In today’s episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts Series, I’m joined by Dell Technologies’ John Boyle and Rick Martinez. John is a cybersecurity and supply chain defense product manager and Rick is a senior distinguished engineer and a senior director at Dell. Our conversation today revolved around the current state of the cybersecurity industry, supply chain attacks, fed policy and orders, why zero trust is a thing these days, and more. Some highlights of the discussion with ...
Nov 03, 2021•40 min
In this video research note from The 5G Factor webcast series, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall unpack the recently announced partnership between Samsung and Ciena and the value that’s intended to deliver for telecom operators looking to scale and evolve their networks to support the proliferation of 5G.
Nov 02, 2021•5 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, The 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover 5G industry news, announcements coming out of this week’s MWC event, along with news about how 5G is being used in stadiums to power better fan experiences. They also cover recently announced partnerships, including those between Samsung and Ciena, Nothing and Qualcomm, IBM and Cisco/Palo Alto Networks and Rakuten/Intel and Juniper, then wrap with a short overview of the sessions Shel...
Nov 02, 2021•33 min
In an attempt to distance itself from negative publicity while putting in place a new corporate structure better suited for the future, Facebook has rebranded and restructured itself into a new parent company, Meta, and a suite of individuals brands. In this edition of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Fred McClimans, Olivier Blanchard, Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens take a look at what this means for the future of Meta’s Metaverse.
Nov 02, 2021•48 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Malcolm Ferguson, Distinguished Technologist at HPE and Scott Thomson, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Specialist for conversation around cloud strategies and why colocation is making more sense these days. A Colocation Cloud Journey: Exploring the Acceleration of Colocation Strategies In our conversation we discussed the following: How the pandemic has impacted cloud strategies The trends driving the acceleration of sou...
Oct 29, 2021•29 min
In this LinkedIn Live episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast — Interview Series, I’m joined by James Riseman , Director of Product Marketing for Treasure Data for an extremely timely conversation about the value Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) can bring to teams outside of sales and marketing. CDPs have quickly become an integral part of MarTech stacks, connecting customer data from multiple touchpoints like social media, websites, in-store, and others. Yet the data that is collected and managed wit...
Oct 29, 2021•36 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, sponsored by Intel, I am joined by Rebecca Weekly, Vice President, General Manager, and Senior Principal Engineer of Hyperscale Strategy and Execution at Intel Corporation for conversation around system and software advances for cloud at scale. We also explored her keynote presentation from Intel InnovatiON 2021. Live from Intel InnovatiON: Elevate Your Cloud With Rebecca Weekly In our conversation we discussed the following: Challe...
Oct 29, 2021•38 min
In this short episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I talk with Jim Elliott , Corporate SVP of Memory Sales for Samsung about the colleges and universities who will be participating in Samsung Tech Day 2021 on November 15, 2021 and some of the subject matter they will be covering. The conversation highlighted: The schools who are participating in Tech Day including MIT, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon and UC Santa Cruz MIT’s session on flash and storage accelerators UC Santa Cruz’s session on leading edge ...
Oct 28, 2021•4 min
In this short episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I sit down with Jim Elliott , Corporate SVP of Memory Sales for Samsung to discuss what customer collaboration stories we might hear at Samsung Tech Day 2021 on November 15, 2021. The conversation covered: How Samsung and its partners are pushing performance barriers across memory, CPUs, and the overall semiconductor industry. How much pressure the IT community has been under due in large part to the digital transformations experienced during th...
Oct 28, 2021•3 min
In this short episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I talk with Jim Elliott , Corporate SVP of Memory Sales for Samsung about the technology showcases that attendees can expect to experience at Samsung Tech Day 2021 on November 15, 2021. The conversation highlighted: The 10 technology showcases covering disaggregated storage, memory workloads, networking interfaces, and CXLs just to name a few. How Samsung plans to partner with customers to address the industry challenges that they are seeing wit...
Oct 28, 2021•2 min
In this short episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I sit down with Jim Elliott , Corporate SVP of Memory Sales for Samsung to explore some key sessions to look forward to during Samsung Tech Day 2021 on November 15, 2021 and what attendees can expect to walk away with. The conversation highlighted: The opening keynote by Memory Business President Jung-Bae Lee Presentations from leaders of Samsung’s solutions groups A keynote session from EVP of Sales and Marketing Jinman Han about what is poweri...
Oct 28, 2021•2 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Mounir Hahad, Head of Juniper Threat Labs at Juniper Networks, for a timely conversation about the current state of our threat landscape, which is as Mounir said, “Gloomy with a chance of ransomware,” as well as what businesses need to do to protect themselves. Understanding our Current Cybersecurity Threat Landscape In our conversation we discussed the following: How Juniper Threat Labs builds models to assess the cur...
Oct 28, 2021•30 min
On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Jim Elliott, Corporate SVP of Memory Sales for Samsung, for an exciting conversation about Samsung’s upcoming Tech Day 2021. This virtual event will showcase how Samsung Semiconductor is powering innovative experiences across the tech ecosystem with memory innovations. Samsung Tech Day 2021: Powering Experiences with Memory Innovations In our conversation we discussed the following: The origins of Tech Day What...
Oct 27, 2021•15 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, I’m joined by Benoit Hardy-Vallee, AVP, Talent Experience Strategy at Phenom and his colleague Ajay Patel, Vice President, Global Head of Join at Straumann Group for a conversation about the importance of focusing on the candidate experience as well as employee experience in today’s job market. We are seeing people leave jobs in droves, millions still looking for work, and employers reporting acute labor shortages. Coupled with chang...
Oct 27, 2021•48 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 assess Nokia’s introduction of FP5, its fifth generation of high-performance IP routing silicon that targets enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to provide greater and enhanced protection against escalating network security threats as well as efficiently scale network capacity and enable new higher speed 5G and IP services. Their conversation empha...
Oct 22, 2021•12 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 explore the mobile ecosystem implications of UK-based Vodafone’s preparing to announce the largest IoT airtime supply deal outside of China, encompassing millions of NB-IoT connections. Their discussion highlighted: The deal, with a yet unnamed manufacturer, breaks the million-mark threshold on connection volume, and it’s the beginning of what they see as large...
Oct 21, 2021•6 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 DISH Network’s selection of IBM to help automate what it is promoting as the first greenfield cloud-native 5G network in the United States. Their conversation focused on: IBM’ crucial role in providing the intent-based orchestration and AI-enabled automation capabilities across DISH’s multi-vendor and multi-layer cloud native 5G network, now consisting ...
Oct 18, 2021•3 min
In this Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum Lead Analyst Shelly Kramer sits down with Dirk Häußermann of ATOSS for a conversation on the difference workforce management solutions can make for organizations looking to improve the employee experience.
Oct 15, 2021•24 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 explore the collaboration of IBM Global Business Services with Telefonica to modernize Telefonica’s 5G core network platform built with IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation, Red Hat OpenShift, and Juniper Networks Apstra and QFX technology as well as DISH Network’s selection of IBM to help automate what the company is touting as the United States’ first greenfi...
Oct 14, 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 assess why the Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Samsung demonstration that confirmed end-to-end network slicing can work specifically for gaming applications is integral to advancing 5G monetization and use case networking objectives.
Oct 14, 2021•6 min
In this excerpt from our Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts Series, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans explore the Twitch hack and why a massive hack of this nature is a nightmare for infosec community — and should be a wakeup call as it relates to the primacy of network security.
Oct 13, 2021•10 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans cover the goings on in the world of cybersecurity. This week’s conversation includes the Facebook outage and (unrelated) claims of scraped data from 1.5 billion Facebook users available in a hacker forum, as well as a deep dive into the deets on the Twitch hack. They also covered the Syniverse hack that provided access to millions of text messages and customer information for a per...
Oct 13, 2021•47 min
In this episode of Futurum newest webcast series, The 5G Factor, I’m joined by my colleague and fellow analyst Ron Westfall to explore and break down some of the most exciting news, trends, and partnerships in the 5G ecosystem. In this week’s episode we covered some exciting 5G news, including: The future of cloud gaming — it’s powered by 5G. The future of cloud gaming is exciting, especially when powered by 5G end-to-end network slicing, which is revolutionizing cloud gaming services. We explor...
Oct 12, 2021•32 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, my guest John Bruno, the VP of Strategy for PROS, and I are having a conversation about the ever-changing state of B2B commerce. Today’s business customers are expecting more and more from companies in terms of not just product quality, but also customer experience. And a large part of customer experience is providing compelling offers in a way that is fast, consistent, easy, and transparent, and offering relevant prices to make the ...
Sep 30, 2021•33 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 a report from Vodafone and WPI Economics advocating on the UK government to accelerate the deployment of 5G and IoT technology to help meet zero emission goals by 2050. Their discussion covered: The shrewd timing of Vodafone lobbying the UK government to advance nationwide sustainability goals after working with Ericsson to improve 5G network efficiency...
Sep 24, 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 explore Nokia’s digital twin technology and its potential to significantly boost European communications service providers (CSPs) a significant revenue boost. Their discussion covered: Why digital twin technology is gaining broader market acceptance and is directly applicable to 5G network design and builds. The role of Nokia’s digital twin solution for augment...
Sep 24, 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 Amdocs supplying the business support systems, including 5G monetization capabilities, for what Orange is touting as Europe’s first 5G SA end-to-end experimental cloud network being built out in France. Their discussion covered: Why Orange promoting its 5G SA network development as an experimental cloud network is a shrewd marketing move that aligns wit...
Sep 24, 2021•7 min
In this vignette from a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, part of The 5G Factor series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) establishment of SpectrumX, a new center for wireless spectrum research in the U.S. The NSF has earmarked $25 million over the course of the next 5 years for research. They’re focused on developing new ways of sharing and managing radio airwaves, which of course is a finite resource. This is crucial research beca...
Sep 23, 2021•6 min
In this episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Research production, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss AT&T’s partnership with the U.S. Military in a three-year R&D agreement focused on 5G experiments with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), the Department of the Navy’s applied research university.
Sep 22, 2021•7 min
In this Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum Lead Analyst Shelly Kramer sits down with Gunter Appel and Jan Klockgeter of aconso for a conversation on digitizing HR documents and the difference this can make for enterprise organizations.
Sep 22, 2021•42 min
