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Steven Dickens

VMworld 2021: VMware Doubles Down on the Cloud and Focuses on Flexibility and Speed

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of VMware’s flagship event VMworld 2021 in the cloud space. As VMware looks to pivot from virtualization to a cloud native world, the company announces a raft of enhancements designed to position its solutions at the heart of the hybrid, multi-cloud landscape.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Qualcomm’s New WiFi Dual Station Solution Brings Ethernet-Like Latency via WiFi to Windows 11 PCs

Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains how Qualcomm’s clever new WiFi Dual Station solution, coupled with Qualcomm FastConnect 4-stream Dual Band Simultaneous, brings ethernet-like reliability and latency to wireless gaming and video of Windows 11 PCs. Also discussed are the importance of Windows 11 native support to the solution’s broad industry adoption, as evidenced by Acer, AMD, Lenovo, Microsoft, Snapdragon Compute Platforms and Valve already moving to integrate it into their product ecosystems.
Daniel Newman

IBM Investor Briefing 2021: The Growth is Coming

Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman recap IBM’s Investor Day call, highlighting the areas where IBM has made and plans to make changes for the future.
Ron Westfall

Mavenir Adds ngOSS to Strengthen MAVscale and Open 5G Arsenal

Mavenir introduces its ngOSS offering as a new addition to its MAVscale platform, blending AI, analytics, automation, and orchestration key to advancing 5G capabilities through intelligent network operations. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Mavenir’s ngOSS bolsters its MAVscale platform and overall open 5G proposition by countering rival OSS offerings and augmenting the company’s open RAN messaging providing the foundation to make long-term competitive waves across the 5G ecosystem.
Shelly Kramer

Microsoft Adds New Features to Teams to Support Hybrid Work and Enabling Collaboration

Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer explores the latest feature announcements from Microsoft Teams. Kramer dives into how the upgrades will facilitate the successful hybrid work environments that organizations are looking for as we emerge from the pandemic.
Steven Dickens

Red Hat Doubles Down on Automation with Ansible Platform 2

AnsibleFest, Red Hat’s annual gathering for all things Automation kicked off recently and unsurprisingly the team launched the latest version of the Ansible offering, Ansible Platform 2. Futurum's Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement and what we can expect.
Ron Westfall

HPE GreenLake Meets Growing Ecosystem Demand for Cloud Data Protection and Unified Analytics

HPE introduces new cloud services, such as HPE GreenLake for analytics and HPE GreenLake for data protection, to augment the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new cloud service offerings strengthen HPE GreenLake’s competitive position across the hybrid cloud and public cloud market segments as well as heightens ecosystem awareness of the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework that is designed specifically to de-risk organization cloud journeys.
Daniel Newman

Oracle ERP Summit Full of Announcements and Updates to Automate Process and Enhance Decision-Making

Oracle unveiled a host of new updates and features at Oracle ERP Summit. Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the upgrades offering insight into the potential benefits each one can have on an organization’s bottom line.
Steven Dickens

Strike and Twitter Partner Up to Change Finance — Legacy Players Better Buckle Up

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement this week of the partnership between remittance network provider Strike and Twitter. As the world of finance becomes increasingly disrupted by new entrants and cloud native players, the landscape just changed dramatically as a social network with over 300 million global users partners with an innovative fintech to disrupt the old guard of the likes of Visa, PayPal, Mastercard and Western Union.
Ron Westfall

Oracle Exadata X9M Shellacs AWS and Azure with Latency, Throughput, and Cost Breakthroughs

Oracle launches Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M swiftly providing the OLTP I/O latency and analytics throughput advantages that vastly eclipse both the public cloud AWS RDS and Azure SQL offerings. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M shellacs the public cloud AWS and Azure offerings, let alone any on-premises options, across key latency, IOPS, throughput, and cost metrics that give Oracle a virtually insurmountable competitive edge.
Steven Dickens

Open Mainframe Goes from Strength to Strength

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the Open Mainframe Summit event taking place this week and the announcements the Linux Foundation collaborative project focused on the mainframe is making as part of the conference. As the mainframe transforms to fit within the hybrid landscape, open source represents a key component in the platform continuing its place in mission critical computing environments.
Shelly Kramer

Microsoft Issues Warning on Large Scale Phishing-as-a-Service Operation

Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team issued a warning on a large-scale phishing-as-a-service operation called BulletProofLink. Futurum’s Lead Analyst Shelly Kramer assesses the threat and offers insights why organizations should be concerned as well as how to protect themselves against future threats.
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