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LinuxONE Stripped Naked in the IBM Cloud

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM Cloud. With hybrid cloud becoming the prevailing deployment architecture for many enterprises, IBM is leaning into providing LinuxONE as-a-service on the IBM cloud.

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Kyndryl Expands Offerings with Kyndryl Bridge, a Platform Designed to Help Customers Accelerate their Digital Transformation Journeys

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Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Steven Dickens provide their take on Kyndryl Bridge, announced by IT services behemoth Kyndryl and designed to help customers accelerate digital transformation and digital modernization journeys. Kyndryl Bridge is the company’s innovative approach to simplifying IT service delivery and harnessing the power of automation. What’s ahead for Kyndryl and their customers will be exciting to watch play out.

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VMware Posts Solid Q2 Earnings Ahead of Broadcom Acquisition

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the VMware Q2 FY23 earnings and the Broadcom acquisition that is still pending. As customers look to pivot from on-premises virtualization to hybrid cloud operations, VMware is trying to stay their partner of choice. Solid numbers from VMware show the company is making progress ahead of the Broadcom acquisition that should close in 2023.

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Red Hat Announces Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Continuing to Innovate in the Kubernetes and Containers Space

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements of the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift becoming generally available. As customers look to innovate and simplify cloud operations, whether that is on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, complexity and scale is often a challenge. Red Hat is focused on delivering a simplified hybrid cloud management experience and these announcements build on this holistic vision.

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Cloudera Can’t Wait! Apache Iceberg Now Available on Cloudera Data Platform

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the general availability of Apace Iceberg on Cloudera Data Platform advances the ecosystem-wide mission of expanding openness for data lakehouses while handling data anywhere across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as addresses increasing enterprise demand for improving time to value for their data science teams while operating at the speed of innovation while avoiding vendor lock-in.

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IBM’s The Weather Company Max Platform Gains Rich Video Storytelling Tools and On-Air Severe Weather Alerts to Bolster Broadcast Weather Coverage

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The News: IBM’s The Weather Company is adding deep new video storytelling capabilities to its diverse The Weather Company Max platform, giving local and regional broadcasters the ability to quickly create high-quality, customized and real-time digital weather stories and updates that can be brought straight to viewers. The new Max Velocity features are available now, while an additional new Max …

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New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences to be Powered by AMD EPYC Processors for VMware Users Running Hybrid Cloud Environments

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Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines Oracle’s latest plans to offer all-new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences powered by AMD EPYC processors for hybrid cloud users as Oracle expands its use of AMD EPYC CPUs beyond Oracle’s existing E3 and E4 compute instances.