For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the implications of the collaboration between Ericsson and Qualcomm in completing what they tout as the first over-the-air 5G New Radio call on CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service) spectrum in a recent trial. Their conversation covered: Why the 5G NR call on CBRS can help drive Industry 4.0 and 5G private network use cases. The suitability and relevan...
Sep 22, 2021•3 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the partnership between Vodafone and Ericsson in the deployment of new energy-efficient 5G radios across the London, UK vicinity. Their conversation covered: Vodadone is using Ericsson’s antenna-integrated radio solution (AIR 3227) that have produced a daily network energy consumption decrease by an average of 43% daily in relation to previous generatio...
Sep 22, 2021•5 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer share their perspective on the Nokia’s decision to pause its work in the O-RAN Alliance due to concerns related to working with China-based companies that are on the U.S. Department’s restrictive Entity list. Their conversation addressed: Why the O-RAN Alliance is influential across the entire 5G mobile ecosystem and Nokia’s decision is important. The factors b...
Sep 22, 2021•6 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall provide their perspectives on Ericsson’s decision to divest its product research and development activities in Nanjing, China by November 2021. Their conversation covered: Ericsson now has four R&D centers after the Nanjing R&D center divestment resulting in the apparent transfer of over 600 employees to TietoEVRY, a Finnish software provider with offic...
Sep 22, 2021•8 min
In this episode of Futurum Tech Webcast series The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover interesting news in the 5G market. This week’s conversation included discussions around: The announcement by Amdocs that it has been selected by Orange to provide business support systems for Europe’s first 5G standalone experimental cloud network in France. This AI and data driven, software-enabled, cloud native network is a two year project and signs of exciting things ahead. Nok...
Sep 21, 2021•26 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Shane Orlick , Chief Revenue Officer for WalkMe, for an exciting conversation about the growth of the company over the last year and the expansion of the digital adoption platform in the workplace. Managing App Sprawl in the Workplace In our conversation we discussed the following: A quick overview of WalkMe and their recent IPO An exploration of the massive tech sprawl in the workplace The complexity of the sales tech...
Sep 21, 2021•32 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Renen Hallak , Founder and CEO of VAST Data for an exciting conversation about the future of IT and data, and how it is impacting the way we work, live and communicate. It was a fascinating conversation from the leader of this great up-and-coming company. The Future of IT and Data In our conversation we discussed the following: A quick overview of VAST Data An exploration in the high-level shifts we are seeing in enter...
Sep 14, 2021•25 min
In today’s episode of The 5G Factor, our newest webcast focused on all things 5G, host Shelly Kramer and fellow analyst Ron Westfall examine the key trends in the 5G market along with 5G-related news of interest. This show focused on some familiar players in the 5G space, including Ericsson, Vodafone, Qualcomm, Nokia, Verizon, as well as a look at what’s happening in the China market as it relates to 5G technology and innovation. Our discussion today addressed: How Ericsson and Vodafone are coll...
Sep 13, 2021•30 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Gerry Nolan, Worldwide Senior Director: HPE Pointnext Operational Services. Gerry is responsible for the team that enables customer support experience to drive digital transformation journeys. Our conversation covered some recent developments from HPE that are designed to meet the needs of customers that have emerged from the pandemic. It’s one you don’t want to miss. Enabling Business Value Through the Five Pillars of...
Sep 08, 2021•23 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer discussed expansion of the Boingo Wireless AWS partnership with Boingo Wireless integrating AWS edge and cloud services with the company’s own converged network offering and its impact on select industry verticals. Their discussion covered: How the Boingo Wireless AWS partnership is using DAS (distributed antenna systems), WiFi, and private networks to improve ...
Sep 03, 2021•4 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine why the Mavenir acquisition of Telestax improves the Mavenir Engage proposition and alters the competitive dynamics of the Communications Platform as a service (CPaaS) market. Their discussion covered: How Mavenir’s 5G and mobile networking expertise can swiftly differentiate the CPaaS capabilities of the Mavenir Engage platform as many of the establish...
Sep 03, 2021•4 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall and examine the key trends in the 5G market assessing the market impact of the AT&T and GM alliance aimed at delivering 5G connectivity to GM cars in three years. Their discussion covered: The market significance of the GM and AT&T partnership that is bringing 5G cellular connectivity to select Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC vehicles by 2024 as well as su...
Sep 03, 2021•10 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall and examine the key trends in the 5G market focusing on recent developments in the Open RAN market segment including the rise of the “Rip and Replace” program in the U.S. Their discussion covered: Why the $1.9 billion U.S. “Rip and Replace” program administered by the FCC is gaining momentum among independent and regional carriers as provisions include the comp...
Sep 03, 2021•8 min
For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall deliberate on why the AT&T partnership with the University of Tennessee is important to advancing mmWave technology development. Their discussion covered: AT&T is installing a 5G test bed using mmWave spectrum at the University of Tennessee as Knoxville, complementing ongoing partnerships with Texas A&M, University of Missouri, and University of Con...
Sep 03, 2021•6 min
In this new episode of The 5G Factor, our newest Futurum Tech Webcast series focused on all things 5G, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall look at key trends in the 5G ecosystem. This includes a look at recent developments in the Open RAN market, and the recently announced partnership between GM and AT&T bringing 5G to select models in the GM fleet, Qualcomm’s pursuit of Veoneer, and the Hyundai/NVIDIA partnership and what this all means for the Automotive industry. They also covered AT&...
Aug 31, 2021•33 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Valerio Filauro , VP, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Our conversation focused on: RFFE, what it is and why it is so important for 5G's successful roll out Why RFFE business a big opportunity for Qualcomm What enabled Qualcomm's competitive positioning among RF leaders? Targets for the RFFE Market share by 2024 Qualcomm's 10 year business vision For more information you can read Senior Analyst Olivier B...
Aug 27, 2021•19 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, I’m joined by Chad Andrews, the Global Leader for Telecom, Media and Entertainment at the IBM Institute for Business Value. Our conversation today focuses on the changes 5G and edge computing will bring to our digital economy, and we also take a look at IBM Institute for Business Value’s recent study The End of Communications Services as We Know Them? That is a bold survey headline, but for those of us in the industry, we know the im...
Aug 19, 2021•50 min
In today’s episode of The 5G Factor, our newest webcast focused on all things 5G, I was joined by my fellow analysts, Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard. Our focus was on the magic that 5G networks provide, and insights on what kind of innovative things companies like Ericsson, Nokia, and AT&T, along with savvy communication services providers (CSPs), are doing with private 5G networks. Our conversation included: An update on what is driving the 5G private market uptake and the overall marke...
Aug 17, 2021•25 min
• Poly’s latest quarterly results and 2022 outlook as we emerge from the pandemic • How the Delta variant may complicate companies’ return to work plans and how collaboration tech needs to evolve as we enter a new era of hybrid work • The need for meeting equality to ensure same virtual meeting experience for those in the room and those who aren’t • Poly’s recent cross-border effort in Baja Mexico to vaccinate 5,000+ maquiladora workers and their family members.
Aug 16, 2021•14 min
In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer discuss Rakuten’s moves in the 5G market and how the company is essentially throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of the CSP ecosystem. In this conversation, we cover the benefits of the early mover advantage for CSPs, along with the implications for the Open RAN segment and the overall 5G market developments of the last week. Some of the things we touched in this 5G-focused webcast included: Why Rakute...
Aug 10, 2021•27 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Women in Tech series, I was thrilled to host Suzanna Keith, Co-Founder and CEO of Hello Career Guru and Co-Founder and CMO, Sonal Rinello for a conversation about the future of work, the current state of the workplace and the tremendous impact that the pandemic has had on employees in general and on women in particular. The Future of Women in the Workplace and How Hello Career Guru Can Help When the pandemic forced most organizations to shift to work...
Aug 05, 2021•38 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer talks with Dell Technologies’ Matt Baker who leads the development and implementation of business and technology strategies for the Infrastructure Solutions Group, about the challenges organizations have with the massive amounts of data they create, collect, and need. They also take a dive into Dell Technologies’ recent research study, The Data Paradox, which is focused on managing data overload in the on-dema...
Aug 04, 2021•35 min
Check out our Deep dive of the week and our Highs, Lows and Unexpecteds from the week in technology. This week we cover: A crazy week of earnings, Contentful, Facebook and the Metaverse, SAS going public, The return of in-person events, how earning beats are leading to share price drops and Vast Dats For this episode of the Futurum Research Weekly Podcast, I am joined by my colleague, fellow analyst ,and founding partner, Daniel Newman, for a conversation about the highs, lows and unexpecteds fr...
Aug 03, 2021•23 min
In this LinkedIn Live episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I’m joined by JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect of Axonify for a conversation about what it takes to prepare your workforce to be resilient in times of disruption — and a lot of that has to do with having the ability to reskill your frontline workforce. If we’ve learned anything in the last year, it’s that our frontline workforce is critical to business operations. Beyond resilience, as it relates to both frontline w...
Aug 03, 2021•42 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Samantha Madrid, Vice President, Security Business & Strategy at Juniper Networks. Our discussion was a timely one centered on the security risks and hacks we’ve seen in the last few months and what CISO’s need to know to be better prepared for the future. Why SASE Need to be a Priority My conversation with Samantha also revolved around the following: An overview of the recent hacks we’ve witnessed How companies ar...
Aug 02, 2021•22 min
On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Patrick Maroney , High Tech Industry Executive Advisor for SAP Industries and Rick Willardson , Director of US Sales at Intel. This is the final episode in a new series — done in partnership with SAP and Intel — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across seven different industries on the state of their industry and how SAP Industry Cloud powered by Intel technology plays a vital role in the fu...
Jul 28, 2021•22 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Jush Danielson, GM Channel Marketing, Retail, Manufacturing & Global Accounts at AT&T. Our discussion centered on the 5G revolution and the new partnership with MxD. The Future of 5G: AT&T’s Partnership with MxD My conversation with Jush also revolved around the following: An overview of digital transformations that happened as a result of of COVID-19 An exploration of the industries that experienced huge g...
Jul 27, 2021•22 min
For this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I am joined by my colleague, fellow analyst, and founding partner, Daniel Newman, for a conversation about the tech announcements from this past week. In this episode, we covered: Daniel went deep on the recent antitrust landscape, in particular the focus on Apple and Google app stores . An overview of Zoom’s acquisition of Five9 and how it will impact the collaboration space. What we can learn from SUSE earnings report . A quick dive into Intel’s la...
Jul 26, 2021•28 min
On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Jennifer Baldwin, Utilities NA Industry Executive Advisor for SAP Industries and Mark Davis, Director, Enterprise Data Management Solutions at Intel. This is the sixth episode in a new series — done in partnership with SAP and Intel — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across seven different industries on the state of their industry and how SAP Industry Cloud powered by Intel technology plays...
Jul 22, 2021•27 min
For this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I am joined by my colleague, fellow analyst ,and founding partner, Shelly Kramer, for a conversation about recent developments in the 5G market including key Mobile World Congress 2021 developments. In this episode, we covered: The expansion of the alliance between Ericsson and Google Cloud and why it improves Ericsson’s 5G proposition and overall partnership momentum in the 5G space. Predictions from the IBM Institute for Business Value on how 5G an...
Jul 16, 2021•23 min
