Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.
Check Point and Alibaba Cloud Raise the Multi-Cloud and Cloud Security Stakes
Check Point expands its Unified Cloud platform to support Alibaba Cloud elevating market awareness of its advanced security, visibility, and compliance capabilities of its cloud security portfolio, especially across multi-cloud environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Check Point’s integration of its CloudGuard solution with Alibaba Cloud strengthens its overall multi-cloud proposition and provides a marketing edge over rivals as well as how Alibaba Cloud benefits competitively from the Check Point relationship.
For Its Critics, Amazon Can Never Do Enough
The main question where Amazon is concerned is how Amazon serves both investors and the greater good. This year we are likely to find out.
What the AT&T and Google Partnership Means for Edge Computing
As with any new partnership announcement, the news isn’t so much about the business deal as it is about the potential of what could come of it. And right now, the AT&T and Google deal signifies that the world is ready for a bigger push for 5G/edge computing.
China Chipping Away at Smart Speaker Market as Amazon Maintains Lead
New data on smart speakers show that the market is growing at a fast pace, but it is new entrants, mostly from China that are seeing the biggest growth.
Alibaba Follows Huawei Into the AI Chip Space With the Hanguang 800
As companies continue to realize the potential of machine learning to increase productivity and revenue, new entrants like Alibaba are building AI Chips.
Alibaba Releases First Core Processor as China Pushes To Be More Competitive
Alibaba is moving into advanced technology and this week has launched its first core processor chip to help the company and China move forward in providing increased innovation and competition to the United States in the semiconductor space.
Alibaba vs. Amazon: The Battle of Disruptive Innovation Beyond Traditional E-Commerce
If one thing is for certain, it’s that there is a dominant figure in the e-commerce world. I bet your mind instantly went to Amazon—and for good reason. They have 300 million active users, bring in billions of online revenue each year, and hold 49.1 percent of the US e-commerce market share. They are the literal definition of a tech …