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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.
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.
Amazon continues to outperform, with a range of new segments, most recently, Scout, Pharmacy and Wardrobe.
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.
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.
Vodafone and Qualcomm are collaborating to advance Open RAN MaMIMO RU and DU Platform assimilation to spur Open RAN deployment and adoption. Futurum’s Ron Westfall surveys the ecosystem implications of the Vodafone and Qualcomm collaboration and why it strengthens the Open RAN cause, particularly in providing the blueprint needed to spur supplier diversification, hasten innovation, and lay the foundation for comprehensive Open 5G networking.
Recent news has broken that Qualcomm was in big trouble based upon Apple planning to build its own 5G modem, but the headlines are misleading
Plus, formerly Plus AI has announced its intention to go public via Spac merger with Hennessy Capital Investment Corp in a $3.3 Billion deal.
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by Automation Anywhere of early access to its Google Cloud-powered Automation 360 platform for Google Cloud customers. Automation 360 is the first cloud robotic process automation (RPA) solution resulting from the company’s partnership with Google Cloud, with a goal of enabling making automation easier for organizations to embrace and adopt.
