Spectrum Enterprise bolsters is Managed Network Edge solution with enhancements designed to improve productivity for office, remote, and mobile workforces through new managed network solution options. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why using the Cisco Meraki platform strengthens the Spectrum Enterprise MNE solution in countering rival offerings and meeting the distinct demands of distributed workforces.
MWC 2022: Dell Intros New Open Telco Solutions and Works with Marvell to Spur Open RAN
Dell Technologies introduces new telco solutions and services, including Dell Telecom Multi-Cloud Foundation and Dell Open RAN Accelerator, to strengthen the open telecom ecosystem cause and CSP transitions toward open, cloud-native networks. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Dell’s new solutions and services can boost CSP confidence in using distributed server capabilities across multi-cloud architectures, including especially working with Marvell to deliver open, virtualized 5G RAN architectures that are key to accelerating broader open 5G networking.
MWC 2022: Qualcomm and HPE Prep Virtual Distributed Units for 5G Prime Time
Qualcomm and HPE team up to provide virtual distributed unit technology aimed at lowering operator TCO costs and streamlining vRAN/Open RAN deployments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how the collaboration between Qualcomm and HPE provides the technical differentiators, business relations, and ecosystem influence to help spur Open RAN adoption and put competitive pressure on rivals to up their TCO returns across their RAN portfolios.
T-Mobile Hits 100% Renewable Energy Goal: Boosts Sustainability Credentials of Mobile Industry
T-Mobile fulfilled its ambitious objective of running 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable energy by the end of 2021. Futurum Research senior analyst Ron Westfall assesses why T-Mobile RE100 accomplishment can elevate clean energy considerations in the evaluation of mobile operators, including especially 5G services, aid organizations in their pursuit of ESG goals, and how the milestone puts more competitive pressure on rivals.
Intel Foundry Services Fully Launches IFS Accelerator to Speed Up Foundry Customer Benefits
Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services Accelerator is unveiled to bring together design ecosystem partners to deliver a complete spectrum of solutions and services for customers’ design requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how IFA Accelerator combines EDA, IP, and design service capabilities can spur customer silicon innovation and further solidifies Intel’s ability to use its own foundry resources to strengthen its competitive prospects against key rivals like AMD and NVIDIA who must rely on third-party foundries.
Oracle Database API for MongoDB: Running MongoDB Workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle unveils Oracle Database API for MongoDB targeted at easing the running of MongoDB on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new API helps deliver modern document-centric development benefits, proven enterprise functionality, and a wide range of Autonomous DB benefits such as elasticity, security, and availability to MongoDB users.
Juniper Unveils Juniper Secure Edge to Up SASE Proposition
Juniper unveils Juniper Secure Edge aimed at delivering new capabilities, such as Firewall-as-a-Service, that can ease organization migration to a SASE architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Juniper Secure Edge provides the single-stack, cloud-delivered security and unified management and visibility key to engendering organization transitioning towards a SASE architecture as well as boosting Juniper’s competitive prospects against major security players like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco.
Clearfield Partners with Utility Telecom to Deliver Eco-Friendly Floating Data Center
Clearfield in partnership with Utility Telecom delivers the fiber management and connectivity solutions critical to Nautilus Data Technologies 7MW floating data center. Futurum’s Ron Westfall addresses how Clearfield’s fiber management and connectivity platforms met the unique demands of the Nautilus data center environment and how its fiber optic portfolio and fiber technology will play an increasingly critical role toward enabling organizations to fulfill their ESG and sustainability goals.
Oracle Cloud Lift Services Plays Integral Role in Delivering OCI Benefits to 1K+ Organizations
Oracle Cloud Lift Services now supports over 1K organizations in their migration of complex workloads from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Oracle Cloud Lift Services is instrumental in aiding customers with data lakehouse, data analytics, data science design and migration applications, boosting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s overall influence across the cloud ecosystem.
Pluribus Takes Network Visibility for Cloud Native Apps to the Next Level and Commits to 400 GbE
Pluribus Networks unveiled three new fabric offerings, FlowTracker, KubeTracker, and Virtualized Network Packet Broker, as well as Netvisor ONE support on Dell 400 GbE PowerSwitch technology, as integral capabilities in release 7 of its Netvisor ONE OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric portfolio. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Pluribus solutions fulfill the burgeoning demand for comprehensive visibility for all network flows across distributed cloud native applications, especially across container environments, and strengthens Pluribus’ competitive standing against key rivals such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and Extreme.