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 to achieve successful cloud journeys. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres proposition fulfills the portability, security, and speed requirements key to the containerization and modernization of enterprise hybrid cloud implementations.
Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch Launch Aims to Shatter Centralized Security Appliance Chokepoints
Aruba, a HPE company, introduced its CX 10000 Distributed Services Switch, aimed at enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined stateful services where data is created and processed, with the goal of eliminating legacy appliances and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by modern applications and IT organizations. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new solution is a clearly differentiated competitive threat to centralized security appliance solutions and could make further inroads by making TCO benefits more tangible, demonstrating portfolio ability to comprehensively administer any switch/server/appliance fabric scenario, and sharpen the advantages and role of the Distributed Services Switch in relation to alternative SmartNIC/DPU implementations.
New Futurum Research Report – HPE GreenLake for VDI: The Optimal Choice for On-premises Cloud Services
VDI is ready to make new inroads as organizations must fully align their operations and business processes to the digital workplace demands of the post-pandemic hybrid workforce and hybrid cloud era. Futurum Research analyzes why it identifies HPE GreenLake for VDI as the best value for meeting today’s foremost VDI challenges due to new capabilities such as the ability to deploy directly into the customer data center or colocation facility, combining the software and hardware required to keep desktops close to users and applications, assuring an optimized desktop experience.
ServiceNow Industry Analyst Event: Rome Release Readies Now Platform to Power Hybrid Work Transformation
At its Industry Analyst event, ServiceNow emphasized how the recent Now Platform Rome release provides the vast array of innovations needed to enable organizations to meet the workforce and workflow challenges of the hybrid work era. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the ServiceNow Now Platform is ready to power evolving business models, improve employee satisfaction, advance organization-wide automation, and scale application development, providing key differentiation for ServiceNow against formidable rivals.
Hansen Technologies: Powering the Next Age of Digital Experience
Hansen’s Create-Deliver-Engage (CDE) suite is a set of software applications that aims to fulfill operator digital transformation objectives through tailored applications that are delivered through the Hansen Cloud. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Hansen’s CDE proposition provides the catalog-driven portfolio range and flexibility across the converged billing, CPQ, order management, and provisioning product domains to assure suite-wide innovation and first-tier influence in driving CSP digital transformation.
NEC and Netcracker Join Forces with ADVA and Juniper to Boost 5G xHaul Transport Automation
NEC and Netcracker unveiled an integrated multi-vendor solution with ADVA and Juniper that targets packet optical automation and the streamlining of 5G transport. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the alliance bolsters NEC’s strong hand as lead integrator for Open RAN projects across broader Open 5G network builds, enhances Netcrackers’ Network Domain Orchestration credentials, and augments the 5G ecosystem prospects of ADVA and Juniper.
Mavenir Adds ngOSS to Strengthen MAVscale and Open 5G Arsenal
Mavenir introduces its ngOSS offering as a new addition to its MAVscale platform, blending AI, analytics, automation, and orchestration key to advancing 5G capabilities through intelligent network operations. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Mavenir’s ngOSS bolsters its MAVscale platform and overall open 5G proposition by countering rival OSS offerings and augmenting the company’s open RAN messaging providing the foundation to make long-term competitive waves across the 5G ecosystem.
HPE GreenLake Meets Growing Ecosystem Demand for Cloud Data Protection and Unified Analytics
HPE introduces new cloud services, such as HPE GreenLake for analytics and HPE GreenLake for data protection, to augment the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new cloud service offerings strengthen HPE GreenLake’s competitive position across the hybrid cloud and public cloud market segments as well as heightens ecosystem awareness of the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Adoption Framework that is designed specifically to de-risk organization cloud journeys.
Oracle Exadata X9M Shellacs AWS and Azure with Latency, Throughput, and Cost Breakthroughs
Oracle launches Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M swiftly providing the OLTP I/O latency and analytics throughput advantages that vastly eclipse both the public cloud AWS RDS and Azure SQL offerings. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M shellacs the public cloud AWS and Azure offerings, let alone any on-premises options, across key latency, IOPS, throughput, and cost metrics that give Oracle a virtually insurmountable competitive edge.
DISH Goes with IBM AI-Powered Assets to Advance Cloud-Native 5G Network Build
DISH chooses IBM to help automate its 5G network deployment, particularly in the targeting of Industry 4.0 verticals and use cases. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why DISH’s selection of IBM’s AI-powered automation and network orchestration capabilities provides the essential capabilities needed to push its cloud-native 5G network deployment forward and boosts the Cloud Pak for Network Automation proposition across the 5G ecosystem, especially among operators.