Insight Type: Research Note

Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer reacts to the swift growth in cloud transformation services SAP has achieved through RISE with SAP and a new partner co-sell program, with insight into the example the company provides regarding the potential offered by investment in cloud transformation.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Nokia’s MX Boost technology addresses the growing demand across Industry 4.0 connectivity environments for private wireless capabilities that can flexibly bond 4.9G/5G with Wi-Fi, strengthens its private wireless network portfolio, and can help accelerate key emerging use cases such as Wi-Fi 6 + Wi-Fi 6E and LTE/5G + Wi-Fi 6E.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how Amdocs and AWS provided the AI-enabled, cloud-based business assurance solution that he sees assisting T-Mobile’s merger synergies across the vast, intricate Sprint merger process.
Futurum analyst Michael Diamond looks at Hewlett-Packard’s latest two ZBook mobile workstations, which get component upgrades aimed at bringing more compute power to resource-hungry creative and technical professionals working in hybrid and remote locations.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer reacts to the doubled valuation of cloud banking fintech firm Thought Machine during a recent Series D round, a signal that there is still room in the expanding cloud market for specialist companies that speed cloud transformation, and takes a look at what’s ahead for Thought Machine.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall evaluates the formation of Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub enabling both companies to pool their R&D resources to advance Ericsson Cloud RAN capabilities running on Intel technology, ease CNF application adoption, and provide a roadmap for upcoming commercial software releases as CSPs evolve their RAN strategies in the emerging Open 5G era.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Pure Storage’s new Portworx portfolio enhancements, including general availability of Portworx Data Services, meet growing developer demand for swift ease of use combined with elastic scaling and automated capabilities as well as strict organizational requirements for data protection and access control across fast-growing Kubernetes development environments.
Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss examine Cisco’s Q3 results, with revenue hitting $12.8B, which was flat year-over-year, as financial impacts arrive due to Covid-19 lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine.
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines the new 10-point open source software security mobilization plan from The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF that lays out how software creation must be changed to fulfill a critical White House goal of strengthening open source software security.
In this research report, Futurum Research examines why in selecting the optimal microprocessor architecture organizations must take a comprehensive approach in understanding the strategic microprocessor architecture powering their implementations. This includes understanding fully that the migration off of x86 to Arm for most companies would prove to be a significant undertaking at a point in where the diverse x86 offerings in market are market tested and trusted by enterprises to run the vast majority of enterprise applications—especially those critical in nature.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer and Futurum junior analyst Lauren Kirkpatrick take a look at Microsoft’s upcoming release of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability offering scheduled for GA on June 1st, and designed to help organizations accelerate their sustainability progress, regardless of where they are in their sustainability journeys.

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