Futurum Research analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss dive into Lenovo’s recent Q3 2021/2022 earnings report and look at how the Chinese company has established a solid business footing for a successful 2022.
AWS EC2 X2gd Instances Powered Using Home-Grown Graviton2 Processors
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.
The Role of Company Culture in Technology Integration Success! #SMACtalk Ep 28
Brian and Dan attempt to change the current technology discussion from what’s the best technology solutions available to, what technology is my company using today and what solutions best fit in my company culture. The goal for businesses embracing technology must be around implementing the best tools and solutions to empower our employees to be most productive when solving business …
When Big Data Causes Big Problems #SMACtalk Ep 26
We all know that Big Data is a hot topic. As businesses and consumers we are constantly witnessing how data can be used to better understand our customers, our operations and of course our own buying behavior. However, big data in all of its glory isn’t always so perfect. What happens when we let data become a mere support structure …
Digital Transformation and Change Agents the Non Meerkat Themes of SXSW SMACtalk Live EP 22
On this episode of smack talk Live Daniel and Brian discuss what Brian saw as the most important topics and trends at SXSW this week. Beyond the ever popular Meerkat app which the smack talk team was using to give behind the scenes views of this episode the biggest takeaways in Brian’s mind were the importance of being a digital …
Video Will Reimagine The Future of Communication #SMACtalk Live Ep 12
In this episode (#12) of SMACTalk, co-hosts Brian Fanzo and Daniel Newman explore the ways that video is changing the way businesses market, communicate and socialize. Over the past 10+ years, the internet has redefined media. First social media (Twitter, Facebook, WordPress) shifted print media from a lengthy creative process to an instant on-demand industry and then radio followed suit …
Pop Culture Creates Cloud Myths and We Bust Them! #SMACtalk Ep 11 #Podcast
On this episode of SMACtalk Live we talk Cloud Computing, focusing on how the concept of cloud computing has really changed over the last 4 years for good and bad thanks to pop culture. So many of use apps and tools throughout our day that leverage the cloud but probably don’t even realize it. At the same time the misconceptions …