Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Shelly Kramer cover Amazon Career Day, a massive recruiting event designed to offer job opportunities, career coaching and mentoring, and coding training to both current employees and new job seekers. In what the company bills as the largest recruiting event ever, the company seeks to fill some 40K corporate and tech jobs at some 220+ locations throughout the U.S. and an additional 15K plus positions worldwide. More information on the September 15th event, including how to participate, is provided.
Biden Administration Appeals to Big Tech to Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the focus by the Biden Administration over the last few months and the meetings on Capitol Hill last week to address recent security breaches. With Big Tech being summoned to engage with the administration against a backdrop of cyberattacks and ransomware incidents becoming more high profile and frequent, a coordinated government and private sector response is becoming increasingly called for by a bi-partisan coalition of lawmakers.
Zoom Crosses the Billion Dollar Quarter Mark in its 2022 FY Q2
Zoom (ZM) reported its fiscal Q2 2022 earnings after the bell on Monday, beating analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom line.
Boingo Wireless and AWS Expand Partnership Benefitting Major Airports and Stadiums
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by Boingo Wireless and AWS to expand their partnership bringing managed network services and the power of cloud computing together for enterprise venue customers.
AT&T and University of Tennessee Partner to Bring 5G Testbed to Knoxville Campus
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by AT&T and University of Tennessee on their partnership to build a 5G testbed to its Knoxville campus testing the expansion of mmWave 5G to rural areas. This partnership will afford students expanded learning opportunities and the ability to experiment and learn in situations that would otherwise be cost prohibitive or impossible due to location. UT joins Texas A&M, the University of Connecticut and the University of Missouri who likewise have partnerships with AT&T, although this partnership between AT&T and UT is primarily focused on mmWave and MEC applications.
Mavenir Acquires Telestax to Expand 5G Monetization Opportunities through CPaaS Tech
Mavenir buys Telestax to bolster Mavenir Engage, Mavenir’s omnichannel messaging monetization and customer engagement offering through Telestax CPaaS capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Telestax acquisition bolsters Mavenir’s portfolio in the 5G and API enablement realms as well as enable Mavenir to swiftly attain differentiation in the heavily crowded CPaaS market segment through 5G/mobile portfolio differentiators.
Dell Technologies Posts Record Q2 and Strong First Half Revenue and Profitability
Dell Technologies reported 2nd quarter results for fiscal 2022 after the market close on August 26, 2021, delivering both record revenue and profitability. Futurum’s Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens discuss the strong financial performance.
Talent Shortages Are Magnifying The Need For Improving Employee Experience
What do you do when you run out of talent? There’s a problem now being felt especially in the tech industry, where a lack of skilled IT workers — especially in cloud field — could cause digital transformation to stall in its tracks.
Splunk Q2 Highlights Progress in its Cloud Transformation
Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provide their take on Splunk’s Q2 earnings announcement. The company is shuffling the executive deck, making strategic investments to bolster its security portfolio and also transition to a recurring revenue based on workload pricing, rather than data ingestion and seems to be executing on all fronts given the strong numbers for Q2.
GM and AT&T Partner to Bring 5G Connectivity to Certain GM Vehicles by 2024
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by GM and AT&T on their partnership to bring 5G cellular connectivity to certain GM models by 2024 and the continuing moves by other players in the industry as a whole toward the democratization of the connected car experience for consumers.
