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Oracle Cloud Lift Services Provides Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customers a New Workload Lift

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Oracle Cloud Lift Services addresses growing customer demand to alleviate the complexity and costs of workload migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses the benefits of the new program in emerging applications areas such as GPU-based Kubernetes management and why customers and prospects need to onboard onto Oracle Cloud Lift Services

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Ericsson Open Lab: Engaging with the Mobile Ecosystem to Boost 5G Virtualized RAN Adoption

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Ericsson Open Lab addresses expanding 5G ecosystem demand for collaboration in advancing virtualized 5G RAN technology adoption. Futurum’s Ron Westfall takes a look at Ericsson Open Lab and why it boosts Ericsson’s virtualized 5G RAN credentials across the mobile ecosystem by accelerating interactive collaboration with CSPs and partners, as well as what’s at stake for Ericsson’s key rivals.

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Cisco Eases Multicloud Burdens by Making SD-WAN Cloud Hub Part of Google Cloud

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The new Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud solution enables Cisco to capture more valuable mind share in the fast-growing SD-WAN market segment, bolstering its ability to claim and defend market share leadership in the fast-evolving SD-WAN space. Futurum’s Ron Westfall shares his insights on what Cisco’s chief SD-WAN rivals, VMware, Fortinet, HPE/Silver Peak, Versa, and Juniper/128T will need to address and explore moving forward.

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Ericsson 5G Core Policy Studio — The Network Programmability Tool Key to 5G Innovation

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the launch of Ericsson’s 5G Core Policy Studio, designed to deliver the unified single point of access for all network policies with pre-defined templates for service design meeting the burgeoning CSP demand for comprehensive policy visibility, centralized control and automation for efficient operations, and GUI-driven ease of use needed to accelerate time to revenue. It appears as though Ericsson 5G Core Policy is ready to move the needle in the policy management market realm and that the pressure is on for key policy management rivals.

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Pluribus Networks: Driving Ecosystem-wide Disaggregation, Network Virtualization and Controllerless SDN Fabric Adoption

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores recent announcements from Pluribus Networks. The company is delivering the portfolio innovation and ecosystem influence to accelerate SDN automation and disaggregated networking across DC realms. Pluribus Networks’ portfolio commitment and marketing focus on delivering disaggregation, network virtualization, and controllerless SDN automation across DC environments is a key differentiator. For more on Ron’s insights, be sure and read the article.

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Benu Networks Upgrades BNG: SASE and 5G AGF Additions Bring Cloud-Native Edge to a Carrier Near You

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Benu Networks BNG upgrade reveals a BNF solution with clearly differentiated SASE and WWC capabilities that fulfill new carrier cloud-native edge demands. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explains how carrier demand for secure networks and solutions that deploy across converged networks is burgeoning as work-from-home (WFH), remote learning, and the rapid growth of 5G are escalating network bandwidth demands and introducing new security challenges. Westfall is also bullish on the resultant portfolio differentiation and capabilities for Benu as a result of this upgrade.

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HPE Ezmeral Update: New Products And Partnerships Ready To Power Unified Data Access Across Edge And Cloud Environments

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The new HPE Ezmeral product and partnership updates sharpen HPE’s Kubernetes management platform portfolio and market messaging. Futurum’s Ron Westfall unpacks the nuances of these updates including how the HPE Ezmeral updates target the data scientists, developers, and IT decision makers with the comprehensive orchestrated Kubernetes (K8) management platform required to accelerate application development innovation and scale AI/ML and data-intensive workloads throughout hybrid and multi-cloud environments. What’s ahead? Ron believes that it’s time for K8 management platform market pace setters VMware and IBM/Red Hat to heed and specifically counter the burgeoning HPE Ezmeral proposition.

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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse: Ready to Power More Self-Driving Cloud Data Warehouse Adoption

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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) is better positioned now to power ecosystem-wide adoption of self-driving cloud DW platforms through the addition of new capabilities. Oracle ADW will compel rivals to counter Oracle with their own autonomous DW portfolio developments, particularly around offering post-SQL cloud DW capabilities that fulfill the ease of use and minimal administration demands of organization of all sizes.