HPE GreenLake unveiled greater edge to cloud platform capabilities through unified experience, new cloud services, and expanded partner ecosystem collaboration. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE GreenLake’s addition of 12 new cloud services including NaaS, data services, HPC functions, and compute operations management along with a simplified experience that provides one view of all services edge to cloud strengthen HPE GreenLake’s overall competitiveness.
OFC 2022: Marvell Debuts CPO Platform to Spur Open Switch and Optics Integration
Marvell debuts its CPO technology platform aimed at enabling cloud data centers to meet rapidly expanding bandwidth demands driven by applications such as AI/ML engines and HPC clusters with improved energy efficiency benefits. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Marvell’s CPO technology platform is poised to take advantage of broader ecosystem support for standards-based switch and optics integration, diversifies standardized silicon choice, and can help power adoption across cloud data center environments.
Arista Networks: Powering Swifter 400G Adoption Across Cloud and Enterprise Environments – New Futurum Research Report
Arista Networks is strategically focused on developing a portfolio that delivers optimized cloud performance, modular system innovation, telemetry/instrumentation advances, unique power reduction capabilities, and traffic management agility as justifying top priority consideration of the Arista portfolio in the selection of 400G solutions. Futurum Research explores why we believe the Arista products offer the optimal balance of cloud performance, cost saving, power efficiencies, single software image flexibility, and telemetry/instrumentation features throughout 400G data center, cloud, and enterprise environments.
Oracle Unleashes Multi-VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer to Transform Data Management
Oracle debuts Multi-VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer to provide the complete, converged database at a low-cost entry point that solve the customer data management challenges which make running applications and analytics complex and costly to develop and run. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer is ready to streamline application development, provide TCO benefits, improve application development productivity, accelerate cloud adoption, and provides clear differentiation against rival solutions such as AWS RDS on AWS Outposts.
Pluribus Networks Unified Cloud Networking Envisions Unity Throughout Cloud Networking
Pluribus Networks debuts the Pluribus Unified Cloud Networking vision, featuring the Pluribus Unified Cloud Fabric aimed at providing an architecture which powers a unified networking model across distributed clouds, switches, and server-based DPUs with zero-trust distributed security, built-in automation, and pervasive visibility. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Pluribus Unified Cloud Networking directly addresses the challenges of today’s complex, fragmented cloud networks and provide the capabilities and differentiation needed to power swift adoption of unified cloud networking architectures.
Google Acquires Mandiant, Strengthening its Security Portfolio and Hoping to Snag Cloud Share
Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Michael Diamond discuss Google’s acquisition of Mandiant and what that means for the company’s enterprise cloud ambitions in the race against rivals AWS and Microsoft.
Oracle’s Cloud Business Continues Growing Amidst Mixed Q3 Results
Oracle had a tremendous run in 2021 as the company fired on all cylinders and saw material sentiment change as its cloud business found footing surpassing $10 billion a year in run rate revenue. Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman dives into the results and his expectations for the company moving forward.
OFC 2022: Marvell Adds Unique Touch to New Cloud-Optimized 400G/800G PAM4 DSPs
Marvell enters the data center interconnects market segment to capitalize on expanding AI accelerator and growing networking bandwidth demands across data center environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s Alaska A PAM4 DSP family for AECs is meeting an urgent market demand for serial 100G short-reach interconnect solutions and broadens its ability to meet a diverse range of technology demands for customers.
MWC 2022: Amdocs Digital Services Expansion Accentuates Amdocs Mission to Spur Cloud Journeys
Amdocs expands Amdocs Digital Services capabilities with the aim of assisting and accelerating communications service provider and media organization cloud journeys. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Amdocs Digital Services expansion, including the recent acquisition of cloud services specialist DevOpsGroup, aligns with increasing use of professional services by organizations to advance their cloud journeys and puts competitive pressure on rivals to up their DevSecOps credentials.
Spectrum Enterprise Enhances MNE Solution, Uses Cisco Meraki to Strengthen Digital Workforce Capabilities
Spectrum Enterprise bolsters is Managed Network Edge solution with enhancements designed to improve productivity for office, remote, and mobile workforces through new managed network solution options. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why using the Cisco Meraki platform strengthens the Spectrum Enterprise MNE solution in countering rival offerings and meeting the distinct demands of distributed workforces.