Futurum’s Daniel Newman explores Amazon’s new offering, Buy with Prime that will expand Prime shopping benefits to other online retailers beyond Amazon.com. Newman offers insight into how this offering will impact retailers and Amazon.
New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences to be Powered by AMD EPYC Processors for VMware Users Running Hybrid Cloud Environments
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines Oracle’s latest plans to offer all-new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences powered by AMD EPYC processors for hybrid cloud users as Oracle expands its use of AMD EPYC CPUs beyond Oracle’s existing E3 and E4 compute instances.
ServiceNow Publishes 2022 Global Impact Report Detailing ESG Progress
Futurum’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer takes a dive into ServiceNow’s 2022 Global Impact Report with insight into the importance of setting and achieving ESG goals for sustainability, responsible business leadership, and company culture.
Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M Raises the Cloud Database Market Stakes
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Oracle Exadata Cloud X9M debut can enable Oracle to defend and upgrade its vast X9M/X8M customer base through OLTP and Analytics performance and scale advances that maintain existing costs as well as create the differentiation needed to compel rivals such as AWS and Azure to take swift heed of Oracle’s latest cloud database portfolio development and marketing moves.
Google’s iFixit Partnership Strengthens the Company’s Sustainability Initiatives and Addresses Customer Needs in the Process
Futurum analyst Michael Diamond explores Google’s new partnership with iFixit and discusses how it ticks boxes on sustainability and working towards a more circular economy, affords the company with some potential to gain marketshare in the smartphone arena, and also helps better serve the needs of customers.
Siemens Opens CATCH, its New R&D Innovation Hub to Accelerate Additive Manufacturing for Industry to Collaborate with Industrial 3D Printer Makers
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how Siemens is growing the market for industrial additive manufacturing by opening CATCH, its latest innovation and collaboration hub, where customers can meet with Siemens experts and 3D printer vendors to brainstorm and find answers to their most pressing additive manufacturing problems.
Qualcomm Powers Five Key Inventions Across Newly Completed 5G NR Release 17
Qualcomm contributes five key inventions, consisting of mmWave expansion, NR-Light, device enhancements, non-terrestrial networks, and topology expansion, to advance 5G ecosystem adoption of the recently completed 3GGP Release 17 specification. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the five inventions strengthen emerging 5G use cases, such as dedicated private networks, wearables, industrial sensors, video surveillance, global asset tracking, satellite communications, and public safety, and reinforces Qualcomm’s reputation for consistently delivering 5G ecosystem-wide innovation.
AT&T Business Makes the Case for Key Managed Services Provider Role across SASE Journeys
Futurum’s senior analyst Ron Westfall explores the value prop that MSPs can bring to organizations strategizing about and planning for their SASE developments, along with the news that AT&T Business is tossing its hat in the ring on the SASE-capable MSP front.
Google Cloud’s Retail Search Tool Geared Toward Helping Eliminate Cart Abandonment
Futurum’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer explores Google Cloud’s announcement of the launch of its new Retail Search, a tool designed to help ecommerce retailers address and mitigate cart abandonment and level up on the customer experience front. In combination with Google Cloud’s other retail tools, this is a smart move for Google Cloud as it continues to try and gain traction in the cloud wars.
Google Offices and Data Centers in the U.S. Share $9.5B in New Spending in 2022 as Google Expands Services and Pushes to Reach Carbon-Free Energy Usage Goals by 2030
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at Google’s plan to spend $9.5B in 2022 to improve Google offices and data centers even as many employees still work from home, and to deploy critical facilities upgrades aimed at helping Google reach its corporate carbon-free energy use goals by 2030.