Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss and fellow Futurum analysts explore FedEx’s move to shut its data centers and mainframes by 2024 and take its IT operations to the cloud to save $400 million a year as it battles its competitors in a fierce shipping and logistics marketplace.
FedEx and Microsoft Team Up on New Cross-Platform Logistics Solution for e-Commerce
Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer explores FedEx and Microsoft’s latest announcement: a new cross-platform logistics solution for e-commerce. She also offers insight on how this logistics-as-a-service offering will change the retail industry.
Dell, Switch and FedEx Build Edge Data Centers
Dell, Switch and FedEx collaborate to build technology hubs that support multicloud and hybrid environments for edge processing. These hubs will operate on Switch’s edge modular data centers that are deployed on FedEx real estate, with Dell providing server hardware and managed services. FedEx will also be the first consumer of these services.
FedEx New SenseAware ID Tracking System Arrives Just in Time for COVID Relief
From an engineering standpoint, selecting the solution with the lowest power consumption and the smallest possible network footprint makes perfect sense, not just for Fedex but also for carriers, for whom bandwidth can often be a challenge. SenseAware ID should be able to provide the high level of value-add tracking that FedEx customers will find valuable while not monopolizing precious network resources.