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The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Google PaLM 2, while showing improvements in key areas, remains very much a work in progress due to factors such as alarmingly high toxicity rates as well as the economic and environmental implications of scaling language models and generative AI, requiring Google to directly address of the full range of concerns to assure sustained PaLM 2 progress.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer covers news of ServiceNow’s impending acquisition of G2K, what this means for the retail industry and customers’ ability to better deliver for customers, and what’s ahead beyond retail.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer explores WalkMe Discovery. WalkMe’s latest digital technology is designed to provide real-time visibility into a company’s technology stack, helping identify what software is deployed and what’s happening with user adoption, but most importantly, WalkMe Discovery is designed to help organizations optimize and maximize their software investments, which is top of mind for many these days.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer explores Cisco’s recent announcement of its new Cisco Capital Business Acceleration Program being offered through Cisco Capital embracing Buy Now, Pay Later financing. Designed to help customers make tech investments, deferring payments until January 2024 — but will it fly?
On this episode of The Six Five CXO, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome IBM’s Kate Woolley, VMWare’s Zia Yusuf, and Brian Mullaney of CrushBank.
Mitch Lewis, research analyst at The Futurum Group, covers an update on the state of adoption of NVMe/TCP.
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from Cisco in the full stack observability space. Cisco announced it will integrate its AppDynamics application observability platform with ThousandEyes network intelligence, designed to help customers quickly identify and resolve performance issues, improve application performance and availability, and ensure a better user experience. Cisco's announcement is one of many signs that full-stack observability services are becoming increasingly important.
Sean Spradling, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, discusses the beta release of Zoom huddles, the experience of the product, and the longer-term implications of the new form of communication.
The Futurum Group Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond looks at recent announcements from the Google I/O 2023 event where the company added new devices to its Pixel lineup.
Dave Raffo, senior analyst at The Futurum Group (previously Evaluator Group), covers news from Nutanix out of its .NEXT 2023 event showcasing Nutanix’s multi-cloud focus, providing insights on both the company’s strategy and the challenges it faces ahead.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer reviews the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot (RVWP) pilot program designed to proactively warn critical infrastructure entities of unpatched vulnerabilities on their systems that put them at risk of a ransomware attack and also shares how to get your organization enrolled in the pilot program.
The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements around the general availability of AWS’s Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized configuration, a fully managed relational database service, designed to improve storage performance and reduce costs by up to 40%.

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