Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman breaks down Tableau’s recent pledge to train 10 million people in order to close the data literacy gap, diving into the specifics of the pledge and offering insight on what this means for the future of work.
Red Hat Goes All in on Multi Cloud and Hybrid Innovation with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As clients look increasingly to deploy Linux based workloads in hybrid multi cloud deployment models, Red Hat is focused on improving manageability, security, and support for the shift to container.
NVIDIA GTC 2021: Cloudera and NVIDIA Expand Partnership, Look to RAPIDly Advance Data Scientist Adoption of GPUs
Cloudera and NVIDIA are now offering RAPIDS Edition ML Runtimes to make it simpler for data scientists to use Cloudera Machine Learning to work with NVIDIA GPUs, bypassing the impediments of needing to configure CUDA drivers and library dependencies. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into how the augmented Cloudera NVIDIA alliance could expand data science community adoption of running more data science pipelines on NVIDIA GPU infrastructure to improve their data-driven operations over CPU implementations, particularly for massive cloud data workload applications and scaling out for large processes.
Mitel and RingCentral Announce New Strategic Partnership Which Could Have Lasting Impact on UCaaS Market
Mitel, a global leader in business communications, and RingCentral, a cloud communication solutions provider, announced a strategic partnership. Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman offers insight into what this means for the UCaaS market.
Amazon Air and U.S. Airlines Become Founding Members of New Aviators Group Committed to Driving Investment in Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers news out of COP26 climate talks focused on reduction of global emissions caused by air travel and the acceleration of investment in the development of sustainable aviation fuels. To that end, the announcement of the formation of the new Aviators Group by founding members Amazon Air and major U.S. airlines JetBlue, United Airlines, and Alaska Airlines committed to driving investment in and innovation around sustainable aviation fuels is very good news.
Stablecoin Regulation Is Coming — Here is Why That Matters
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard breaks down the Biden Administration’s request to Congress to provide a new regulatory framework for stablecoins. Along with a synopsis of what sets stablecoins apart from other types of cryptocurrencies, Blanchard sheds light on the administration’s working group report on stablecoins, which makes the case for why regulation is needed for this fast-growing segment of the digital asset space, and provides analysis on how this may or may not play into the broader effort to regulate Big Tech.
Oracle Rolls Out New Analytics Capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM and ERP
Last week Oracle announced new analytics capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman dives into this announcement and what that means for the company going forward.
MWC LA 2021: Radisys Jumpstarts the Release 16 5G New Radio Bandwagon
Radisys launched Release 16 5G New Radio software that delivers the capabilities needed to spur CSP and enterprise support of 5G use cases across multiple industry verticals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Radisys is capitalizing on the enhanced R16 features, such as MU-MIMO, DSS, beamforming, key to spurring Open RAN adoption and ecosystem-wide 5G innovation.
Juniper Support Insights Assures Comprehensive AI-driven Junos Portfolio Vision and Message
Juniper extends AI-powered support to entire Junos portfolio to streamline operator efficiencies and augment end user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Support Insight offering spotlights the capabilities of its AI assets and provides more cohesion across Juniper’s portfolio-wide marketing outreach including delivering the benefits of Experience-First Networking.
Microsoft’s Mesh for Teams is Microsoft’s Nod to the Metaverse
The metaverse is clearly in the news of late, and it appears to be on pace to be one of the biggest trends of 2022. Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement out of Microsoft’s Ignite event of the launch of its Mesh for Teams, a new offering intended to blend the digital and physical worlds, expected to roll out to users in 2022, and offering insight on what this means for the future of the metaverse in the workplace.