Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of MWCLV22, where Red Hat announced the latest version of OpenStack, OpenStack Platform17. With many enterprises focused on Kubernetes and containers, Red Hat continues to demonstrate engineering prowess and reap the benefits of downstream convergence of OpenShift and OpenStack.
Open Mainframe Project Drives Open Innovation
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of the Open Mainframe Summit. As open source becomes the default option for developers looking to innovate at speed and at scale the mainframe needs to keep pace. The donation of a z15 system to the open-source community hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project takes community driven development to the next level.
LinuxONE – The Penguins Are Back
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of Open Source Summit in Dublin where IBM launched a new high end Linux server, the LinuxONE Emperor 4. With enterprises struggling to deliver on ambitious ESG pledges, IBM has decided to make sustainability the focus for the launch of a new Linux server while still retaining a focus on TCO and security.
NVIDIA Omniverse Gets Expanded Tools, Frameworks, Plug-ins
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks as NVIDIA Omniverse gets expanded tools, frameworks and plug-ins that the GPU maker is integrating to add more must-have features to its powerful enterprise metaverse platform for building virtual worlds.
Confluent Q2 2022 Revenue Up 58% to $139M as Growth Continues
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on Confluent’s Q2 earnings. As clients look to innovate and integrate data flows as part of digital transformation efforts, Kafka is playing a significant role. Confluent is providing robust and wide-ranging solutions on top of these open source layers that are gaining traction with customers, especially in the cloud.
SUSE’s Innovation Engine Roars: SUSE Rancher Now on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE – New Futurum Research Report
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why the SUSE Rancher solution and SUSE Rancher deployed on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE can deliver on the need for enhanced security, performance, and availability while simplifying IT operations and efficiency as organizations expand their adoption of microservices architectures and use of Kubernetes orchestration to enable DevOps and IT infrastructure teams to accelerate digital transformation initiatives.
Red Hat Collaborates with ABB on Industrial Edge Computing Offering
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements this week from Red Hat about the company’s collaboration with ABB on industrial edge computing offering.
Cloudera Can’t Wait! Apache Iceberg Now Available on Cloudera Data Platform
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.
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.
SiFive X280 RISC-V Processor Gets Scalability, Trust Updates
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores SiFive’s announcement around the expanded the features of its latest SiFive X280 RISC-V processors, and explores both the opportunities and challenges ahead for the company.