The new HPE Ezmeral product and partnership updates sharpen HPE’s Kubernetes management platform portfolio and market messaging. Futurum’s Ron Westfall unpacks the nuances of these updates including how the HPE Ezmeral updates target the data scientists, developers, and IT decision makers with the comprehensive orchestrated Kubernetes (K8) management platform required to accelerate application development innovation and scale AI/ML and data-intensive workloads throughout hybrid and multi-cloud environments. What’s ahead? Ron believes that it’s time for K8 management platform market pace setters VMware and IBM/Red Hat to heed and specifically counter the burgeoning HPE Ezmeral proposition.
4 Vertical Use Cases For Edge Computing Driven By IoT Growth
How are companies using edge computing and IoT to support their digital transformation efforts? The following are just a few real-world examples.
AWS EC2 X2gd Instances Powered Using Home-Grown Graviton2 Processors
AWS has announced general availability of EC2 X2gd instances of its cloud computing offering. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the importance of this new offering and how it plays into the growing demand for memory-intensive workloads, such as real-time data analytics. In short, it means very good things for AWS customers. It increases the performance and cuts the cost of cloud computing for workloads such as in-memory databases, relational databases, and our favorite, real-time data analytics. This, coupled with AWS’s scalable, pay-as-you-go consumption model, is exactly what is needed today.
Intel’s New Ads Target Apple M1 With Former Mac Spokesman Justin Long
Intel has rolled out a new campaign targeting Apple’s M1 deficiencies using long time Apple spokesman Justin Long.
Clearfield Clearview Blue Cassette: Ready for Full-Fiber Prime Time with Double the Capacity and Greater Density
Clearfield’s upgraded Clearview Blue Cassette proposition will oblige key fiber management rivals, Commscope and Corning, to allocate increased portfolio development and marketing resources to counter the new 48-port option. Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the update and the impact on Clearfield’s fiber management portfolio, along with the challenges he anticipates ahead.
NVIDIA’s Future is Bright as its Many Bets are Paying off
NVIDIA’s fourth-quarter revenue topped $5 billion for the first time, capping a stellar year for the chipmaker despite the global pandemic and supply-chain constraints.
Gogo’s Plan to Bring 5G Connectivity to Air Travel Scheduled For 2022
Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard discusses Gogo’s plan to bring 5G connectivity to air travel, scheduled for 2022. The promise of faster internet and more bandwidth in flight opens up a solid opportunity for Gogo to reframe the value of in-flight connectivity.
EU Case Against Amazon Appears to be Running Out of Steam
While the EU has been actively pursuing Amazon for a series of anti-trust breaches, the competition czars are struggling to prove its case.
The U.S. Tightens Restrictions on 5G-related Technology Sales to Huawei
The Biden administration’s tightening of restrictions on 5G related technology sales to Huawei could be seen as a move toward a more uniform application of prohibitions, rather than the prior administration’s more inconsistent application and management of restrictions against Huawei. For technology companies, there are pros and cons to this, which are covered here by Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard, along with what is likely ahead.
It’s Apple Versus a Huge Swath of the Tech World and Apple is Winning
The feud between Apple and Facebook is heating up, as Apple turns its attention to protecting the privacy of its users and implementing aggressive measures to increase the bar for platforms to extract user data without their consent.