In this research report, Futurum Research explores why Dell’s Project Alpine enables customers to use the APIs and management tools they already use, avoiding the expense and complexity of refactoring applications or reskilling workforces to drive their multi-cloud journey. As such, customers can combine their preferred public cloud services with Dell Technologies’ enterprise data services to attain uncompromised connectivity and consistent experience deploying Dell assets such as PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerFlex and ObjectScale on-prem to optimize their multi-cloud data services.
Data & AI Summit 2022 Recap: Databricks Continues Commitment to Open Source Powered Innovation
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens covers the announcements made at the Data & AI Summit 2022 this week in San Francisco, organized by Databricks. As organizations look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, many are turning to open source approaches such as Lakehouse and Spark, and Databricks appears to be well-positioned to see strong growth in the months ahead.
Twitter Slapped with $150 Million Fine by Federal Investigators, Undermining Credibility and Trust
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines the implications of the $150 million fine imposed on Twitter for data privacy violations by the U.S. FTC including diminishing user trust in the social media platform’s adherence to data privacy expectations and guidelines as well as how Elon Musk’s pending takeover could restore trust levels by taking the company private and making its codebase open source.
OCI Delivers New Security Capabilities that Fortify Cloud Apps and Data Against Emerging Threats
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.
It’s Time to Drive Transformation with Data: A Retrospective on WalkMe’s Year-end Industry Roundtable
Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer takes a look back at WalkMe’s year-end industry roundtable event which was held in December, offering insights into key announcements, the company’s overall growth, and WalkMe’s plans for 2022, which center on data, data, and more data.
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.
Go Beyond Google Analytics and Use Data to Educate Your Clients
Numbers and data are no longer a daunting task — they’ve now become an integral part of a company’s operations. The issue is most companies are only given the basic facts of their data without the what’s, how’s, and why’s that are driving the data analytics. Jaywing, a British data-based digital agency, found that brands across the board are failing …
Is Facebook done? No. Not yet anyway. But the social network is skating on very thin ice
No company can survive very long without its customers’ (or users’) trust. Banks, insurance companies, retailers, hotels… it doesn’t matter: Lose your customers’ trust, and they will take their business elsewhere. Facebook is no different.
Security Operation Center: Your Newest Defense Strategy
Cyber security is now an organizational issue. Here’s how to determine if your business needs to build a security operation center.
Can You Make Your Smart Factory Smarter? IoT Takes Quality to a New Level
Manufacturing is undergoing a revolution. Discover how the IoT is enabling smart factories and driving quality across manufacturers.