Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the general availability of Apace Iceberg on Cloudera Data Platform advances the ecosystem-wide mission of expanding openness for data lakehouses while handling data anywhere across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as addresses increasing enterprise demand for improving time to value for their data science teams while operating at the speed of innovation while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Juniper Expands Cloud Metro Portfolio to Power Sustainable Business Growth
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Juniper’s expanded Cloud Metro proposition, including new capabilities such as Paragon Automation as a Service and new ACX7000 product enhancements, is well-positioned to power CSP sustainable business growth objectives including the acceleration of 5G SA network builds, more intelligent flexible edge cloud hosting, and service experience innovation.
NVIDIA, Siemens Partner to Target the Industrial Metaverse
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how NVIDIA and Siemens are partnering to develop and enable an industrial metaverse by connecting NVIDIA Omniverse with Siemens Xcelerator platform to empower customers with new industrial metaverse opportunities and capabilities.
Snowflake’s Unistore: The CNN+ of Transactional Application Workloads
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Snowflake’s recent Unistore launch represents a notable divergence from the company’s portfolio development strategy of using a single, specialized platform to address the evolving data warehousing and analytics demands of customers, emulating the converged database portfolio development strategies of rivals such as Oracle who already offer market-proven transactional and analytical capabilities.
Data & AI Summit 2022 Recap: Databricks Continues Commitment to Open Source Powered Innovation
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens covers the announcements made at the Data & AI Summit 2022 this week in San Francisco, organized by Databricks. As organizations look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, many are turning to open source approaches such as Lakehouse and Spark, and Databricks appears to be well-positioned to see strong growth in the months ahead.
Qualcomm Likely to Supply Apple in 2023 and Quite Possibly Beyond
The news that Qualcomm is likely to continue to supply Apple apparently caught the market by surprise, sending the company’s stock up despite a largely negative day for equities. Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes a look at the partnership and what we can expect coming out of this announcement for both companies.
RISC-V International Adds Four ISA Chip Specification Approvals
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines the addition by RISC-V International of four ISA chip specification approvals, bringing even broader tools for chip designers to improve and speed their latest chip designs.
The New Apple MacBook Air is More Powerful with its M2 Chip Upgrade
Futurum analyst Michael Diamond looks at Apple’s newest MacBook Air, which includes its newest generation, more powerful M2 processor. Will it be enough to continue to attract and interest Apple’s customer base, even in an anemic economy?
HPE Discover 2022 News: HPE Deepens Relationships with Red Hat and SUSE
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of HPE Discover about the deepening relationships with Red Hat and SUSE.
HPE Discover 2022: HPE Amperes Up New ProLiant RL300 Gen11 Servers
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE’s new ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server offering aligns with the cloud-native applications development priorities of service providers and digital-first enterprises as well as how using Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors can boost performance for cloud workloads such as web servers, caching, databases, media transcoding, and AI and advance power efficiency metrics that help fulfill organization-wide sustainability goals.