Marvell launches new Atlas and 5nm Alaska chipsets developed to deliver unparalleled data center connectivity capabilities, including PAM4 innovations, key to dramatically improving data workload performance, scalability, and power efficiencies, particularly inside cloud data centers. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s Atlas and Alaska offerings are clearly differentiated and why that are ready to deliver cloud data center connectivity breakthroughs.
Cisco Ups its SD-WAN Game with ThousandEyes Native Integration
Cisco natively integrates its ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence capabilities throughout its SD-WAN portfolio, including the Catalyst 8300/8200 Series Edge Platforms and ISR 4000 Series, improving visibility and experience monitoring capabilities for customers. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores and analyzes how Cisco’s assimilation of ThousandEyes technology expands Cisco’s influence in driving SD-WAN expansion across cloud, edge, and SaaS environments and why SD-WAN rivals need to counter Cisco’s move.
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Rains on Snowflake’s Cloud Data Platform Parade
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse delivers the full spectrum of capabilities that organizations require to advance their cloud data warehouse journey without compromise. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes and examines why the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is clearly differentiated in relation to the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform solution, delivering a competitive edge across the key evaluation criteria areas of cost governance, real-time data warehouse workload agility, data integrity, and ML integration.
COMPUTEX 2021: AMD Shines with New Portfolio-wide Innovations
AMD CEO Lisa Su shrewdly leveraged the Computex Keynote to promote AMD’s latest portfolio-wide innovations and capabilities including especially its first application of 3D chiplet technology. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how AMD’s foray into 3D chiplet technology is key to advancing ecosystem-wide semiconductor development and how its new portfolio solutions strengthen AMD’s ability to fulfill customer demands across the auto, mobile, gaming, PC, and data center server market segments.
Marvell Takes Data Center Flash Storage to the Next Level with Bravera SC5 SSD Controller Debut
Marvell launches its new Bravera SC5 controller family aimed at delivering Cloud SSD agility with any NAND vendor, in support of any NAND type, and across any form factor that fulfill the emerging scalability, performance, architectural flexibility, security, and data protection demands of the storage server and compute server data center market segments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how the new Marvell Bravera SC5 solution delivers the PCIe 5.0 & NVMe 1.4b SSD Controller, 16Ch ES.1 Form Factor, flexible usage model, and Elastic SLA Enforcer capabilities that are key to driving data center flash storage innovation across the demanding cloud SSD controller space.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Exercises the Right to Bear Arm
Oracle unveiled its first Arm-based compute offering OCI Ampere A1 Compute, aiming to guide the porting of open source projects to Arm technology for price-performance and efficiency gains. Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why the Arm architecture is gaining a broader presence across data center server processor architectures, how OCI attains competitive differentiation through the new platform, and why OCI’s main rivals need to counter the move.
Nokia Smartens Up Mobile Site Design with Digital Twin Technology
Nokia showcases how application of digital twin technology, in combination with AI/ML engines, can streamlines 5G site deployments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explore how Nokia’s application of digital twin technology to intelligent site engineering counters the digital twinning moves of key mobile networking rivals Huawei and Ericsson as well as a potential alliance with NVIDIA can further strengthen its mobile and digital twin ecosystem credentials.
Amdocs Burnishes Cloud Credentials with Sourced Group Acquisition
Amdocs acquires Sourced Group for its cloud migration platform and expertise, burnishing its overall cloud native portfolio. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how the acquisition boosts Amdocs’s cloud native products and cloud support proposition across the telecommunications, media, and financial services verticals as well as market presence in the Asia-Pacific, North America, and Oceania regions, especially in supporting multi-cloud migration strategies.
AWS and Ericsson Extend Partnership to Support CSPs on Their Journey to Cloud BSS
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer delve into the expansion of the AWS and Ericsson alliance with AWS certifying Ericsson Telecom BSS for AWS. We discussed the industry-wide impact of the AWS announcement including the operational and business benefits CSPs gain from the cloud native Ericsson Telecom BSS portfolio and the topmost considerations CSPs need to understand in advancing their cloud journeys.
Juniper Gets More SASE
Juniper debuts its Security Cloud Director, the cloud-based portal developed to aid customers in migrating securely to a SASE architecture by protecting users, applications, and infrastructure amidst cloud journeys and organization-wide transformation. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the capabilities and competitive benefits of the Juniper Security Director Cloud solution and how it bolsters Juniper’s overall Connected Security strategy, especially in emerging SASE frameworks, as well as Juniper’s near-term competitive positioning.