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Enhanced Enterprise Security Helps Rising Combat Cyber Threats in the Era of BYOD Workplaces
Clint Wheelock, Chief Research Officer at The Futurum Group, examines the recent announcement by Samsung and Microsoft on the first on-device attestation for enterprise security.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Juniper’s fiscal Q2 2023 financial performance and why the results demonstrate disciplined execution of the company’s strategic vision across the Enterprise, Service Provider, and Cloud markets. The company’s Q2 momentum was directly bolstered by the expansion of its Enterprise business, registering a record quarter as it has become the company’s largest and fastest growing segment for a third consecutive quarter.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess T-Mobile’s Q2 2023 results and why they expect T-Mobile to fulfill its raised 2023 guidance as the company is consistently outperforming its key rivals across the most important mobile network service categories, including financial, technical, and customer attraction and retention. Once again, T-Mobile is showing the entire mobile industry why it is the service provider pacesetter by executing relentlessly on its portfolio development and market vision.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Intel’s fiscal Q2 2023 and why they see Intel executing on its strategy across its portfolio, including advancing its five processes in 4 years on time as well as positive indications around foundry, reinforced by the robust revenue growth registered by IFS. As such, Q2 2023 marked a positive inflection and can be flagged as a potential turning point after several very tough quarters.
New Leadership and Focus on Innovation Continue to Drive Progress for a Highly Diversified Global Business
The Futurum Group analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss share their insights as Honeywell revenue hits $9.15 billion in Q2 and the company raises FY2023 guidance, as the diversified building technologies, performance materials, aerospace, defense, and safety/productivity products vendor released its latest earnings results on July 27. Honeywell’s results show continuing sales progress, especially as challenging pandemic-related global macroeconomic conditions for tech and consumer focused companies are finally beginning to ease up.
Dynamics 3Enterprise and Premium Customers Can Access Copilot Within Their Existing Licenses
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares his insights into Microsoft’s decision to provide Copilot GPT features within the license terms of its Enterprise and Premium versions of the Dynamics 365 family of products, and discusses the benefits and challenges for the company and its customers.
Global File System Vendor Completes First Institutional Funding Round
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Hammerspace’s $56.7 million funding round and what it means for its data orchestration global file system software.
Vendor Highlights Main Types of SaaS Breaches, Provides 14 SaaS Security Recommendations, and 3 Future Predictions
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the release of Valence’s 2023 State of SaaS Security report, and details the best practices for mitigating risk by tightening access procedures, even at the risk of creating more worker friction.
Growing Sophistication of AI Assistants Signals Next-Generation Computing
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Cohere’s launch of Coral, a new AI-based knowledge assistant. Open AI introduced ChatGPT a mere 9 months ago. In that short amount of time, the concept of an AI assistant has evolved and mutated rapidly to a point where the challenges for LLM-based AI assistants are being addressed and enterprise requirements are part of their design. The research note explores what Coral’s debut signals about what is likely to happen next with AI assistants and whether or not we are on the cusp of next-generation computing.
Frontier Model Forum Is a Logical Step to Normalizing GenAI Through Advocacy
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the announcement by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic about the launch of the Frontier Model Forum, which he asserts is a logical step to normalizing Gen AI through advocacy. AI advocates have struggled for several years to coalesce and unify to form a definitive AI industry group. There is a good reason for this – AI is broadly diffused technology and it applies across a massive range of industry sectors and interests. It has taken a disruption moment in the form of generative AI to unify advocacy. The Frontier Model Forum has the potential to solidify AI advocacy. The research note explores the key takeaways and the potential impact of the Frontier Model Forum.
HPE Discover 2023 advances GreenLake offerings, Pure Storage brings more to FlashArray and FlashBlade, MongoDB takes off and what is in with the noise and news around generative AI? Steven Dickens and Camberley Bates dive in on this Infrastructure Matters podcast.
Daniel Newman, CEO and Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Leader at The Futurum Group, share their insights on Microsoft earnings. Microsoft's Q4 earnings showcased the significant impact of AI across its portfolio, with impressive profits and revenues exceeding expectations. While the Azure cloud revenue growth slightly declined, CEO Satya Nadella remains optimistic about sustained high growth, emphasizing the early stages of cloud migration and AI's potential. Microsoft's commitment to AI research and development positions it as a leader in the digital age, with a promising future of innovation and transformation. However, investors closely monitor Azure's performance amid rising interest rates and cost-cutting measures.
