Insight Type: Research Note

Technology Removes Friction Associated with Moving Data Between Physical and Digital Realms
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Scandit’s Empower 2024 event, and discusses the key commonalities among successful implementations of smart data capture technology.
Hammerspace Announced New Appliance Offerings for Its Global Data Platform Software
Mitch Lewis Research Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers Hammerspace’s announcement of new appliance offerings.
AI and Cloud Innovations Leading the Way Forward
The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Keith Kirkpatrick share their insights on Salesforce's Q2 FY25 financial performance, highlighting the company's AI advancements, strong revenue growth, and cloud expansions that drove market-leading results.
Empower Your Team with GenAI
Paul Nashawaty highlights Broadcom’s strategic investments post-acquisition of Tanzu, suggesting that VMware could similarly benefit from a focused, long-term innovation strategy under Broadcom’s ownership.
NetApp Inc. reported strong Q1 FY25 financial results, with a 7.6% YoY revenue growth driven by cloud services and AI integration advancements. The company’s strategic focus on high-demand areas has significantly boosted profitability.
The Introduction of Telum II Is Timely, as IBM Continues to Deliver Strong Revenue Performance Even Late Into the Z16 Cycle.
Steven Dickens highlights how IBM's Telum II processor marks a significant leap forward in mainframe technology, particularly for transactional AI workloads. The advanced cache architecture, designed to optimize performance for complex data processing, is crucial for environments that require high-speed, secure, and reliable computing. With IBM actively developing over 200 AI use cases, the Telum II processor is poised to deliver substantial innovation, especially as IBM readies its next-generation mainframe system for release in 2025. This strategic focus positions IBM to meet the growing demands of enterprise computing in the AI era.
AI Security Gets a Boost: Cisco to Buy Robust Intelligence
Krista Case, Research Director with The Futurum Group, covers Cisco’s planned acquisition of Robust Intelligence for AI security.
AMD, Cisco, Lenovo, HPE, and Huawei make strategic moves to strengthen their positions in AI, cloud computing, and infrastructure. In the latest Six Five webcast, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss their innovations and market challenges.
Marvell, GlobalFoundries, Google, CrowdStrike, Intel, and OpenAI are advancing their positions in the competitive technology landscape. In their latest Six Five webcast, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss strategic partnerships, innovations, and challenges as these companies navigate the rapidly evolving semiconductors, AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing sectors.
Dion Hinchcliffe, Vice President and Practice Lead, CIO at The Futurum Group shares his insights on transformative advancements across the tech industry. From the game-changing expansion of the Dell and Nutanix partnership to the projected rise in IT budgets driven by AI investments, this episode explores the critical decisions and strategies shaping the future of enterprise technology. Additionally, the news report sheds further light on the transformative impact of AI on IT jobs, the rise of what are known as Large Action Models (LAMs), and the ongoing debate between Kubernetes and AWS ECS, making it a must-watch for anyone navigating the rapidly evolving IT landscape.
In this analysis, Steven Dickens explores Lenovo’s strategic introduction of Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services, aimed at simplifying AI deployment for enterprises. Drawing on Futurum's research, the article emphasizes the growing prevalence of hybrid AI deployments and Lenovo's role in helping businesses accelerate time to value.

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