Insight Type: Research Note

After a six year truce, Microsoft and Google end their cease fire. This happening amidst a ramp in global regulatory action.
The new Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU solution is positioned to gain rapid traction in meeting the burgeoning security, networking, and storage workload demands of the data center, cloud, 5G, carrier, and enterprise realms as the sampling process unfolds in H2 2021. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Marvell’s new OCTEON 10 DPU is clearly differentiated and why the solution is well-suited to advance processing capabilities such as parsing, classification, and inline IPSec applications using hardware accelerators to provide ML and vector packet processing as well as Terabir switching key to delivering performance and power efficiency breakthroughs.
Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the recent Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 announcement and what it means for the competitive landscape for Kubernetes management and more widely the hybrid cloud landscape.
The proposed NVIDIA acquisition of Arm has received a mass of attention. This week, Broadcom and Marvell came out in support of the deal.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent announcement by Canonical to support RISC-V with the Ubuntu operating system. Canonical has for years now taken the most holistic approach to porting Ubuntu to multiple platforms. While open source leaders such as Red Hat and SUSE focus on x86 based architectures, Canonical has taken a different path and arguably the most open.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the emerging trend around VC investment in blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure. Not only are these investments significant in size, they are directionally significant as the provide insight into where the blockchain and cryptocurrency space are in the evolutionary maturity.
Rakuten Mobile, NEC, and Intel have attained a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerized User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerized 5G Standalone core network. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the demo strengthens the open model 5G credentials of the Rakuten, NEC, and Intel and how the 5G power trio can further advance the Open 5G cause.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of HPE’s Discover event around the latest zero-trust solution, Project Aurora. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, new approaches are required to combat the emerging threats. HPE’s zero-trust approach is designed to deliver robust attestation and verification derived through a root-of-trust model at the silicon layer.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on IBM’s continued support of the Wimbledon tennis championships. IBM is delivering AI-driven enriched fan experiences delivered through IBM Watson and hybrid cloud services to engage new and existing tennis fans globally.
Over the past few days there were several interesting stories that broke on AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Lattice Semiconductor
The Microsoft Windows 11 has finally, and officially, been confirmed by Microsoft, with the company promising availability as a free upgrade to Microsoft 10 users first, and available in the wild sometime in October, with new hardware running the OS. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer breaks down the nuances of the “next generation of Windows” announcement from Microsoft, clearly focused on ease, productivity, and creativity.

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