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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.
The Biden administration’s tightening of restrictions on 5G related technology sales to Huawei could be seen as a move toward a more uniform application of prohibitions, rather than the prior administration’s more inconsistent application and management of restrictions against Huawei. For technology companies, there are pros and cons to this, which are covered here by Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard, along with what is likely ahead.
Microsoft’s security woes as it relates to the Exchange Server hack and other, subsequent hacking campaigns that have been launched make it a tough time and what I’m sure are a lot of sleepless nights for both the company, as well as CISOs and their security teams the world over. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at where we are now, the new threats that are appearing and multiplying at a rapid pace, and rumors of a potential insider leak that may have been malicious and/or part of a separate security breach.
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.
