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HPE GreenLake Meets Growing Ecosystem Demand for Cloud Data Protection and Unified Analytics

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HPE introduces new cloud services, such as HPE GreenLake for analytics and HPE GreenLake for data protection, to augment the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new cloud service offerings strengthen HPE GreenLake’s competitive position across the hybrid cloud and public cloud market segments as well as heightens ecosystem awareness of the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework that is designed specifically to de-risk organization cloud journeys.

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Strike and Twitter Partner Up to Change Finance — Legacy Players Better Buckle Up

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Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement this week of the partnership between remittance network provider Strike and Twitter. As the world of finance becomes increasingly disrupted by new entrants and cloud native players, the landscape just changed dramatically as a social network with over 300 million global users partners with an innovative fintech to disrupt the old guard of the likes of Visa, PayPal, Mastercard and Western Union.

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Oracle Exadata X9M Shellacs AWS and Azure with Latency, Throughput, and Cost Breakthroughs

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Oracle launches Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M swiftly providing the OLTP I/O latency and analytics throughput advantages that vastly eclipse both the public cloud AWS RDS and Azure SQL offerings. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M shellacs the public cloud AWS and Azure offerings, let alone any on-premises options, across key latency, IOPS, throughput, and cost metrics that give Oracle a virtually insurmountable competitive edge.

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Open Mainframe Goes from Strength to Strength

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Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the Open Mainframe Summit event taking place this week and the announcements the Linux Foundation collaborative project focused on the mainframe is making as part of the conference. As the mainframe transforms to fit within the hybrid landscape, open source represents a key component in the platform continuing its place in mission critical computing environments.