Futurum’s Ron Westfall walks us through the Oracle Database 21c debut, which further differentiates the company’s converged database proposition, especially in key emerging technology areas such as Immutable Blockchain Tables and AutoML for In-Database ML. The new offering strengthens Oracle’s ability to bolster developer productivity in cultivating new applications and curating applications to fulfill top-priority business objectives.
Cisco Catalyst Portfolio Expansion: New Products Bring 5G and SASE to the WAN Edge
Cisco’s new Catalyst products, aimed at seeding 5G and SASE across the WAN edge, bolster its competitive prospects in the SD-WAN/SASE market segment and the WAN Edge realm against formidable foes such as VMware, Fortinet, Versa, HPE, and Juniper. The move also boosts industry awareness of the company’s pivotal role in accelerating 5G adoption across enterprise environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall covers why that’s a smart, strategic move.
Google Down Under: Hitting Stronger Regulatory Headwinds
Google is the colossus in the worldwide search engine market segment and possesses the market might to stare down regulators in places like Australia. Rivals, such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo, now have a distinct opportunity to take advantage of Google’s ongoing tilt Down Under to elevate market awareness, including especially among government decision makers, that they are compelling alternatives to Google.
Intel and Red Hat Aim to Streamline 5G Deployment and Adoption Process
The extension of the Intel-Red Hat alliance will ease the pain and suffering of service providers as well as enterprises in accelerating their adoption of cloud-native capabilities to rapidly boost the agility and flexibility of 5G implementation journeys. Intel and Red Hat have the portfolios and deployment expertise to reduce the complexity of 5G deployments, particularly in areas such as assuring interworking of open source Open RAN and 5GC technologies in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Intel Channels Unity for Intel Partner Alliance Debut
The new Intel Partner Alliance further clarifies its XPU vision and sharpens the company’s focus on solutions, streamlining collaboration among Intel’s partners and new customers. Intel’s partners can expect an improved customer experience due to the simplification of multiple programs and infrastructures into a more unified, customer-centric partner program platform that is designed to entice broader innovation and cooperation.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Platform: Unveiling the Great Wall of Ride
Qualcomm gains valuable Snapdragon Ride Platform sales and marketing momentum from its GWM win. Qualcomm is demonstrating that even during the uncertainties of the global COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical trade tensions that collaboration with China-based concerns can yield substantial business and technical progress in the fast-emerging autonomous vehicles space.
Qualcomm is showing it can meet the challenges of advancing ADAS capabilities, especially in safely attaining L4/L5 autonomous driving capabilities, working with key partners such as GWM. Now Qualcomm must execute in areas such as demonstrating ADAS-related sensor technology is ready for prime time driving in all conditions and that AI-enable innovations are replicable across the industry to sustain the Snapdragon Ride Platform’s long-term competitive success.
Marvell Industry Analyst Day 2020: Marvell is Securely Sailing Cloud-High on LiquidSecurity Portfolio
Marvell is becoming more prominent in protecting rapid cloud data center growth through its LiquidSecurity portfolio. With enterprises rapidly accelerating their adoption of public cloud resources, relying on HSM-enabled cloud security helps attain peace of mind in fulfilling their highest priority cloud security requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall breaks down here why he believes Marvell is strongly positioned to further expand its influence across the hyperscaler cloud ecosystem and drive more enterprise adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud services and applications.
Juniper Reveals Data Center Intentions with Apstra Acquisition
Overall, Juniper made a smart choice in pulling the trigger on acquiring Apastra. Data center environments will require Apstra AOS-enabled IBN intelligence to handle the fast-emerging demands, such as compute-intensive AI/ML workloads, HPC clusters, and 5G-IoT builds, on their resources (e.g., DCIs, 400G upgrades). In the near future, however, the main portfolio development and marketing question for Juniper is “How soon is now” in orchestrating all of its recent acquisition pieces into a more cohesive, fully integrated data center networking proposition that challenges Cisco more broadly and directly.
Ericsson Mobility Report: 5G is Forging Ahead Despite Global C19 Pandemic
The Ericsson Mobility Report is essential to understanding the current state of the worldwide 5G market, particularly since it pinpoints the most important developments in 5G backed with insightful and concise data. The report affirms that 5G is forging ahead across the planet despite the uncertainties of the C-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions affecting supply chains. The report plays a critical role in giving Ericsson a prominent role in the overall 5G market, by helping to capture mind share for its brand as well as informing the key decision making across the entirety of the 5G ecosystem needed to power 5G deployments. The key takeaways, including the validation of the FWA business case, Critical IoT’s rising prominence, rapid expansion of 5G subscriber counts, and 5G SA’s progress, to name a few, all provide solid evidence that 5G is ready to play a prominent role in not only the evolution of mobile networks but also society as a whole.
Open RAN 5G Bill: Congress Ups 5G Stakes with Passage of $750 Million Open RAN 5G Bill
The U.S. House’s Open RAN 5G bill, assuming robust R&D funding remains integral, will further assist ecosystem-wide coordination in key areas like R&D and supply chain integrity. In sum, the mobile industry is steadily shifting to an open RAN model, despite near-term challenges in the process, many of which are expected based on the industry’s experience with previous high-impact technology shifts. The U.S. Congress is sending a clear signal that Open RAN is critical to meeting U.S. government 5G national security and supply chain goals. This provides more funding opportunity for the Open RAN community to prove that Open RAN is ready to meet ecosystem-wide prime time 5G demands.