Cisco’s new Catalyst products, aimed at seeding 5G and SASE across the WAN edge, bolster its competitive prospects in the SD-WAN/SASE market segment and the WAN Edge realm against formidable foes such as VMware, Fortinet, Versa, HPE, and Juniper. The move also boosts industry awareness of the company’s pivotal role in accelerating 5G adoption across enterprise environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall covers why that’s a smart, strategic move.
Google Down Under: Hitting Stronger Regulatory Headwinds
Google is the colossus in the worldwide search engine market segment and possesses the market might to stare down regulators in places like Australia. Rivals, such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yahoo, now have a distinct opportunity to take advantage of Google’s ongoing tilt Down Under to elevate market awareness, including especially among government decision makers, that they are compelling alternatives to Google.
Exploring 5 Top Retail Trends At NRF 2021
NRF 2021, like so many events over the past year went fully remote for its first chapter, which focused on key leadership initiatives and the future of retail. This piece focuses on six themes and five trends identified at this year’s NRF chapter 1.
Honeywell Finishes Year Strong, Pivoting Deeper into Tech
Honeywell capped off a challenging 2020 year with another outperformance heavily influenced by its diversification and tech pivot.
Juniper Networks Tops Expectations on Strong Demand and Execution
Juniper closed out its 4th quarter beating top and bottom line expectations on strong demand for networking expected to carry over to 2021.
Microsoft Announces Microsoft Cloud for Retail at NRF 2021, Showing Commitment to Helping Brands Enable Intelligent Retail
Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Cloud for Retail at NRF 2021, adding to the roster of the big cloud players’ vertical-specific platforms. The announcement highlights Microsoft’s focus on and commitment to helping brands enable ‘intelligent retail.’
What Investors are Missing About Qualcomm, an Oft-misunderstood Chip Company
Qualcomm announces a change in CEO and positions the company for massive revenue and profit growth as the chip maker diversifies.
6 Key Themes Driving Headlines At CES 2021
There were several key themes that drove headlines throughout this year’s CES, which for the first time went fully virtual. Here are six of the key themes and announcements and analysis to back why these themes were so pervasive throughout this year’s event.
Qualcomm’s Automotive Sector Strategy Shifts into High Gear this Week With a Bevy of Announcements
Qualcomm’s automotive sector strategy shifts into high gear this week with a very of announcements combining powerful SOCs, homogeneous system design and 5G to deliver best-in-class technology solutions to global automakers.
AMD Outperforms for Q4 and Year Delivering Strong Growth
AMD finished the year out with a big result seeing significant QoQ and YoY growth as it heads into 2021 with strong momentum behind it.