Intel delivered a strong Q2 as demand for semiconductors remains strong. The biggest growth came from the client business as notebooks surge.
Temenos Pivot to Banking-as-a-Service Seems Like Right Move at the Right Time
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 earning of banking solutions provider Temenos and the company’s pivot to Banking-as-a-Service, which seems like the right move at the right time.
Honeywell Reaches Three Important Quantum Milestones
Honeywell Quantum announced 3 Quantum Computing breakthroughs delivering over 1000 qubits, improved real-time correction and efficiency.
Cloud FinOps Management: Optimizing Cost Savings in Multi-cloud Environments
CSPs must prioritize FinOps management in the development of their multi-cloud administration strategies that account for security costs, the capture and development of best practices, and the fulfillment of legal mandates across a multitude of jurisdictions. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why failure is not an option since CSPs must have an optimized multi-cloud strategy in place to meet the security and legal requirements of their customers as well as deploying best practices to assure positive business outcomes as well as how Amdocs offers the Cloud Operations portfolio essential to fulfilling telco-specific FinOps requirements.
IBM Systems Has A Tough Quarter, But That Is Not The Whole Story
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 2021 results for IBM Systems. The headline results on the surface look troubling for Systems, however given the product life cycles of IBM Z and Power, and tough comparisons against Q2 2020, the business did surprisingly well and shows areas of growth and penetration in the marketplace.
PROS Launches New SaaS Editions of Pricing Platform
PROS launches new SaaS editions of pricing platform, helping solve some serious challenges in the omnichannel commerce world. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at the newest PROS offerings and breaks down how AI-powered price optimization and price configurating for quoting can deliver some serious benefits.
IBM’s Bluetab Acquisition: Tripling Down on Building Cloud Services Business
With yet another acquisition, this time Bluetab, IBM is clearly tripling down on building its cloud services business. Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis on the spending spree IBM is on to build a post Kyndryl services business that can support the company’s ambitions in hybrid cloud. A pattern is emerging in the acquisition strategy of IBM in the services business to focus on the deployment of hybrid cloud solutions.
Intel Exploring a Potential Deal to Buy GlobalFoundries
Intel is reportedly in conversations to acquire specialty chip-production leader GlobalFoundries in a deal that could reach $30 billion.
SUSE Announces First Earnings as a Public Company, Post Rancher Labs Acquisition
Futurum analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the first set of earnings announcements from SUSE as a public company. With SUSE having recently acquired Rancher Labs and IPO’ing the business in May, this first set of numbers was crucial to the market sentiment around this open source leader. SUSE showed strong growth and positive signals across all areas of the business, including Cloud adoption.
Amazon and Facebook Seek Recusal of FTC Chair Lina Khan
Amazon and Facebook have filed petitions asking for the recusal of FTC Chair Lina Khan from cases in which the company’s are involved.