Insight Type: Market Coverage

New Collaborative AI-RAN Innovation Center to Tap into Combination of 5G Advanced and AI to Transform Customer Experiences and Drive New Business Outcomes
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why T-Mobile and its key AI RAN partners, NVIDIA, Ericsson, and Nokia, are taking advantage of increased mobile ecosystem interest in AI RAN fueled heavily by the accelerating integration of AI throughout RAN portfolio development and deployments.
Quantinuum Lays Out Its Plan to Reach Thousands of Qubits in 2029
Dr. Bob Sutor, Vice President and Practice Lead of Emerging Technologies at The Futurum Group, examines Quantinuum’s plans to reach thousands of qubits by the decade’s end. It’s an aggressive plan, with a big jump in the last two years.
Does Lenovo and Intel’s “Aura Edition” Partnership Give Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Differentiation in the Copilot+ AI PC Ecosystem?
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, highlights how “Aura Edition” laptops, the result of a partnership between Lenovo and Intel, may give us a glimpse into how PC OEMs and their silicon partners could drive a new era of differentiation in the nascent Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem.
Managing Cloud Costs Amid AI and Cloud-Native Adoption
Paul Nashawaty and Steven Dickens of The Futurum Group cover IBM's acquisition of Kubecost, a cost monitoring and management tool for Kubernetes, marking a step toward providing a comprehensive cost management platform for cloud-native applications.
Veeam Makes a Strategic Move to Enhance Positioning in Next-Generation, AI-Driven Cyber Resilience
Krista Case, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Veeam’s acquisition of Alcion and its appointment of Niraj Tolia as CTO. The move will strengthen its AI cyber resilience capabilities.
Google’s New Vault Offering Enhances Its Cloud Backup Services, Addressing Compliance, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery
Krista Case, Research Director at The Futurum Group, offers insights on Google Cloud’s new vault offering and how this strategic move enhances data protection, compliance, and cyber recovery, positioning Google against competitors such as AWS and Azure.
Capabilities Focus on Helping Customers Execute Tasks and Surface Timely Insights
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Oracle’s Fusion Applications innovations announced at CloudWorld, and discusses the company’s key challenges.
OCI Zero Trust Packet Routing Zeros in on Enabling Organizations to Minimize Data Breaches by Decoupling Network Configuration from Network Security
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why newly proposed OCI ZPR technology can usher in a new era of network security across multi-cloud environments by decoupling security policies from the complexities of network configurations and simplifying security policy management.
Microsoft Turns Its Sights to the Commercial PC Segment With a New Set of Surface Copilot+ Laptops and 5G Integration
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, provides an overview of Microsoft’s latest Surface Copilot+ PC announcements aimed at the commercial PC segments, and why 5G integration makes more sense in that segment than in the consumer side of the Surface ecosystem.
Qualcomm’s New Mainstream-Tier Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core AI PC Processor May Be the Key to Scale for Copilot+ Windows-On-Arm Adoption
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, discusses why Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core AI PC processor, unveiled at IFA Berlin, could be the scale and adoption accelerator MVP that the Copilot+ Windows-on-Arm AI PC segment needs as the PC refresh cycle begins to gather momentum.
AWS Invests £8 Billion in the UK, Focusing on Sovereign Cloud and Compliance
Steven Dickens at The Futurum Group highlights AWS's £8 billion UK investment as a strategic move to address the rising demand for sovereign cloud solutions in highly regulated sectors such as financial services. He emphasizes that this expansion reflects the broader trend of hyperscalers increasing their focus on data sovereignty and compliance, particularly in Europe.
Lenovo Announces New Consumer Copilot+ AI PCs Powered by Snapdragon, Ryzen, and Core Ultra Processors at Lenovo Innovation World in Berlin
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, highlights Lenovo’s new consumer Copilot+ AI PC launches at the IFA show in Berlin, which for the first time includes processors from all three Windows PC semiconductor giants: Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.

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