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Marvell Injects New CXL Technology into Cloud-Optimized CXL Portfolio with Tanzanite Acquisition

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Marvell’s acquisition of Tanzanite locks in Tanzanite’s Compute Express Link (CXL) technology and expertise that further bolsters Marvell’s CXL platform for cloud data centers. The deal follows on Marvell’s string of successful M&A deals, such as the Innovium and Inphi acquisitions, demonstrating its organization-wide ability to effectively use acquisitions to broaden its addressable market and boost overall competitiveness throughout key markets such as the cloud-optimized silicon market segment.

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HPE Dazzles with Host of New HPE GreenLake Capabilities and Partnerships

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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.

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AWS EC2 X2gd Instances Powered Using Home-Grown Graviton2 Processors

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AWS has announced general availability of EC2 X2gd instances of its cloud computing offering. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the importance of this new offering and how it plays into the growing demand for memory-intensive workloads, such as real-time data analytics. In short, it means very good things for AWS customers. It increases the performance and cuts the cost of cloud computing for workloads such as in-memory databases, relational databases, and our favorite, real-time data analytics. This, coupled with AWS’s scalable, pay-as-you-go consumption model, is exactly what is needed today.

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Enterprise Cloud Computing Trends to Watch for This Year

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The cloud. It’s foundational to business in digital transformation and will continue to be in years to come. But nothing stays the same for long in the digital age. So, how is the cloud itself transforming? And what does enterprise cloud computing look like in 2019 and beyond? The following are a few of the biggest trends to watch for …