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How are companies using edge computing and IoT to support their digital transformation efforts? The following are just a few real-world examples.
Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard discusses Gogo’s plan to bring 5G connectivity to air travel, scheduled for 2022. The promise of faster internet and more bandwidth in flight opens up a solid opportunity for Gogo to reframe the value of in-flight connectivity.
In this episode of Future of Work Talk and the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Shameem Smillie, the Director of Global Contact Center Solutions at Mitel for a conversation around connection, personalized customer experiences, and what ‘meaningful connections’ mean in a digital world, what the future of work looks like in post-pandemic times — and some practical ways businesses can think about strengthening their communication skills.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman tackle the thorny topic of cybersecurity and the fact that security breaches are frequent, inevitable, expensive, and risky. Security has been a foundational layer within IT since the beginning of time, but it’s clear that it’s not working. There are many factors that contribute to this, and there are some nascent technology solutions, like Confidential Computing, that we think are going to play an important role in the not too distant future. This is one of a series of conversations we’ll have on this topic, and we’ve got a soon-to-publish research paper on the topic of Confidential Computing that you won’t want to miss.
The $100 billion high speed broadband bill reintroduced by Rep James Clyburn is aimed at closing the digital divide. This is both timely and significant, as the FCC estimates at least 21 million Americans currently may not have access to high speed internet, including as many as 1 in 4 rural households and 1 in 3 households on tribal lands. This puts students and workers in those areas at a severe disadvantage through no fault of their own. That is the digital divide that H.R.1783 aims to correct over the next five years.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech new stories that made headlines this week including earnings reports from Oracle and Cloudera, announcements from IBM and AWS, an update from Honeywell and a recap of HPE GreenLake Day.
The SAP Capgemini deal boosts SAP’s contingent workforce management proposition, expanding awareness of SAP Fieldglass. Futurum’s Ron Westfall covers the contingent workforce management market segment, what’s ahead, and how this move improves SAP’s competitive position to directly challenge its major workforce rivals by meeting the burgeoning demands of major clients, such as Capgemini. With this win, SAP fortifies its competitive standing in fulfilling the burgeoning distributed workforce demands of workforce, especially including unique contingent workforce requirements.
NVIDIA’s fourth-quarter revenue topped $5 billion for the first time, capping a stellar year for the chipmaker despite the global pandemic and supply-chain constraints.
Microsoft has confirmed a significant security breach of its Exchange email servers and the theft of private emails from businesses, organizations, and government agencies around the world. Futurum’s Fred McClimans breaks down the timeline and what we know so far, and also discusses the behavior issue organizations face regarding on-premises systems.
Cloudera delivered above expectations on revenue and EPS to finish its FY 21 campaign. A strong 10% YoY gain from its same period FY 20.
Oracle delivered at expectations this quarter while seeing strong growth in its Cloud and SaaS offerings driving 3% revenue growth.
Following last year's partnership announcement, NVIDIA and VMware have brought their AI-Ready platform leveraging GPUs, vSphere, and Tanzu.

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