Futurum Tech Webcast

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Rich Waldron, CEO and Co-Founder of Tray.io for a conversation on the company's mission to deliver the intelligent autonomous enterprise, enabling organizations to composedly, collaboratively, and continuously transform every business process using AI to achieve breakthrough agility and unlock hyper efficient growth.

Their discussion covers:

• An inside look at Tray.io's mission and the challenges that enterprises face when deploying new technologies and integrating them into their current and legacy systems that they depend on every day to run their business

• What Tray.io sees as the key to successful AI implementation

• How Tray.io is approaching intelligent transformation for enterprises, enabling developers, technologists, and teams to collaboratively compose and deliver using AI

To learn more about Tray's perspective on AI and to download The Futurum Group's research report on composable development, click here.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Christophe Van de Weyer, CEO at Telesign for a conversation on the future of digital identity, trust, and AI.

Their discussion covers:

• Recent findings from The Telesign Trust Index, which surveys American consumers about expectations around digital trust

• Recommendations on what enterprises can do in light of the survey's results

• Telesign's position on authentication approaches that go beyond SMS, and how Telesign is supporting more authentication channels, including passwordless solutions

• What Telesign sees as the role of AI in rooting out fraud

• The future state of protecting digital identity as Telesign would like to see it

For more information on Telesign's Trust Index and their long history of partnering with enterprises to help them not only protect themselves but to build trust with their customers, visit the company's website.

On this episode of The AI Moment, we discuss an emerging Gen AI trend: Watermarking & other strategies for licensing AI training data & combating malicious AI generated content.

As we move into year two of Generative AI, some themes have emerged in terms of the downsides to the technology.

Two of the biggest downsides have been:

• Combating malicious or misleading AI-generated content, and

• Copyright/IP rights for both non AI generated and AI generated content

Initiatives by Google, Fox-Polygon, the Content Authenticity Initiative and academic researchers focused primarily on digital watermarking are the latest and most prominent attempts to address these issues. What will the impact of this trend be to enabling or stifling gen AI be?

An Assessment of Key 5G-IoT Ecosystem Developments with a Focus on the HPE $14 Billion Acquisition of Juniper and Its Ecosystem-wide Impact

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall is joined by colleague and fellow analyst, Steven Dickens, for a look at the top 5G developments and what's going on that caught our eye with a laser focus on HPE's game changing $14 billion acquisition of Juniper and why it represents an important inflection point in the industry that can redefine how the 5G ecosystem connects, protects, and analyzes data.

Their conversation focused on:

Overall 5G Ecosystem Impact. The Juniper acquisition is expected to double HPE's networking business, creating a new more formidable networking player with a broader, diversified portfolio that can present customers and partners with a compelling choice to drive business value. The explosion of AI and hybrid cloud-driven business is accelerating demand for secure, unified technology solutions that connect, protect, and analyze the data of organizations from edge to cloud. They assess why they see that combining HPE and Juniper's complementary portfolios can further energize HPE's edge-to-cloud strategy with an ability to lead in an AI-native environment based on a foundational cloud-native architecture. Together, HPE and Juniper can provide customers of all sizes with a complete, secure portfolio that enables the networking architecture necessary to manage and simplify their expanding and increasingly intricate connectivity needs, including certainly 5G.

5G CSP Impact. With the deal, HPE and Juniper anticipate that the benefits extend equally to both communication service provider (CSP) and cloud provide customers, which are very core to Juniper's existing business. Across the CSP ecosystem organizations are building data centers – distributed data centers, centralized data centers. As a result, HPE can build comprehensive data center solutions with complete automation and AI capabilities, extending throughout the CSP segment. For example, we examine how Juniper's RIC and HPE RAN Automation software can bring intelligence and programmability to RAN by enabling third-party applications that can improve service experience, reduce costs, and deliver new business models, especially AI-infused ones. Also, they review how HPE GreenLake and the Juniper Cloud Metro multiservice architecture can deliver assured user experiences across distributed cloud services. Using network slicing, service-aware technologies, and cloud-scale capabilities, CSPs can become better able fulfill user expectations for every service while eliminating the costs and complexity of siloed metro operations.

5G Enterprise Impact: The HPE Aruba and Juniper's Juniper Access Points alongside Juniper Mist Cloud and Mist AI are already widely deployed throughout global Wi-Fi implementations. Plus, with Athonet private wireless assets, HPE and Juniper are strongly positioned to bring private 5G and Wi-Fi together to augment and innovate enterprise connectivity including using HPE GreenLake's edge compute and security/SASE portfolio assets. They explore why HPE attains the portfolio foundation to strongly influence 5G enterprise evolution, including driving private 5G and WiFi services and capabilities, as well as mixed network scenarios, according to enterprise customer priorities.

In this episode of the Infrastructure Matters, host Camberley Bates is joined by Randy Kerns for a look back at 50 years in the data infrastructure business. Randy Kerns started in this industry 50+ years ago and spent time developing systems at IBM, StorageTek, Tandem, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and at ProStor. He has mentored many engineers and analysts, plus helped marketing and sales muddle through messaging and positioning, helping to launch and position successful companies. We walk through what 50 years of changes have looked like, where we are going and hear some advice for the information architects of today.

Topics include:

• Why 50 years in the data storage industry?

• What were the key shifts and changes in the industry during Randy's career?

• How do current industry shifts affect data and information architects, and what advice does Randy have for them to stay relevant?

• What do you expect the impact of AI to be on IT organizations?

• And – come and join us and learn more at the upcoming Information and Data Management Strategies class, April 16 – 17 in Boulder Colorado!

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Tom Godden, Director, AWS Enterprise Strategy for a conversation on the notion that cloud infrastructure is a commodity, the key considerations decision makers should have when choosing a cloud provider for their application, and how AWS has differentiated their capabilities and offerings for the unique needs of their customers.

Their discussion covers:

• What is currently top of mind for AWS's customers regarding the applications that support their businesses

• Why your cloud infrastructure choices matter and how AWS's investments in core infrastructure help address customer challenges

• How AWS's managed services such as serverless can help customers accelerate time to market, reduce TCO and iterate quickly

• How AWS helps customers with their generative AI strategy to transform their applications

• The key considerations for decision makers, including AWS's services, tools, and resources available for builders

For more information, watch the keynotes from AWS re:Invent 2023, visit the AWS for Every Application webpage, and explore AWS training and certification programs on the company's website.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Randy Herold, Chief Information Security Officer & Chief Privacy Officer, ManpowerGroup for a conversation on unifying security and observability and how ManpowerGroup is approaching cyber resilience with Splunk.

Their discussion covers:

• ManpowerGroup's story as a people-driven staffing company that puts over 600,000 associates to work each day

• Why cyber resilience is important, what being resilient means for ManpowerGroup

• ManpowerGroup's journey with Splunk in unifying IT/DevOps teams and Security teams

• What's next on the horizon and the role of AI in maturing cybersecurity practices across industries

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An Assessment of Key 5G-IoT Ecosystem Developments including Open RAN Prospects, Smartphone's New Lead Role in Mobile Shopping, and 6CA Progress

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall is joined by colleague and fellow analyst, Todd R. Weiss, for a look at the top 5G developments and what's going on that caught their eye including the 2023 Open RAN winners and delve into 2024 prospects including Vodafone and DT's plans, Adobe Analytics declaring smartphones the new champion of mobile shopping in the holiday 2023 season, and T-Mobile, Ericsson, and Qualcomm kicking 2024 off with a breakthrough six-carrier aggregation (6CA) test that can deliver improved performance and spectral efficiency across the T-Mobile network in providing a greater 5G user experience.

Their conversation focused on:

Open RAN Ends 2023 with a Flourish. Open RAN is still percolating as it makes progress across the 5G ecosystem, picking up pace in North American and Europe in 2023, and indications are that we should see further deployments of the technology in 2024. In December 2023, AT&T and Ericsson wowed the market with their $14 billion, 5-year Open RAN deal. Notably, Vodafone has been one of the more active operator advocates of Open RAN to date with more to come as the operator confirmed that it is on track with its goal to deploy 2,500 open RAN sites. DT said it plans to operate more than 3,000 O-RAN-compatible antenna sites by the end of 2026. We assess how Open RAN's mobile ecosystem progress in 2023 and sets the table for tangible gains in 2024 and beyond.

Adobe Analytics: Smartphones Lead 2023 Holiday Online Shopping. Adobe Analytics came out with a most interesting take on mobile shopping during the holiday season of 2023. Driven by people shopping on their smartphones, online holiday spending reached a record $221.1 billion over the 2023 holiday season. Mobile shopping surpassed desktop shopping for the first time as spending increased 4.9% from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, compared to the same time last year. Abode Analytics indicated that 51.1% of shoppers confirmed their deals through the smartphone, setting the pace for online purchases. Mobile made up 47.1% of holiday sales in 2022. We explore why the breakthrough of smartphone online shopping represents an event horizon for why retailers need to give top priority to optimizing the smartphone shopping experience.

T-Mobile Pushes Speed Limits with Breakthrough 6CA Test: T-Mobile unveiled its first six-carrier aggregation (6CA), also described as six-component carrier aggregation (6CC), call using sub-6 GHz spectrum on its live production 5G network, describing it as a world first. Collaborating with Ericsson and Qualcomm, T-Mobile reached remarkable speeds above 3.6 Gbps in the test – fast enough, for instance, to download a two-hour HD movie in less than 7 seconds. This follows on T-Mobile announcing in May of 2023 that it was rolling out four component-carrier aggregation across its 5G Standalone network, which it stressed can achieve peak speeds of 3.3 Gbps. We assess why the 6CA milestone can deliver improved performance and spectral efficiency across the T-Mobile network in providing a greater 5G user experience.

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On this episode of The AI Moment, we discuss my picks for 2023 AI Product of the Year, AI Company of the Year

2023 AI Product of the Year, AI Company of the Year: In this time of AI disruption, who has shined? In my view, it was those which are building and delivering pragmatic, enterprise-grade solutions. Those who have been invested in and have understood AI for some time. Those who have clear visions and goals for end results. They are AI innovators. With that in mind I developed a list of companies and products that I felt were the AI innovation leaders of 2023.

In this episode of The Main Scoop™, hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman discuss the importance of observability and generative AI strategies in operations with Cory Minton, Field CTO - Americas at Splunk.

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