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On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including the latest earnings from Poly, announcements from IBM Think 2021 and Lattice Semiconductor's Analyst Day, and more.
Juniper debuts its Security Cloud Director, the cloud-based portal developed to aid customers in migrating securely to a SASE architecture by protecting users, applications, and infrastructure amidst cloud journeys and organization-wide transformation. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Juniper Security Director Cloud solution and how it bolsters Juniper’s overall Connected Security strategy, especially in emerging SASE frameworks, as well as Juniper’s near-term competitive positioning.
Cisco’s acquisition of Socio Labs points to the future of hybrid event management services. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard walks through what this will add to the Cisco Webex offering and why it’s attractive.
Colonial Pipeline rapidly paid ransomware provider DarkSide $5 billion Bitcoin to unlock and restore its IT systems, but this ransomware attack exposed a glaring weakness in critical infrastructure security: the IT/OT issue. Futurum’s Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer covered this attack in a recent episode of their Cybersecurity Shorts series on the Futurum Tech Webcast and why this may have turned back on the pipeline but doesn’t come close to addressing the real security threats we face today.
In this short vignette from our Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans cover news of yet another DarkSide attack, this time on a subsidiary of Toshiba’s European operations. The company reported that as a result of the attack, they shut down network connections between Europe and Japan to mitigate potential risk as the hack is being investigated, and the scope of the cyberattack is not yet known.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall join the Cisco Insider Network podcast to explore and analyze the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Cisco Nexus 400G solution and how it bolsters Cisco’s overall data center networking proposition, particularly in emerging 400G data center environments, as well as Cisco’s competitive edge in meeting customer data center 400G demands.
In this vignette from the Cybersecurity Shorts series of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss Ireland’s Health System completely shutting down, falling victim to a ransomware attack.
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the news of the Biden administration’s signing of an Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses by establishing a Cybersecurity Safety Review Board, as well as establishing standards for software vendors selling to the Federal government.
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.
