At AWS re:Invent 2021, AWS announces AWS Cloud WAN aimed at providing a unified dashboard that enterprises can leverage to connect their on-premises branch offices, data centers, and AWS Virtual Private Clouds across the AWS worldwide network. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why AWS Cloud WAN offers the global managed service capabilities needed to streamline enterprise development and administration of their connected cloud and on-premises environments.
Ericsson Goes Long on Open Network Innovation with $6.2 Billion Acquisition of Vonage
Ericsson enters into agreement for $6.2 billion cash offer to acquire Vonage, a provider of cloud-based communications, propelling Ericsson’s strategy to boost its wireless enterprise channel influence and broaden its global offerings. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Ericsson’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage can disrupt the crowded CPaaS market segment, spur API-driven 5G/4G innovation across the enterprise wireless realm, and provide the foundation to advance ecosystem-wide open network innovation.
New Futurum Research Report – A Colocation Cloud Journey with Flexibility and Peace of Mind
Futurum Research believes that the HPE GreenLake platform is the best solution to meet the growing demand across organizations to balance their workloads across colocation, on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud environments. For many organizations, the cloud journey has proven challenging, and HPE GreenLake with colocation provides the practical capabilities and solutions needed to advance digital transformation, while meeting business outcomes and sustainability goals.
FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres Ready to Power ISV Fulfillment of Container-driven Software Modernization Journey
Organizations are accelerating the containerization and modernization of their hybrid clouds to attain the deep insights, expanded agility through portability, pre-enabled security, high availability, and open platform capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres proposition fulfills the portability, security, and speed requirements critical to enabling ISVs to take advantage of the design once, deploy many implementation principles that fulfills their customer’s containerization and multi-cloud requirements with sizable cost savings.
Groq Turbocharges COVID Drug Discovery at Argonne National Laboratory
Groq demonstrates its technology enabled the acceleration of compute timelines from days to seconds at Argonne National Laboratory in its COVID drug discovery initiative. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Groq potentially gains a significant sales and marketing boost from its Argonne National Laboratory collaboration, especially in demonstrating the Groq solutions performance advantage over established GPU products as well as potentially fulfilling compute acceleration for an expanding array of AI and machine learning use cases and missions.
Betacom’s 5G as a Service Offering is Built on Valuable Lessons from Early Private Wireless Network Adopters
Futurum analyst Ron Westfall evaluates Betacom’s 5G as a Service offering and private wireless network portfolio, providing comprehensive plan, design, build, and operate capabilities and the competitive advantage they might well provide in driving broader adoption across industry verticals.
NVIDIA GTC 2021: Cloudera and NVIDIA Expand Partnership, Look to RAPIDly Advance Data Scientist Adoption of GPUs
Cloudera and NVIDIA are now offering RAPIDS Edition ML Runtimes to make it simpler for data scientists to use Cloudera Machine Learning to work with NVIDIA GPUs, bypassing the impediments of needing to configure CUDA drivers and library dependencies. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into how the augmented Cloudera NVIDIA alliance could expand data science community adoption of running more data science pipelines on NVIDIA GPU infrastructure to improve their data-driven operations over CPU implementations, particularly for massive cloud data workload applications and scaling out for large processes.
MWC LA 2021: Radisys Jumpstarts the Release 16 5G New Radio Bandwagon
Radisys launched Release 16 5G New Radio software that delivers the capabilities needed to spur CSP and enterprise support of 5G use cases across multiple industry verticals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Radisys is capitalizing on the enhanced R16 features, such as MU-MIMO, DSS, beamforming, key to spurring Open RAN adoption and ecosystem-wide 5G innovation.
Juniper Support Insights Assures Comprehensive AI-driven Junos Portfolio Vision and Message
Juniper extends AI-powered support to entire Junos portfolio to streamline operator efficiencies and augment end user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Support Insight offering spotlights the capabilities of its AI assets and provides more cohesion across Juniper’s portfolio-wide marketing outreach including delivering the benefits of Experience-First Networking.
Pluribus Networks and ITRenew Team Up to Smash TCO while Improving Sustainability for Private Cloud Infrastructure
ITRenew augments its suite of networking solutions with Pluribus Networks’ Adaptive Cloud Fabric providing advanced and sustainable network solutions with the agility and efficiency of open architecture that deliver the cost-effective performance and energy efficiencies needed to power multiple and fast expanding workloads across data center environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Pluribus Networks and ITRenew partnership delivers TCO, sustainability, and supply chain reliability and can demonstrate a competitive advantage over some conventional OEM solutions and how their collaboration across the OCP also assures open-source flexibility for enterprise and CSP customers.