Insight Type: Market Coverage

July 14, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Check Point and Alibaba Cloud Raise the Multi-Cloud and Cloud Security Stakes

Check Point expands its Unified Cloud platform to support Alibaba Cloud elevating market awareness of its advanced security, visibility, and compliance capabilities of its cloud security portfolio, especially across multi-cloud environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Check Point’s integration of its CloudGuard solution with Alibaba Cloud strengthens its overall multi-cloud proposition and provides a marketing edge over rivals as well as how Alibaba Cloud benefits competitively from the Check Point relationship.

Cybersecurity & Resilience, Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 14, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Dell Technologies’ Making Real Progress on ESG and People-Focused Initiatives

Dell Technologies released its annual suit of ESG and social impact reports, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at what the company has accomplished over the course of the last year.

Cybersecurity & Resilience, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

July 14, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

Red Hat Announces Latest Version of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

As organizations increasingly move to multi cloud models, leveraging Kubernetes, automation is becoming critical as operations teams look to keep pace with their agile enabled developer brethren. Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the latest release of Red Hat’s Ansible Advanced Cluster Management offering.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Intelligent Devices

July 14, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

MongoDB Doubles Down on Core Offerings and the Cloud

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides in depth analysis of the news coming out of MongoDB’s live event of the updates to the core general purpose database platform.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 14, 2021

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

Microsoft Ignite(s) Deeper Integration Between Teams & Dynamics 365

Microsoft continues to push its ambitions to see Microsoft Teams as the centerpiece of work with new integrations into Dynamics 365

Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

July 13, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

Zoho Advances BI and Analytics Platform With New Self-service Approach, Aiming to Radically Transform Data Integrity and Business Insights

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis on the new functionality announced today by Zoho. With a focus on radically improving the ease of manipulation of data and a focus on enhancing data integrity, Zoho is transforming the insights business users can get from disparate data sources.

AI Platforms, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

July 12, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

AT&T and Google Cloud are Ready for Prime Time 5G and Edge Computing Business

AT&T and Google Cloud expand their 5G and edge collaboration targeting enterprises with a flexible combination of AT&T’s on-premises Multi-access Edge Compute solution and AT&T Network Edge Capabilities augmented by Google Cloud’s extensive edge PoPs and core proficiencies including Kubernetes container orchestration, AI/ML, data analytics, and ISV collaboration expertise. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why the expanded alliance boosts AT&T’s overall competitive prospects, especially in relation to main rival Verizon, and how AT&T now has the 5G and edge compute proposition needed to innovate immersive experiences and win more enterprise business.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 9, 2021

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

President Biden’s New Executive Order Zeroes in on Big Tech

Joe Biden issued a new executive order focused on more than 72 items where the White House wants to see greater scrutiny of Big Tech.

Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

July 9, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

HPE Extends GreenLake Capability with Ampool Acquisition

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the recent announcement by HPE of SQL data management vendor Ampool. HPE is building out capabilities for mission critical data management as a service with this acquisition that will complement both the Ezermal and GreenLake platforms, doubling down on streamlining the data management stack.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 8, 2021

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Nokia Eyes Enabling New 5G Mobile and IoT Service Revenue Streams with iSIM Launch

Nokia introduces its iSIM Secure Connect solution with initial marketing emphasis on vendor-agnostic design and streamlining cellular subscription lifecycle management with automation. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Nokia iSIM Secure Connect solution is well-suited to play a key role in making IoT connectivity and networking safer, especially since infection of IoT devices has shot up since 2019, paving the way for 5G mobile and IoT service quality and revenue streams and strengthening Nokia’s competitive hand.

Digital Leadership & CIO

July 8, 2021

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

IBM to Acquire BoxBoat, Doubles Down on Hybrid Cloud Services

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his insight on news coming out of IBM today on the acquisition of Kubernetes and container focused services business BoxBoat. This acquisition, although not significant in revenue terms, clearly shows IBM’s strategic intent to build a hybrid cloud focused services business post spinoff of Kyndryl.