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Samsung’s AppStack launch is a boon to SMBs seeking to embrace digital transformation. Solutions range from G Suite’s collaboration platform, to CRMs, time tracking, design, POS offerings, and more. AppStack is billed as a one stop, easy-to-manage, no-risk, lower cost technology solution and is an attractive offering. Now, comes the hard part — getting consumer attention and driving trial.
On this special episode of The Six Five - Insiders Edition, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Lattice CEO Jim Anderson to discuss Lattice, the impactful changes that have been made at the company in the last few years, and how they are leading to a smarter future.
In an effort to help residents of Colorado and California, Google Maps will now track the U.S. wildfires by the hour. Google search users will not only pull up news results, but the fire tracking maps will also be displayed.
Amazon is adding an expanded hub and spoke model that is enabling more job creation in markets outside the company's headquarters.
AppDynamics significantly bolsters its ability to make further inroads into the larger enterprise and SMB market segments of the global APM market with the SAP Peak launch. The offering enables AppDynamics and parent company Cisco to quickly differentiate and steal sales and marketing thunder from rivals in fulfilling the latest and most pressing SAP monitoring demands of enterprises and businesses. SAP Peak augments both companies’ Central Nervous System vision of driving the AIOps journey for business while also advancing Cisco’s strategic goal of developing an applications-driven portfolio that expands its software and services revenue streams.
AWS announced last week the general availability of Amazon Braket, its new quantum computing tool. Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that Amazon markets as a service that will spur innovation across the entire quantum community, allowing developers, researchers, and scientists to experiment with computers from quantum hardware providers, while only paying for compute services used. With companies like Fidelity, VW and University of Waterloo already using the tool, Braket is now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.
On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Karthik Rau, Vice President, Observability at Splunk, to discuss observability and application monitoring, COVID-19, and how IT departments are dealing with the recent changes brought about by the pandemic.
SpaceX successfully launched its second Starlink satellite mission this month. In addition to beefing up the number of satellites in its broadband internet constellation and continuing its satellite rideshare efforts, SpaceX also broke a record for using the same booster for the sixth time.
The REvil ransomware cyber gang claims to have attacked Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniel’s and other popular liquor brands. The sophisticated ransomware gang claims to be holding 1TB of Brown-Forman corporate data for ransom, including employee information, pledging to leak the data in batches if the company does not respond to its demands. Brown-Forman has released few details about the attack, and claims “There are no active negotiations.”
NVIDIA has continued its stellar momentum which has sent its stock to nearly $500 a share on the back of explosive AI growth.
The MEF’s prime objective of defining SASE instantly strengthens SASE’s prospects in quickly becoming a widely accepted, game-changing service by avoiding the pitfalls that have stymied other promising technologies and services due in good part to their lack of robust standards backing. The establishment of SASE standards are essential to providing certification testing, ensuring interoperability across the digital ecosystem and enabling service providers to avoid or minimize reliance on expensive proprietary solutions.
Every year, I make my predictions for 10 of the biggest trends in digital transformation. With COVID-19, we saw massive change in a short period of time. In this post we look back at the predictions for 2020, and how the pandemic impacted the adoption of new tech and digital trends.

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