Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, The Futurum Group's CEO and Chief Analyst, Daniel Newman, sits down with Michael Swan, VP of HPE Integration, and Jolanta Kisiel, Director of Global Accounts Segment Strategy at HPE Financial Services, to discuss how adopting a new mindset focused on IT asset lifecycle stages may be the key to accelerating success.

Their conversation covers:

• Insights into the current pressures on IT organizations surrounding strategies in managing IT asset lifecycles

• What makes HPE Financial Services unique, and their approach to the IT asset lifecycle

• How customers are managing existing infrastructure amidst all the change and in the face of innovation, including balancing competing internal priorities

• How organizations can expand their sustainability practices and the benefits of doing so, given a recent IDC study showed sustainability is a top 3 decision criteria for 67% of customers when selecting a technology provider

To learn more about HPE Financial Services, and uncovering new IT asset strategies, visit the company's website and download our series of briefs: Uncovering New IT Asset Strategies Hiding in Plain Sight, Building Economic Agility Through All Stages of Tech Lifecycles, Aligning Business Goals with Tech Lifecycles to Accelerate Innovation, and Adapting Tech Lifecycles to Support Sustainability Goals.

Join us as we examine the ongoing journey of innovation, through an insightful look at some iconic products and services, their impressive origins, and today's rapid advancements. In this episode of The Main Scoop™ co-hosts Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko, along with special guest Paulo Carvao, discuss the evolution of modern technologies, keeping pace with customer needs, and the importance of critical thinking to guide the ethical use of data.

In this episode of Enterprising Insights, The Futurum Group's Enterprise Applications Research Director Keith Kirkpatrick discusses the opportunities for SaaS vendors in the mid-market space, delving into key market trends, differences between the enterprise, SMB, and mid-market, and opportunities for vendors seeking to participate in this market. Then, Kirkpatrick will close the show with the Rant or Rave segment.

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Steven Dickens and Krista Macomber share their Mainframe perspectives, along with insights on the latest announcements from NetApp and SK Hynix.

Key topics include:

• A look at the recent SHARE event in Orlando, Florida and what's new in the Mainframe space

• Broadcom's announcement around their Watchtower capability

• The latest announcements from NetApp, including their autonomous ransomware protection (ARP) feature and how AI and ML are driving attack detection capabilities

• SK Hynix's $1B memory investment

• Nutanix's announcement around D2iQ's Kubernetes Platform (DKP)

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the 5G ecosystem as a whole, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow analyst, Olivier Blanchard, for a look at the top 5G semiconductor and device takeaways from our conversations and sessions at Mobile World Congress 2024. The major takeaways we had included Micron's UFS and memory portfolio innovations with the Samsung Galaxy S24 series showcasing new GenAI capabilities, Lenovo's Integrated Edge AI Solution for Telco collaborations with Telefonica and Orange, Lenovo's new ThinkPad and ThinkBook devices including transparent displays, new Mediatek Dimensity 9300 GenAI features, and Qualcomm's portfolio-wide breakthroughs across AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi.

Our analytical review focused on:

Micron Delivers UFS, Memory Advances: Spurs Samsung Galaxy 24 AI Innovation. Micron announced that it is delivering qualification samples of an enhanced version of its Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 4.0 mobile solution with breakthrough proprietary firmware features delivered in an ultra-compact UFS package at 9x13 millimeters (mm). Built on its 232-layer 3D NAND and offering up to 1 terabyte (TB) capacity, the UFS 4.0 solution provides advances in performance that can enable faster and more responsive experiences on flagship smartphones. Samsung is now incorporating Micron's low-power double data rate 5X (LPDDR5X) memory and UFS 4.0 mobile flash storage into select devices in the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, which is introducing AI to mobile users worldwide. The Galaxy S24 series is underpinned by Samsung's suite of generative AI tools, Galaxy AI, which helps amplify experiences from enabling barrier-free communication to maximizing creative freedom. We assess how Micron's LPDDR5X is a mobile-optimized memory distinguished by offering the advanced capabilities of the 1β (1-beta) process node, while Micron's UFS 4.0 offers the performance and power needed to store growing amounts of data in today's AI-driven smartphones.

Lenovo Readies Telcos for Edge AI Renaissance. To support the massive amount of computing moving to the edge, the company is offering Lenovo Integrated Edge AI Solutions for Telco with Lenovo's ecosystem of partners. Highlights include new multi-cloud edge computing architecture with Telefonica tackles mission critical applications for smart cities, making it simple to leverage data throughout city streets in a wide array of AI use cases, including using video analytics and computer vision to identify smoke and fire, support public safety and improve emergency response times. We delve into how Telefonica leveraging its own Telco Cloud with the range of Lenovo ThinkEdge servers and Motorola's push-to-talk technology, and is demonstrating through a proof of concept the capabilities of multi-cloud at the edge, AI, and computer vision to alert public safety officials of danger. The new solution orchestrates the entire edge-to-cloud ecosystem, weaving infrastructure, connectivity, and applications together to support public safety and enhance emergency response with real-time AI.

Plus, at MWC24, Lenovo unveiled and expanded the joint innovation partnership for telecom and cloud services to help Orange Group bring high performance and energy efficiency to telco clients worldwide. We appraise why the alliance can deliver telecom advancement, since Orange and Lenovo are also extending the partnership for three more years and launched a shared Sylva project validation center, addressing telco and edge use cases. The program will cover areas critical for evolving telecommunications infrastructure, including supporting operational efficiency, automation, and new open radio access.

Lenovo Transparently Energizes ThinkBook and ThinkPad Portfolio. On the device side, Lenovo launched brand new ThinkPad and ThinkBook business laptops – unveiling AI features that enhance productivity and efficiency – with performance enhancements and multi-mode versatility. Additionally, Lenovo introduced a selection of accessories designed to boost mobile productivity, including the ThinkVision M14t Gen 2 portable display, a USB-C Slim Travel Dock for comprehensive docking on-the-go, and a redesigned ThinkPad Executive 16-inch Backpack that allows for easy carrying of a mobile office. Rounding out the new hardware announcements are new software solutions, including Lenovo Identity Advisor, a digital identity monitoring tool and Smart Connect, a software that unlocks multi-device synergies. Finally, we review Lenovo showcasing a futuristic proof of concept laptop – the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop Concept – which features the industry's first laptop with a 17.3-inch Micro-LED transparent display, providing a fully borderless and see-through display experience.

Mediatek Density 9300 GenAI: New Capabilities. MediaTek is a global fabless semiconductor firm supporting more than two billion connected edge devices every year, who showcased a series of new Generative AI demos, all of which are using the latest generation of APU hardware featured in the Dimensity 9300 flagship smartphone SoC. The new solution highlights several key Generative AI technologies enabled by MediaTek, including multiple new applications running entirely on-device. We examine the solution's new capabilities such as SDXL Turbo, a text-to-image Stable Diffusion engine that dynamically generates images in real-time, based on user-provided prompts as well as Video Diffusion Generation, which enables fast video diffusion generation, capable of a range of animation styles.

Qualcomm Breaks Ground Across AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi. We saw Qualcomm demonstrating groundbreaking advancements in AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi that can spearhead a new era of intelligent computing everywhere, infusing AI throughout industries, devices, and consumer experiences. By unleashing the potential of AI, the fusion of on-device computing prowess and improved connectivity can empower businesses and individuals to unlock new use cases and applications. At MWC24, Qualcomm showcased on-device AI, intelligent computing, and wireless connectivity products and milestones, poised to accelerate digital transformation, drive a new wave of economic growth, and bring the convergence of AI and connectivity to new regions. We consider why Generative AI is expected to have a broad impact across industries, with estimates that it could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion to the world economy by 2040.

In this episode of Enterprising Insights, The Futurum Group's Enterprise Applications Research Director Keith Kirkpatrick speaks with Kathryn Murphy, Senior VP Product & Design at Twilio, who will discuss customer experience, and in particular, the importance of personalization. The two will also cover the state of artificial intelligence, and how it can best be leveraged not just for personalization, but for smoothing out the customer journey and, in some cases, the employee journey as well.

In this episode of Enterprising Insights, The Futurum Group's Enterprise Applications Research Director Keith Kirkpatrick discusses the benefits and challenges of using text-to-image tools powered by generative AI in an enterprise setting. He delves into the various tools that are available, the need for strong guardrails to protect against misuse, toxicity, and bias, and the challenge of making sure that models and guardrails reflect the real world. Kirkpatrick will also highlight a few notable news items from the enterprise application space, and, as always, will close the show with the Rant or Rave segment.

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Steven Dickens and Krista Macomber review the news coming out of Mobile World Congress, Cohesity Gaia and trending from recent earnings releases.

Key topics include:

• A review of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona covering teleco and broad technology trends such as 5G, edge computing, and private 5G networking.

• Industry leaders such as HPE and Lenovo and a shift towards open-source processes in the network core, with vendors providing server infrastructure and software stacks for edge and private network deployments.

• What is happening with private 5G networks in terms of security concerns and opportunities reflecting on the T-Mobile reporting and other offerings.

• Cohesity's new AI assistant, Gaia, and its potential to enhance data management and analysis capabilities within secondary data infrastructures.

• What we learn from the financial earnings releases from companies like HPE, NetApp, Dell, and Elastic and the growth of AI-optimized technology plus shifts towards consumption models.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, The Futurum Group's Craig Durr talks with Brad Hintze, EVP of Marketing at Crestron, about the evolution of workplace collaboration, focusing on the integration of multi-camera solutions in high-impact rooms to enhance communication and remote participation.

Their discussion covers:

• The shift from 'hybrid work' to what is now considered 'modern work' and its encompassing definition that spans enterprises, education, and government institutions.

• The critical importance of audio and video quality in meetings, where 80% include a virtual participant, highlighting the need for technology that facilitates clear and engaging remote collaboration.

• The challenges and solutions for outfitting various high-impact spaces, factoring in room architecture, meeting types, and the strategic placement of technology to ensure inclusivity.

• Crestron's multi-camera solutions, such as Automate VX, which cater to a spectrum of meeting scenarios, from one-touch experiences to those requiring high-impact, dynamic presentations.

As mentioned in this webcast, you can read more about the research behind this discussion and the Crestron multi-camera options in the Research Brief titled, "Revolutionizing Conference Spaces: Embracing Multi-Camera Solutions for High-Impact Spaces."

You can hear more on this and other relevant hybrid work topics at Crestron's Modern Work Summit taking place March 19th, in Orlando, FL.

In this episode of Enterprising Insights, The Futurum Group's Enterprise Applications Research Director, Keith Kirkpatrick, discusses how enterprise software can be leveraged to balance product demand against CX, using the current challenges in the airline space around carry-on baggage. He delves into the challenge of balancing a wide range of customer preferences and behaviors around a single product or service, and discusses how CX software and systems can be used to address these challenges while improving the CX for customers and maintaining revenue streams. He then closes the show with the "Rant or Rave" segment.