Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer explores FedEx and Microsoft’s latest announcement: a new cross-platform logistics solution for e-commerce. She also offers insight on how this logistics-as-a-service offering will change the retail industry.
Intel and Dell Partner with American Association of Community Colleges on Furthering AI Education
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the partnership between Intel and Dell and the American Association of Community Colleges to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) education in community and technical colleges in all 50 states by 2023 as part of Intel’s AI for Workforce Program.
Xerox Announces Multi-Year Deal with Oracle
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman breaks down the news of the Xerox-Oracle multi-year deal, offering insights on what this will mean for both companies.
Kyndryl Viewpointe Win to Accelerate IT Modernization With Move to Azure Showcases Partnership Strategy
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Kyndryl on its multi-year relationship refresh with Viewpointe. The announcement from recently NYSE listed Kyndryl highlights the company’s ecosystem and strategic partnership focus evidenced by a shift to the Microsoft Azure stack.
ServiceNow and EY Expand Strategic Partnership to Transform Tax Services for Digital Age
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the expanded partnership between ServiceNow and EY and how together they will streamline complex enterprise operations.
Qualcomm and Google Cloud Collaborate on Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to Power Connected Intelligent Edge
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard highlights the just-announced Qualcomm-Google Cloud partnership aimed at accelerating neural network development for the connected intelligent edge. Blanchard explains how the partnership, which focuses on neural architecture search and brings Google Cloud’s Vertex AI NAS to Qualcomm’s powerful new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform, is expected to scale to high-growth mobile-adjacent segments like IoT, Automotive, and XR, essentially representing a significant forward leap in the development of the next fundamental technology layer: the connected intelligent edge. Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform is the first SOC to do this.
AWS Announces Mainframe Modernization Acceleration Program in Partnership with Micro Focus
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of AWS re:Invent related to the mainframe platform. AWS continues to sharpen its focus on the venerable mainframe platform with a more comprehensive partnership with Micro Focus.
Amazon Trains Drivers and Transport Employees in Effort to Fight Human Trafficking
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer weighs in on Amazon’s commitment to train drivers and transport employees, and other strategic partnerships the company has forged, in an effort to help combat human trafficking and modern slavery and forced labor.
Kyndryl and Microsoft Cloud Partner to Jointly Serve Enterprise Customers in First Deal Out of the Gate Post IBM Spinoff
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer shares thoughts on the recently announced global strategic alliance between Kyndryl and Microsoft Cloud. While it’s an impressive way to come out of the gate for Kyndryl immediately post IBM spinoff, more importantly, this strategic partnership is centered on both companies serving enterprise customers and facilitating the building and deployment of both cloud solutions, as well as addressing the need for augmented IT expertise at the enterprise level.
Groq Turbocharges COVID Drug Discovery at Argonne National Laboratory
Groq demonstrates its technology enabled the acceleration of compute timelines from days to seconds at Argonne National Laboratory in its COVID drug discovery initiative. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Groq potentially gains a significant sales and marketing boost from its Argonne National Laboratory collaboration, especially in demonstrating the Groq solutions performance advantage over established GPU products as well as potentially fulfilling compute acceleration for an expanding array of AI and machine learning use cases and missions.
