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HPE Discover 2022: HPE Amperes Up New ProLiant RL300 Gen11 Servers

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE’s new ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server offering aligns with the cloud-native applications development priorities of service providers and digital-first enterprises as well as how using Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors can boost performance for cloud workloads such as web servers, caching, databases, media transcoding, and AI and advance power efficiency metrics that help fulfill organization-wide sustainability goals.

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Cisco Live!: Cisco Envisions Making Cloud Experience Unified Putting the Onus on its Cloud Networking Portfolio

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explore Cisco’s vision to make cloud networking more intelligent and streamlined through a more unified experience primarily underpinned by the integration of the Cisco Nexus Cloud, Cisco Catalyst, and Cisco Meraki product lines meets the most urgent cloud management demands of IT. Now Cisco can start using a simplified SaaS experience, the acceleration of the cloud adoption process, and easy to consume enterprise and CSP agreements as the building blocks to power the unified experience across cloud environments.

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Juniper Ups SASE Proposition and Stirs Competition with CASB and DLP Additions

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores Juniper’s new Secure Edge CASB and DLP capabilities targeted at augmenting the SASE experience by bolstering cloud-based data safeguards, driving policy-based visibility, fortifying SaaS protections, and easing the overall SASE integration process, enabling Juniper to strengthen its competitive position in the tightly contested SASE market.

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OCI Delivers New Security Capabilities that Fortify Cloud Apps and Data Against Emerging Threats

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores the introduction of five new OCI security capabilities and why they address burgeoning organizational demand for strengthened threat detection and prevention of their cloud applications and data across cloud environments, boosts its cloud ecosystem credentials through the Palo Alto Networks alliance, and improves overall competitiveness against its major cloud service provider rivals.

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Marvell Kicks Off Fiscal 2023 on a High Note with Robust Q1 Financial Results

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Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine Marvell Technologies financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 and why they validate Marvell as a major player across the semiconductor space who exercises considerable ecosystem influence and is exceptionally adept at capitalizing on secular growth drivers across the data infrastructure, cloud, 5G, and auto market segments which help power the company’s long-term growth prospects.

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Dell Technologies World: Dell and Snowflake Seek to Simplify Data Access and Spur Insights in the Multi-cloud Era

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the Dell and Snowflake alliance bolsters Dell’s overall multi-cloud vision and portfolio including increased flexibility for users operating throughout multi-cloud environments and fulfilling data workload optimization as well as how both partners can strengthen their alliance by putting more portfolio development and marketing emphasis on ML capabilities.

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Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Roll Out New Training and Certifications in a Move Designed to Enhance Channel Partner Offerings

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Futurum analyst Michael Diamond discusses recent announcements by Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud around the roll out of additional training and certification programs, exploring why these programs are not only good for channel partners looking to transform their business models, they’re smart move for the hyperscalers as well.

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IBM Systems Revenue Put Into a Historical Context

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Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the financial history of the mainframe launch cycle. IBM is a different company from when the last mainframe was launched, and the new system that will be announced earlier this month has the opportunity to further drive the company’s growth trajectory in the coming quarters.