Insight Type: Market Coverage

Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at RISC-V computing leader SiFive’s announcement of the opening of its new U.K.-based R&D center and its bold plans to hire more than 100 workers for its global operations over the next two years.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer takes a look at Volkswagen’s sale of minority shares in Electrify America to Siemens, why it’s needed, and what it might mean for the future of electric vehicles in the US.
Futurum's Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss look at the just-unveiled plans by STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build a new chip plant in France that will increase their chip making capacity by 622,000 wafers, even as plans for U.S. chip making facilities are stalled.
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss and fellow Futurum analysts explore FedEx’s move to shut its data centers and mainframes by 2024 and take its IT operations to the cloud to save $400 million a year as it battles its competitors in a fierce shipping and logistics marketplace.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why NEC’s acquisition of Aspire Technology strengthen its hand in the nascent Open RAN market segments, boosts sales and marketing prospects for Netcracker, and can help advance integration and interoperability assurances across intricate Open RAN 5G environments.
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how Google Cloud’s open source expertise will be sold to customers on a subscription basis starting in Q3 as the company moves to market its own vetted open source code as a service.
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores IBM’s acquisition of Databand.ai, a leading data observability software provider, offering insight on how this software will improve IBM’s existing observability solutions.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the general availability of Apace Iceberg on Cloudera Data Platform advances the ecosystem-wide mission of expanding openness for data lakehouses while handling data anywhere across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as addresses increasing enterprise demand for improving time to value for their data science teams while operating at the speed of innovation while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Juniper’s expanded Cloud Metro proposition, including new capabilities such as Paragon Automation as a Service and new ACX7000 product enhancements, is well-positioned to power CSP sustainable business growth objectives including the acceleration of 5G SA network builds, more intelligent flexible edge cloud hosting, and service experience innovation.
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how NVIDIA and Siemens are partnering to develop and enable an industrial metaverse by connecting NVIDIA Omniverse with Siemens Xcelerator platform to empower customers with new industrial metaverse opportunities and capabilities.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Snowflake’s recent Unistore launch represents a notable divergence from the company’s portfolio development strategy of using a single, specialized platform to address the evolving data warehousing and analytics demands of customers, emulating the converged database portfolio development strategies of rivals such as Oracle who already offer market-proven transactional and analytical capabilities.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens covers the announcements made at the Data & AI Summit 2022 this week in San Francisco, organized by Databricks. As organizations look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, many are turning to open source approaches such as Lakehouse and Spark, and Databricks appears to be well-positioned to see strong growth in the months ahead.

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