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The Futurum Group Research and Pioneering Industry Leaders Show Success in Navigating the Mainframe Skills Landscape
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens highlights research showing a growing mainframe talent pool, with 65% of universities and 91% of employers reporting an increase in skilled workers. Broadcom's training programs are crucial in addressing this gap.
Cisco Routed PON Debuts Aimed at Delivering Broadband Services in an Agile and Cost-effective Way by Overcoming Limitations of Traditional OLT Technology
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses Cisco Routed PON, which uses advanced features and capabilities of the Cisco router while capitalizing on the cost efficiency of PON networks to enable cost-effective, agile broadband services.
Solo.io Announces General Availability of Gloo Network for Cilium to Streamline Integration Across Hybrid Cloud Environments
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens and Paul Nashawaty discuss how eBPF and Cilium are revolutionizing cloud computing with advanced Linux kernel capabilities and networking for cloud-native applications.
The Potential Sale Signals a Significant Development in the Tech Industry and Has the Potential to Reshape the Company’s Trajectory and Impact the Broader Ecosystem
The Futurum Group’s Paul Nashawaty discusses cloud software vendor HashiCorp’s reported consideration of a potential sale, signaling a significant shift in strategy for the San Francisco-based company.
Eric Boyd and Brendan Burns, CVPs at Microsoft, join us to share their insights on leveraging open source for AI innovation and Microsoft's strategic vision. Discover how Microsoft's advancements and collaborations in AI and open source are sculpting the future of AI app development.
In this episode of Infrastructure Matters – Insider Edition, host Steven Dickens is joined by Ed Airey, VP of Marketing at AveriSource for a conversation on how AveriSource is helping organizations gain more insights and knowledge about their applications, empowering them to be able to modernize.
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the value of the VAST Data platform for AI pipelines. VAST Data announced partnerships with NVIDIA and Supermicro with new AI capabilities.
Jinman Han, Jim Elliott, and Marco Chisari join us to share insights on Samsung's AI vision and strategy, highlighting how their unique products and solutions are addressing customer challenges in the AI space.
An Assessment of The Key MWC24 Takeaways in Open RAN Highlighted by Ericsson Cloud RAN, Nokia anyRAN, Energy Efficiency Moves, and Mavenir/Intel Innovations
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall reviews the top Open RAN takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Ericsson Cloud RAN portfolio advances, Nokia’s anyRAN market readiness including anyRAN for enterprise partnerships with Cisco, HPE, and Microsoft, as well as Mavenir’s latest collaboration with Intel to assure Open vRAN innovation and progress.
Phil Buckellew, President of Infrastructure Modernization at Rocket Software, joins us to shed light on how businesses are modernizing their infrastructure without disruption by leveraging hybrid cloud strategies and enhancing mainframe security.
Generative AI Amazes and Surprises Us but Comes with Many Ethical, Privacy, and Legal Concerns
The Futurum Group’s Dr. Bob Sutor adds context to and expands upon several points made during a generative AI and ethics panel discussion during the NVIDIA GTC 2024 conference.
Pasqal Published a Roadmap for Delivering 10,000 Qubits in 2026 and Error Correction via Logical Qubits Later in the Decade
The Futurum Group’s Dr. Bob Sutor examines quantum computing company Pasqal’s new roadmap and puts it in context with quantum computing approaches from other vendors.

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