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In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover what’s new in the 5G ecosystem, including news about T-Mobile and Samsung, Nokia’s refreshed brand and strategy and why that’s significant, Vodafone and Raspberry Pi, and a peek at our findings in our latest market insight report on 5G and Sustainability.
The Futurum Group analyst Michael Diamond explores Amazon Fire TV’s strategy that seeks to position Fire TV as the hub of the smart home. With 200 million Amazon Fire TV devices in use throughout the world, the company continues to innovate around serving up more personalized experiences for customers, and is also exploring ways for users to get more out of their smart devices by using their smart TVs as a hub for the home.
The Futurum Group principal analyst Shelly Kramer examines the Salesforce announcement of the company’s intention to integrate Einstein GPT and Data Cloud into Flow, the company’s workflow automation suite, and explores what that means for users in terms of more rapidly being able to realize the benefits of generative AI and better serve customers in the process.
The Six Five – In The Booth for RSA 2023, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Chris Meenan, VP of Product Management, Threat Detection and Response at IBM.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why the Marvell and TSMC partnership to deliver Marvell’s new 3nm portfolio can broaden and catalyze data infrastructure ecosystem adoption of Marvell interconnect, SerDes, and parallel interface capabilities as computing system applications, such as cloud, AI, networking, 5G, automotive, and custom solutions, expand in scope, intricacy, and use case range.
The Futurum Group analyst Michael Diamond covers Groq’s recent GroqDay event and offers his thoughts on the company’s mission to disrupt the AI market by reducing the complexity and cost, while also speeding up the artificial intelligence process for its users.
The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall assess Nokia’s fiscal Q1 2023 results, highlighted by Nokia delivering a solid start to 2023 with Q1 net sales growing nine percent in constant currency due primarily to India 5G, Optical, and Enterprise delivering robust performance, as well as how ongoing portfolio-wide energy efficiency initiatives bolster Nokia’s strategic goal of turning ESG fulfillment into an enduring competitive edge.
The Futurum Group analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss share their insights as IBM Q1 revenue hits $14.3B, up 0.4% YoY, and EPS beats estimates as Big Blue continues to see its AI and hybrid cloud strategies playing out well in the market, with IBM maintaining a solid financial performance against a still-difficult macroeconomic environment around the world.
Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), provides insights on the challenges technical debt can pose for an organization and explores steps organizations can take to minimize the damage.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer explores news coming out of HIMSS 2023 around the partnership between Microsoft and Epic, integrating OpenAI into Epic’s EHR and the benefits for patients and business outcomes for healthcare providers that will produce.
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group) explores the importance of Zero Trust principles and how they will guide the architecture of IT infrastructures and networks — and why this is crucial for companies to adopt into their data protection strategies.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why OCI and Druid Software can make inroads in the tightly contested private 5G network market through OCI’s support of flexible shapes for telco workloads including right-sizing the number of cores and amount of memory in 1-core or 1-GB increments when enterprise and telco customers use or resize Compute instances. 2023 represents a good year for OCI and Druid to win mindshare and expand their presence in the still burgeoning private 5G network market.

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