers build products that need excellent satellite and cellular connectivity in rural environments.
Futurum industry analyst, Michael Diamond looks at the continued partnership between Qualcomm and Sony, using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Mobile Platform for Sony’s premium and mid-tier devices.
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers the launch of Verint’s Enterprise Experience Management and covers the aggressive roadmap for future capabilities.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses the ways in which Exadata X10M redefines what a cloud database platform should truly deliver, including why running Oracle Database on any other platform than Exadata X10M is basically equivalent to running the software in degraded mode on un-optimized, subpar infrastructure. Now, organizations can run Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M, which brings levels of ML and AI-powered automation and innovation that simply are not available from other cloud database providers.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers an undesirable travel interaction, and discusses the best practices that were employed by the company after negative feedback was provided to the company via a post-visit survey.

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