Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Michael Diamond discuss Google’s acquisition of Mandiant and what that means for the company’s enterprise cloud ambitions in the race against rivals AWS and Microsoft.
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.
Kyndryl Viewpointe Win to Accelerate IT Modernization With Move to Azure Showcases Partnership Strategy
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Kyndryl on its multi-year relationship refresh with Viewpointe. The announcement from recently NYSE listed Kyndryl highlights the company’s ecosystem and strategic partnership focus evidenced by a shift to the Microsoft Azure stack.
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation Platform to Microsoft Azure
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Red Hat around the availability of Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure. As the pressures grow on IT teams to manage more with less increasingly automation of repetitive tasks is a go to options. The Ansible platform is proving a vital tool in the ability for IT teams to keep up and the release of this functionality on Microsoft’s Azure platform increased deployment options for customers.
Microsoft Launched Sustainable Data Center Region in Sweden Using Green Power
Microsoft launched a sustainable data center region in Sweden that will be completely powered by carbon-free green energy. Futurum’s lead analyst Shelly Kramer breaks down this announcement and what it will mean for the region and the future of data storage along with the benefits this is intended to extend to customers in their own sustainability efforts.
Microsoft’s Mesh for Teams is Microsoft’s Nod to the Metaverse
The metaverse is clearly in the news of late, and it appears to be on pace to be one of the biggest trends of 2022. Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement out of Microsoft’s Ignite event of the launch of its Mesh for Teams, a new offering intended to blend the digital and physical worlds, expected to roll out to users in 2022, and offering insight on what this means for the future of the metaverse in the workplace.
Qualcomm’s New WiFi Dual Station Solution Brings Ethernet-Like Latency via WiFi to Windows 11 PCs
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains how Qualcomm’s clever new WiFi Dual Station solution, coupled with Qualcomm FastConnect 4-stream Dual Band Simultaneous, brings ethernet-like reliability and latency to wireless gaming and video of Windows 11 PCs. Also discussed are the importance of Windows 11 native support to the solution’s broad industry adoption, as evidenced by Acer, AMD, Lenovo, Microsoft, Snapdragon Compute Platforms and Valve already moving to integrate it into their product ecosystems.
Talent Shortages Are Magnifying The Need For Improving Employee Experience
What do you do when you run out of talent? There’s a problem now being felt especially in the tech industry, where a lack of skilled IT workers — especially in cloud field — could cause digital transformation to stall in its tracks.
5 Steps For Containing App Sprawl In The Workplace
When the pandemic first began, many employers turned to technology to keep employees connected and engaged. Now, in some cases, employees have so many apps they find it hard to be productive. Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes a look at how to manage this very real, and important challenge.
With The Argus System, Microsoft Research and Collaborators Seek to Leverage Ethereum to Prevent Piracy
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.