Insight Type: Market Coverage

Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens and Analyst Mike Diamond provide their take on the latest announcements from HP’s Poly team with the launch of the Voyager Free 60+. As hybrid work becomes the norm, the modern worker is demanding more from earphones and when coupled with corporate IT requirements, a new market segment emerges – the corporate earphone.
Futurum Group's senior analyst Ron Westfall assesses why the TBN deal validates that the joint Nyriad/DigitalGlue solution excels across key media workflow selection criteria such as performance, resilience, efficiency, and ease of deployment and explores how Nyriad and DigitalGlue have delivered a breakthrough solution that demonstrably streamlines end-to-end production workflows, augments collaboration, while minimizing complexity and saving time, fueling sales and marketing momentum for both companies.
Steve Vonder Haar, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, covers news of the Pivotal Group’s acquisition of the webcasting unit of PGi, with plans to operate under the GlobalMeet brand, marking the end of an almost-decade long effort by PGi – a one-time giant in the world of audio conferencing services – to drive revenue growth by offering corporate webcasting services and technologies.
Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from IBM concerning the high-end Linux only server range, LinuxONE. As IBM launches the latest variant of the LinuxONE systems, namely the Rockhopper 4, the market is primed for adoption. With a combination of security, availability, scalability, performance, and sustainability IBM’s LinuxONE is primed for mainstream adoption.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from AWS around its announcement of EC2 instances focused on generative Ai workloads. As AI moves toward mainstream adoption enterprises are looking to deploy generative AI workloads on the public cloud. With this trend emerging, AWS has responded with GA of Inf2 instances that are perfectly suited to generative AI deployments.
The Futurum Group’s analyst Todd R. Weiss shares his insights as Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm on new SoC designs for next-gen low-power chips that will run on Arm-designed cores, using Intel 18A process technology for mobile devices.
The Futurum Group’s VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from OpenText around its plans to further invest in the European market, specifically in the IT Operations tooling space. As the geopolitical landscape further fractures, customers are looking for enhanced data sovereignty and local deployments of their SaaS solutions. OpenText is observing this trend and investing accordingly to position itself for future growth.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why Alibaba Cloud is mapping out the strategy required to harness generative AI to advance intelligent enterprise business outcomes and user experience capabilities, as well as keen on monitoring how Alibaba Cloud and China’s regulators address and advance the ethical dimensions of generative AI technology.
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the partnership between VMware and Mavenir can both help fuel and benefit from Open RAN’s worldwide market momentum. CSP initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help fasten adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and into the foreseeable future. Combined with the strategic backing of major CSP operators seeking less reliance on proprietary RAN solutions and more supplier flexibility, the prospects for the VMware-Mavenir duo are brightening in 2023 and throughout the 2020s.
Futurum analyst Michael Diamond discusses Cisco’s latest “In the Know” session with key Cisco executives exploring Cisco’s overarching security strategy and how the company is making things easier for partners, as the company is in rapid pursuit of expanding its share of the security market.
The Futurum Groups’s Shelly Kramer examines the recently filed Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) complaint against OpenAI’s GPT-4 for violating FTC consumer protection rules.
Futurum principal analyst and chief evangelist Shelly Kramer covers the recent launch of SAP Datasphere and explores the benefits it brings to organizations, including enabling them to quickly deliver meaningful data with business context and logic intact with a business data fabric architecture that can utilize both SAP and non-SAP data.

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