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Daniel Newman

Salesforce Rolls Out Its Slack-First Customer 360 Strategy

This week Salesforce top executives rolled out their strategy for Slack following the completion of the $27 billion acquisition.
Steven Dickens

With The Argus System, Microsoft Research and Collaborators Seek to Leverage Ethereum to Prevent Piracy

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Qualcomm Spoke Partnership Brings C-V2X to Bicycles, Expands Smart Transportation Safety Ecosystem

Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard breaks down how Qualcomm’s partnership with Spoke, the mobility platform, finally brings C-V2X technology to vulnerable road users (VRUs) like cyclists and scooter riders to make sharing the road with cars and trucks more safe. This analysis covers some of the most positive aspects of this partnership, as well as some of the main market hurdles that Spoke’s solutions may initially encounter in its first 12 to 24 months.
Ron Westfall

The Broadband Future is Fiberlicious

The recent Fiber Connect 2021 event showcased the latest fiber technology innovations and breakthroughs that make fiber the best-suited technology to advance broadband services that fulfill society-wide and economic objectives. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how major ecosystem players Clearfield, ADTRAN, Radisys, Calix, DZS< and Nokia show why their portfolio’s bolster the fiber business case across the full-spectrum of broadband deployment scenarios, including full-fiber MDU, broadband intelligence, 5G/WiFI, and Combo PON applications, that confirms fiber is the best solution to meet current and emerging broadband demands.
Shelly Kramer

Accenture Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack Following Report of Increase in …. Ransomware

Accenture falls victim to ransomware attack following its recent report of increases in …. Ransomware. Irony that is not lost on Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer as she takes a look at the ransomware attack perpetrated by LockBit on one of the world’s largest tech consultancy firms.
Daniel Newman

Salesforce is Getting into the Streaming Media Business with Salesforce+

Futurum’s Principal analyst Daniel Newman provides his take on Salesforce’s new foray into digital streaming media, Salesforce+. Daniel explores the details of the new platform and what it will mean for the CRM giant.
Shelly Kramer

Google Cloud Rolls Out Google Cloud Retail Search Functionality, Delivers Big Assist to Retailers

Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer offers insights on Google Cloud’s rollout of Google Cloud Retail Search functionality, delivering a big assist to retailers by serving up Google-quality search functionality on their own digital properties.
Steven Dickens

What Does the Poly Network Hack Mean for DeFi

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the huge $600 million DeFi hack performed on the Poly Network. As the details of the hack become apparent Dickens takes a look at the details behind the hack and the wider implications for DeFi going forward.
Daniel Newman

Microsoft Acquires Peer5 to Address Demand for Live Video Streaming

This week Microsoft acquired a small but strategic company, Peer 5, to address the growing demand for live video streaming in Teams.
Steven Dickens

Square Announces Afterpay Acquisition, Potentially Disrupting Everyone

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on payments provider Square’s acquisition of Buy-Now-Pay-Later leader Afterpay. With the landscape for payments and fintech being disrupted daily, this acquisition will disrupt everyone from the credit card providers, to banks, as well as the wider digital payments landscape.
Ron Westfall

Oracle MySQL HeatWave Melts Snowflake with Unparalleled Price and Performance Advantages

Oracle introduces MySQL HeatWave immediately providing the extensive automation, unparalleled performance, scalability, lower costs, and blended OLTP/OLAP workload optimization advantages that completely snow under any Snowflake database service offering. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why MySQL HeatWave compares so favorably against Snowflake across key performance and price/performance metrics that gives Oracle a virtually insurmountable competitive edge.
Shelly Kramer

Cisco Launches Vidcast, a New Video Solution to Increase Flexibility and Productivity in the Workplace

Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers Cisco’s launch of Vidcast, a new video solution that’s squarely aimed at increasing both flexibility and productivity, and making team collaboration even easier, and better, than ever. Vidcast is the first innovation to come out of Webex Leap, an accelerator program also launched this last week, designed to drive ideas and bring products to the Webex Suite faster. Here’s why getting on that Vidcast beta wait list might need to be on your to-do list.
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