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Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Cisco’s Acquisition of Socio Labs Points to the Future of Hybrid Event Management Solutions

Cisco’s acquisition of Socio Labs points to the future of hybrid event management services. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard walks through what this will add to the Cisco Webex offering and why it’s attractive.
Fred McClimans

The DarkSide of Colonial’s Ransomware Payment – It Doesn’t Fix the Problem

Colonial Pipeline rapidly paid ransomware provider DarkSide $5 billion Bitcoin to unlock and restore its IT systems, but this ransomware attack exposed a glaring weakness in critical infrastructure security: the IT/OT issue. Futurum’s Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer covered this attack in a recent episode of their Cybersecurity Shorts series on the Futurum Tech Webcast and why this may have turned back on the pipeline but doesn’t come close to addressing the real security threats we face today.
Fred McClimans

Why the FBI Covertly Fixing Vulnerabilities in Private Servers Related to the Microsoft Exchange Server Attack is a Really Big Deal

Shelly Kramer

Toshiba’s European Operations Hit by Hacker Group DarkSide Cyberattack

In this short vignette from our Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans cover news of yet another DarkSide attack, this time on a subsidiary of Toshiba’s European operations. The company reported that as a result of the attack, they shut down network connections between Europe and Japan to mitigate potential risk as the hack is being investigated, and the scope of the cyberattack is not yet known.
Ron Westfall

Cisco Nexus 400G: Delivering Ecosystem-wide Data Center Networking Innovation

Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall join the Cisco Insider Network podcast to explore and analyze the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Cisco Nexus 400G solution and how it bolsters Cisco’s overall data center networking proposition, particularly in emerging 400G data center environments, as well as Cisco’s competitive edge in meeting customer data center 400G demands.
Shelly Kramer

Ireland’s Health System Victim of Ransomware Attack, Completely Shuts Down

In this vignette from the Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss Ireland’s Health System completely shutting down, falling victim to a ransomware attack.
Shelly Kramer

Biden Administration Signs Executive Order Aimed at Hardening Fed Cybersecurity Defenses

Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the news of the Biden administration’s signing of an Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing a Cybersecurity Safety Review Board, as well as establishing standards for software vendors selling to the Federal government.
Shelly Kramer

Cybersecurity Shorts: Colonial Pipeline Attack, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service, Executive Order Hardening Fed Cybersecurity Defenses

In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss nuances of the Colonial Pipeline attack and how the weakest link can take down the whole system, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service offering, DarkSide’s servers being taken out, the Biden administration’s Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses, and the unusual act of the FBI and its court-ordered mitigation of Microsoft Exchange servers impacted by the recent hack.
Ron Westfall

Moving BSS Cloud Journeys Forward – Transforming the Monetization Engine of Investment

Moving the BSS cloud journey forward is essential for CSPs to create differentiated and innovative offers and capture revenue in a meaningful way in the ultra-competitive 5G era. Futurum’s Ron Westfall uses the recently released research report “The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain” to analyze why a step-wise approach is essential to advancing and fulfilling challenging BSS cloud journeys and how CSPs can best prepare their organizations to meet the challenges and compete successfully long-term across multi-cloud environments.
How Amazon Keeps Outperforming Create New Businesses and Put Tens of Billions of Dollars Into Them
Daniel Newman

How Amazon Keeps Outperforming: Create New Businesses and Put Tens of Billions of Dollars Into Them

Amazon continues to outperform, with a range of new segments, most recently, Scout, Pharmacy and Wardrobe.
Daniel Newman

IBM Think 2021 Zeros in on AI, Hybrid Cloud and Ecosystem Growth

This year's IBM Think 2021 event focused on artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud and also on ecosystem growth. Overall, I believe IBM effectively utilized Think 2021 to clearly articulate its Hybrid Cloud and AI strategy, along with the key strategic moves the company is making in ecosystem partnerships, M&A, and portfolio management under Arvind's leadership.
For Its Critics, Amazon Can Never Do Enough
Daniel Newman

For Its Critics, Amazon Can Never Do Enough

The main question where Amazon is concerned is how Amazon serves both investors and the greater good. This year we are likely to find out.
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