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Qualcomm, AMD, and Gigabyte break the PetaOperations per second barrier for AI inference — which is a lot of AI muscle. With AI increasingly becoming the driving force behind the next generation of consumer experiences, this is exciting news.
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) is better positioned now to power ecosystem-wide adoption of self-driving cloud DW platforms through the addition of new capabilities. Oracle ADW will compel rivals to counter Oracle with their own autonomous DW portfolio developments, particularly around offering post-SQL cloud DW capabilities that fulfill the ease of use and minimal administration demands of organization of all sizes. As such, Oracle can drive differentiation of its ADW portfolio by providing a self-service, automated, and SaaS-enabled DW experience that puts swifter, more contextual actionable insights within the reach of organizations of all sizes.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo about the future of the subscription economy and how Zuora enables businesses to make the shift to a subscription model business.
As a result of recent cybersecurity breaches, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been announced. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Sen. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) are working on legislation that will require companies to notify the federal government in the event of a security breach. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the need for the bill, especially in light of the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange Server hacks, the extent of the damage from which will remain unknown for some time. This proposed legislation makes sense — hopefully, this time around it will make it into law.
Salesforce.com once again announced quarterly results that surpassed expectations, producing revenue growth to keep the company on pace with CEO Marc Benioff’s ambitious goal of $35 billion by 2024.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Shelly Kramer talk about the new Intel campaign featuring the ‘I’m a Mac’ Justin Long and how Intel’s riposte to Apple’s November campaign announcing its M1 processor does a great job showcasing the big differences in user experience between PCs and Macs. It was definitely a ‘Well played, Intel’ moment.
AWS has announced general availability of EC2 X2gd instances of its cloud computing offering. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the importance of this new offering and how it plays into the growing demand for memory-intensive workloads, such as real-time data analytics. In short, it means very good things for AWS customers. It increases the performance and cuts the cost of cloud computing for workloads such as in-memory databases, relational databases, and our favorite, real-time data analytics. This, coupled with AWS’s scalable, pay-as-you-go consumption model, is exactly what is needed today.
Intel has rolled out a new campaign targeting Apple's M1 deficiencies using long time Apple spokesman Justin Long.
Clearfield’s upgraded Clearview Blue Cassette proposition will oblige key fiber management rivals, Commscope and Corning, to allocate increased portfolio development and marketing resources to counter the new 48-port option. Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the update and the impact on Clearfield’s fiber management portfolio, along with the challenges he anticipates ahead.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, the topic is all about security, and specifically focused on the role hardware plays in the enterprise security journey. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer is joined by Dell Technologies’ Rick Martinez and John Boyle for an insightful discussion centered on the four key insights we uncovered as a result of a recent research study, as well as a look at supply chain and how that’s been impacted in the last year, what executives can do to prepare their businesses for the current threat landscape, as well as looking to the future.
IBM has been aggressively pursuing its hybrid cloud story and has gone GA with its Cloud Satellite offering adding to its hybrid arsenal.
While the EU has been actively pursuing Amazon for a series of anti-trust breaches, the competition czars are struggling to prove its case.

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