IBM announces the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing. Futurum’s Daniel Newman discusses this new on-chip hardware acceleration. It’s designed to help customers achieve business insights at scale across banking, finance, trading, insurance applications and customer interactions.
5 Steps For Containing App Sprawl In The Workplace
When the pandemic first began, many employers turned to technology to keep employees connected and engaged. Now, in some cases, employees have so many apps they find it hard to be productive. Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes a look at how to manage this very real, and important challenge.
Salesforce Sees 23% Growth Anchored By Strong Platform Growth
The News: Salesforce shares rose as much as 3% in extended trading on Wednesday after the enterprise software maker reported fiscal second-quarter earnings and forward guidance that exceeded analysts’ estimates. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.48 per share, adjusted, vs. 92 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $6.34 billion, vs. $6.24 billion as expected by analysts, according …
GlobalFoundries files for an IPO, But Don’t Rule Intel Out Just Yet
Futurum Research Principal Analyst, Daniel Newman provides his take on news coming out of GlobalFoundries today about the company’s plans to IPO as early as later this year. As the saga continues with chip shortages and bifurcation of global supply chains, the twists and turns of big tech mergers and acquisitions play out in the mainstream media. Today’s news about the GlobalFoundries IPO is just another chapter in the story.
Cisco Wraps Fiscal 2021 With Strong Growth and Optimistic Guidance
Cisco had its strongest quarter of Fiscal 2021 with 8% growth while guiding to what should be a strong FY 2022.
NVIDIA Continues its Record Breaking Run With a Huge Q2 Result
NVIDIA continued its spree of record-breaking quarters in its Fiscal Q2 delivering high growth across the board led by gaming and datacenter.
Salesforce Rolls Out Its Slack-First Customer 360 Strategy
This week Salesforce top executives rolled out their strategy for Slack following the completion of the $27 billion acquisition.
Want To Improve Digital Adoption? Harness The Data
Most companies struggle with software adoption. The application of data and the utilization of a growing category of digital adoption platforms can streamline the deployment of software and successful employee adoption across the enterprise.
Salesforce is Getting into the Streaming Media Business with Salesforce+
Futurum’s Principal analyst Daniel Newman provides his take on Salesforce’s new foray into digital streaming media, Salesforce+. Daniel explores the details of the new platform and what it will mean for the CRM giant.
Microsoft Acquires Peer5 to Address Demand for Live Video Streaming
This week Microsoft acquired a small but strategic company, Peer 5, to address the growing demand for live video streaming in Teams.