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Sap Q1 FY 2025 Sees Continued Success in Cloud Transformation, With 27% Cloud Growth and Operating Margin up 810 BPS
Keith Kirkpatrick and Daniel Newman at The Futurum Group examine SAP’s Q1 FY 2025 earnings, highlighting strong cloud ERP growth, rising AI adoption, and resilience amid macro and tariff pressures.
As It Gathered Its Community, CyberArk Moves Beyond PAM With Bold Plays in Securing AI Agents, Machine Identity Control, and Unified Platform Integration
Krista Case, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares her insights on CyberArk IMPACT 2025.
The Micron G9 NAND Mobile UFS 4.1 Solution Provides the Innovation Key to Enabling Faster and More Responsive Experiences on Flagship Smartphones
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall shares his insights on why Micron’s G9 NAND with UFS 4.1 and UFS 3.1 drives the mobile ecosystem forward by delivering faster, more efficient, and AI-optimized storage solutions.
Expanded NetApp Volumes Capabilities Extend Enterprise-Grade AI and EDA Storage to Google Cloud with Enhanced Scalability, Cost Control, and Compliance Features
Camberley Bates and Krista Case of The Futurum Group share insights on how NetApp and Google Cloud’s storage updates enable scalable, AI-ready, and compliance-aware cloud infrastructure.
On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the whiplash-inducing tariff announcements affecting US-China trade, Intel's strategic move to sell a majority stake in Altera to Silver Lake, and activist investor Elliott Management's stake in HPE. The hosts engage in a lively debate on the merits of selling AI chips to China, exploring the complex interplay between national security, economic interests, and technological advancement.
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines why investors behind NVIDIA and Meta are backing Hammerspace to remove AI data bottlenecks and improve performance at scale.
Looking Beyond the Dashboard: Tableau Bets Big on AI Grounded in Semantic Data to Define Its Next Chapter
Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Keith Kirkpatrick cover the latest developments from Tableau Conference, focused on the new AI and data-management enhancements to the visualization platform.
Colleen Kapase, VP at Google Cloud, joins Tiffani Bova to share insights on enhancing partner opportunities and harnessing AI for growth.
Ericsson Introduces Wireless-First Branch Architecture for Agile, Secure Connectivity to Support AI-Driven Enterprise Innovation
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall shares his insights on why Ericsson’s new wireless-first architecture and the E400 fulfill key emerging enterprise trends, such as 5G Advanced, IoT proliferation, and increased reliance on wireless-first implementations.
Mark Lohmeyer, VP & GM Compute and ML Infrastructure at Google, joins the Six Five team to explore how Google Cloud's customized infrastructure meets the diverse needs of AI and cloud workloads.
Hayete Gallot, President of Customer Experience at Google, joins Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman to discuss the evolving role of customer experience in the AI-driven landscape.
Microsoft Reinforces Its Commitment to Kubernetes, Announcing Open-Source Headmap UI and Enhancements for Running AI Workloads on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) with RAG, vLLM, Custom GPU Drivers
Mitch Ashley at The Futurum Group shares his insights on advancements in Microsoft AKS with AI workload, Rag, vLLM upgrades, and Headlamp open-source contribution to CNCF to simplify Kubernetes management and reduce complexity.

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