Insight Type: Research Note

Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss analyzes how burger chain Jack in the Box is conducting a fast food robotics pilot project to try to fill challenging staffing shortages in a tight labor market through the use of robotic fryers and drink machines to better serve hungry customers.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcements from Red Hat. As the Kubernetes landscape matures and the focus pivots from DevOps to a more developer focused approach, Red Hat’s unveiling of Red Hat Application Foundations will provide much needed enhanced cloud capabilities, and should substantially facilitate streamlined app development for developers.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman explores the news that Nissan will utilize Luminar’s LIDAR technology in its next-generation advanced driver systems, offering insight on how this will expand Luminar’s reach in the automotive industry.
Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer responds to Ogilvy UK’s plan to phase out collaboration with influencers who edit their faces and bodies with insight into the social impact of authenticity and diversity in modern marketing practices.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores the Cisco Cloud Networking proposition and why it is well-suited for the multi-cloud era, addressing the design, deployment, and operation of a network across and within multiple cloud environments at scale for any application. For IT leaders making decisions about the future of their networks and cloud transformation journeys, the Cisco Cloud Network portfolio should rank high on consideration lists.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer examines cybersecurity concerns facing healthcare institutions with insight into the potential impact of the recently-introduced bipartisan Healthcare Cybersecurity Act on those organizations and the public.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer explores Nike’s entrance into the metaverse with its virtual store Nikeland, taking a look at the innovative opportunities it opens up for ecommerce, virtual products, and a new kind of brand engagement for Nike customers.
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines Oracle's latest plans to offer all-new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences powered by AMD EPYC processors for hybrid cloud users as Oracle expands its use of AMD EPYC CPUs beyond Oracle's existing E3 and E4 compute instances.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Oracle Exadata Cloud X9M debut can enable Oracle to defend and upgrade its vast X9M/X8M customer base through OLTP and Analytics performance and scale advances that maintain existing costs as well as create the differentiation needed to compel rivals such as AWS and Azure to take swift heed of Oracle’s latest cloud database portfolio development and marketing moves.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman explores Amazon’s new offering, Buy with Prime that will expand Prime shopping benefits to other online retailers beyond Amazon.com. Newman offers insight into how this offering will impact retailers and Amazon.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer provides analysis of Salesforce’s renaming of its Tableau CRM product to Salesforce CRM Analysis and discusses the impact of recently announced features to be rolled out this summer.

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