Futurum analyst Michael Diamond discusses recent announcements by Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud around the roll out of additional training and certification programs, exploring why these programs are not only good for channel partners looking to transform their business models, they’re smart move for the hyperscalers as well.
IBM Systems Revenue Put Into a Historical Context
Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the financial history of the mainframe launch cycle. IBM is a different company from when the last mainframe was launched, and the new system that will be announced earlier this month has the opportunity to further drive the company’s growth trajectory in the coming quarters.
New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences to be Powered by AMD EPYC Processors for VMware Users Running Hybrid Cloud Environments
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines Oracle’s latest plans to offer all-new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences powered by AMD EPYC processors for hybrid cloud users as Oracle expands its use of AMD EPYC CPUs beyond Oracle’s existing E3 and E4 compute instances.
Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M Raises the Cloud Database Market Stakes
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Oracle Exadata Cloud X9M debut can enable Oracle to defend and upgrade its vast X9M/X8M customer base through OLTP and Analytics performance and scale advances that maintain existing costs as well as create the differentiation needed to compel rivals such as AWS and Azure to take swift heed of Oracle’s latest cloud database portfolio development and marketing moves.
Google Cloud’s Retail Search Tool Geared Toward Helping Eliminate Cart Abandonment
Futurum’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer explores Google Cloud’s announcement of the launch of its new Retail Search, a tool designed to help ecommerce retailers address and mitigate cart abandonment and level up on the customer experience front. In combination with Google Cloud’s other retail tools, this is a smart move for Google Cloud as it continues to try and gain traction in the cloud wars.
Oracle MySQL HeatWave: Teaching the Competition a Lesson in ML
Oracle debuts MySQL HeatWave ML delivering support of extensive machine learning based automation which enables the entire system to become more intelligent over time, locking in accrued lifecycle value for all customers as well as new ML explanations in HeatWave that deliver differentiation across usability and interpretability, quality, as well as performance and scalability criteria. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why new MySQL HeatWave ML is well-positioned to meet the most demanding database applications and expectations of enterprise users. From our perspective, the new innovations Oracle has built into MySQL HeatWave ML, enables the solution to stand out with a compelling feature set, AutoML scalability, real-time elasticity, date per node, portfolio-wide enhancement, and price/performance differentiation against the gauntlet of competition.
Palo Alto Networks Unveils Cloud NGFW for AWS, a Managed Firewall Service for AWS
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer offers insight into Palo Alto Networks’ new managed firewall service, Cloud NGFW for AWS, jointly developed with AWS, and how this new approach to security for the public cloud is exactly what businesses need in our cloud-first, quick moving, resource strapped world.
UPS Expansion of Its Google Cloud Data Analytics Deal Points to UPS Garnering Even More Insights from Its Growing Data Tsunami
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how UPS is expanding its data analytics deal with Google Cloud so as to deepen its data analytics efforts as its package delivery services continue to grow, as well as what’s ahead as it relates to the use of RFID chips.
EC 2022: Mavenir Communicates New Business Communications Portfolio Capabilities
Mavenir unveils a SaaS portfolio of business communications for CSPs, channels and systems integrators aimed at meeting the customer engagement, business messaging, CPaaS, UCaaS, and CCaaS needs of all businesses regardless of size. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Business Communications Portfolio expands Mavenir’s addressable market across the business communications realm and enhances its overall 5G proposition.
NVIDIA GTC 2022: NVIDIA and Pluribus Networks Seek to Unify and Secure Cloud Networks by Extending SDN Fabric Automation to DPUs
NVIDIA and Pluribus Networks showcase their collaboration at GTC 2022 to advancing unified and secure cloud networks through the extension of SDN fabric automation to DPUs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the NVIDIA Pluribus collaboration can power uniform networking operating environments with automation, network virtualization, and resource-pooling for streamlined infrastructure utilization and security to all workloads and devices across cloud networking environments.