In Part One of this three-part series, Futurum senior analyst Olivier Blanchard highlights Qualcomm’s latest research milestones in six critical areas: 5G mmWave, wide-area 5G, C-V2X sidelink, Industry 4.0, extended reality (XR), and green networks. Blanchard’s overview explains how these over-the-air (OTA) test networks, prototypes, and system simulations, will help advance 5G research and product development across a breadth of industries. These breakthrough snapshots are especially timely in the wake of the expansive technology roadmap outlined by Qualcomm during its Investor Day 2021 presentations just a few days ago and help shed more light on where Qualcomm is with regard to critical R&D milestones.
FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres Ready to Power ISV Fulfillment of Container-driven Software Modernization Journey
Organizations are accelerating the containerization and modernization of their hybrid clouds to attain the deep insights, expanded agility through portability, pre-enabled security, high availability, and open platform capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres proposition fulfills the portability, security, and speed requirements critical to enabling ISVs to take advantage of the design once, deploy many implementation principles that fulfills their customer’s containerization and multi-cloud requirements with sizable cost savings.
Groq Turbocharges COVID Drug Discovery at Argonne National Laboratory
Groq demonstrates its technology enabled the acceleration of compute timelines from days to seconds at Argonne National Laboratory in its COVID drug discovery initiative. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Groq potentially gains a significant sales and marketing boost from its Argonne National Laboratory collaboration, especially in demonstrating the Groq solutions performance advantage over established GPU products as well as potentially fulfilling compute acceleration for an expanding array of AI and machine learning use cases and missions.
Lucid Stock Soars Eclipsing Auto Giants GM and Ford
Lucid Group stock soared to new heights recently, closing out the day with a market cap higher than General Motors and Ford. Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer explores what this means for the future of EV production and the auto industry as a whole.
Betacom’s 5G as a Service Offering is Built on Valuable Lessons from Early Private Wireless Network Adopters
Futurum analyst Ron Westfall evaluates Betacom’s 5G as a Service offering and private wireless network portfolio, providing comprehensive plan, design, build, and operate capabilities and the competitive advantage they might well provide in driving broader adoption across industry verticals.
SAP’s Tech Education Focus is Front and Center at SAP TechEd Aimed at Closing the Skills Gap
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the newest application and solution announcements to come out of SAP’s TechEd Conference offering insight into how these tools can drive continuous learning initiatives and close the skills gap.
Qualcomm and BMW Collaborate on Automated Driving Technology
Qualcomm has announced a collaboration with BMW to bring its Snapdragon Ride Platform to BMW’s next generation of ADAS and automated driving platforms. Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores what this news means for Qualcomm’s ambitions in the automotive space.
IBM Z OMEGAMON Designed to Further Connect Mainframe to the Hybrid Cloud
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest release of the venerable OMEGAMON suite from IBM. As clients look increasingly to move to an AIOps driven mindset, IBM is riding this wave with the IBM Z OMEGAMON suite and connecting the data outputs to industry standard offerings such as Elastic and Grafana.
Part Three of Series: More on RFFE and the Role it Plays in Qualcomm’s 5G Roadmap
In Part Three of his series on RFFE (RF Front End), Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard dives into how chipmaker giant Qualcomm is leveraging its global leadership in wireless innovation and recent investments in RF to significantly grow its modem-to-antenna solutions footprint not only in mobile handsets, but also expand that slice of its business into high growth adjacent segments like Automotive, the IoT, and the IIoT. Tying the series to Qualcomm’s 2021 Investor Day provides critical insights into RFFE’s growing importance to Qualcomm’s technology portfolio and business momentum.
UiPath Releases Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report
Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer weighs in on UiPath’s newly released inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance Report. As more organizations up the ante on their ESG initiatives, real accountability has been missing. UiPath appears to be ready to set an example and change that — and that’s great to see.