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In this excerpt from our Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts Series, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans explore the Twitch hack and why a massive hack of this nature is a nightmare for infosec community — and should be a wakeup call as it relates to the primacy of network security.
At its Industry Analyst event, ServiceNow emphasized how the recent Now Platform Rome release provides the vast array of innovations needed to enable organizations to meet the workforce and workflow challenges of the hybrid work era. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the ServiceNow Now Platform is ready to power evolving business models, improve employee satisfaction, advance organization-wide automation, and scale application development, providing key differentiation for ServiceNow against formidable rivals.
Futurum senior analyst Olivier Blanchard takes a look at Apple’s latest filing in the Epic Games vs. Apple legal battle, in which Apple was ordered to allow developers to point consumers to alternate forms of payment outside of its App store. In this overview, Blanchard explains why the next phases of the appeal process could be critical to the future of ecommerce platforms, including Google Play and Amazon, as well as the U.S. retail ecosystem as a whole.
Futurum Research’s principal analyst Daniel Newman covers Cambridge Quantum’s release of the first Quantum Natural Language Processing toolkit and library. The toolkit, called lambeq, is the world’s first software toolkit for QNLP that can convert sentences into a quantum circuit, which will open the doors for QNLP developers for unlimited possibilities.
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains why Cloudflare’s legal victory in federal court last week is important to copyright infringement case law in the United States. He also explores why upholding the 1998 DMCA’s framework of liability and indemnity for companies that deliver internet services is more important than ever, as global regulatory forces begin to shift around existing IP and antitrust law.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including Investor Days from both Marvell and IBM, Tesla moves their HQ to Austin, and more topics you won't want to miss.
In this latest episode of Futurum’s The 5G Factor webcast series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover the latest news and trends in the 5G ecosystem. This week’s episode includes coverage of Ericsson’s move to power 5G cloud gaming, Vodafone’s NB-IoT deal, IBM’s Global Business Services unit’s deals with Telefonica and DISH, and Nokia’s move to thwart DDoS attacks at the silicon level.
Amazon held its annual Devices and Services event where the ecommerce giant unveiled several new devices, features, and smart home products designed to help improve customers’ lives. Headlined by its news Amazon Astro Robot, the event further revealed Amazon's device strategy.
Hansen’s Create-Deliver-Engage (CDE) suite is a set of software applications that aims to fulfill operator digital transformation objectives through tailored applications that are delivered through the Hansen Cloud. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Hansen’s CDE proposition provides the catalog-driven portfolio range and flexibility across the converged billing, CPQ, order management, and provisioning product domains to assure suite-wide innovation and first-tier influence in driving CSP digital transformation.
NEC and Netcracker unveiled an integrated multi-vendor solution with ADVA and Juniper that targets packet optical automation and the streamlining of 5G transport. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the alliance bolsters NEC’s strong hand as lead integrator for Open RAN projects across broader Open 5G network builds, enhances Netcrackers’ Network Domain Orchestration credentials, and augments the 5G ecosystem prospects of ADVA and Juniper.
Qualcomm has partnered with SSW to complete a strategic deal to acquire Arriver from within the Veoneer portfolio while selling other assets.
Futurum Research lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers VMware’s VMworld 2021 announcements including an overview of Zero Trust architecture-based security innovations, VMware’s Carbon Black cloud offering designed to target ransomware, a disaster recovery as a service solution, and a solution that is designed to afford protection for the hybrid workplace that is our new reality.

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