On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Ray Smith, Vice President of Supply Chain at Microsoft, to talk about Microsoft’s latest offering.

Our conversation covers:

• Customer needs and challenges across industries related to supply chain
• Main trends and ‘pain points’ being seen in the market
• How Microsoft is helping their customers mitigate those challenges
• What business outcomes Microsoft Supply Chain solutions can drive to help leaders impact their bottom line
• What sets Microsoft apart from their competitors
• Microsoft’s vision for the future of Supply Chains for global business and the role Microsoft can play

It’s a great conversation, and one you won’t want to miss. To learn more about Microsoft Supply Chain, check out their website here.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman is joined by Shaun McCarthy, President of North American Sales at Nokia, to talk about Nokia’s strategy and what’s ahead for the future.

Their conversation covers:

Shaun’s first impressions in his exciting new role

Key sales and corporate strategies at Nokia

Current market opportunities

What sets Nokia apart from their competitors

Customer impressions and success stories

What’s ahead for Team Nokia

It’s a great conversation, and one you won’t want to miss. To learn more about Nokia, check out their website here.

This episode of The Main Scoop discusses the constantly changing regulatory and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscape and the difficulties organizations face in increasing value for stakeholders. IT leaders must formulate plans to reduce risk and enhance value throughout their companies. Rebecca Levesque, President and Chief Revenue Officer of 21st Century Software, joins Greg and Daniel as they explore the need for a comprehensive approach to address the new factors that influence brand value and trust.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast -- Interview Series, I am joined by Marne Martin, President of Service Management, EAM & Global Industry at IFS, for a conversation about service management in the global market.

Our conversation covers:

• Customer challenges across global markets and different industry sectors
• Key takeaways from their recent IFS Unleashed event
• What is behind the rise in prominence and rapid growth of IFS in service management
• What is holding back a broader adoption of outcome-based contracts & how IFS is accelerating the shift
• How the alignment of asset and service management can inform their offering
• The significance of moment of service for IFS customers

It’s a great conversation, and one you won’t want to miss. To learn more about IFS, check out their website here. 

This episode of The Main Scoop brings forward a new perspective on the efficacy of enterprise technology investments from studying the IT portfolio and performance profiles of over 2,000 organizations.

Joining Greg and Daniel is Dr. Howard Rubin, Founder of Rubin Worldwide and a strategic advisor to many of the world’s largest enterprises and by multiple heads of state. You'll learn how organizations can apply risk and performance-based IT investment principles that maximize business outcomes.

Is your technology investment portfolio optimized to deliver the most value?  Join us to learn more.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Shelly Kramer is joined by Danielle Shields, Head of Sales, Americas and Tim Steward, Principal Data Enterprise Architect for Fujitsu for a conversation on open source software and the value it can deliver, especially when organizations are focused on the speed of innovation. They also took a look at Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres solution and the impact it’s having in the market.

The IT infrastructure landscape has shifted quite a bit in recent years, with an increased understanding of and interest in open source software. In fact, Red Hat’s 2022 The State of Enterprise Open Source research showed that IT leaders are 82% more likely to select a vendor who contributes to the open source community. That said, not everyone is there yet when it comes to understanding the benefits of open source solutions, and challenges and hurdles remain for organizations when considering this shift. What exactly do IT teams need to know? That’s exactly what Danielle, Tim, and Shelly discussed on today’s episode.

Our conversation covered the following:

• What has contributed to the upward trend of IT leaders prioritizing enterprise open source over traditional solutions to meet challenges and build their infrastructure?
• How open source software, where code is freely and widely available, facilitates collaboration, drives innovation, and speeds up the development of new technologies.
• Why companies might opt to work with a proprietary open source solution.
• How integrating an open source software solution into current business environments doesn’t necessarily have to be complicated, and how Fujitsu’s Enterprise Postgres solution helps alleviate apprehensions regarding compatibility and integration.
• What role the team at Fujitsu plays for customers migrating from one database solution to another and what ongoing support is offered.
• How the Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres solution works between vendors using containers and/or hybrid and multi-cloud platforms and what the ease of use/movement looks like.
• What role open source solutions like Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres play in ensuring the latest standards and laws surrounding data security are a top priority
• And speaking of risk, they explored how an open source solution can actually help mitigate risk and provide the security governance large corporations require.

They wrapped the show with Danielle and Tim sharing the key differentiators between the Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres solution and other solutions in the market and where people can go to learn more about this innovative solution.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I’m joined by Susan Sharpe, from Dell Technologies Product Management team, to talk about developments in AIOps software and Dell’s CloudIQ offering.

This was an incredibly timely conversation. Our research shows that IT organizations have long been trying to do more with less, and even more so now given the challenging macroeconomic conditions and ongoing labor shortages and skill shortages. Business environments are scaling, distributing, and getting more complex, and the challenges sometimes seem never-ending. So how do organizations and their IT handle all of this without losing their sanity? This is exactly what Susan and I discussed.

Our conversation covered:

• Dell’s solution to address the challenges to IT leaders and teams today and the role AIOps can play to help alleviate those challenges
• The benefits of proactive monitoring and predictive analytics, which are part of Dell’s Cloud for AIOps offering, and which combines human intelligence of expert engineers with the machine intelligence of AI/ML to provide customers with more insight. Efficiency plus proactivity are key parts of the value prop here, and one portal for visibility throughout the enterprise is also key.
• The value of being able to anticipate business needs rather than always being reactive, and the role CloudIQ can play on that front, providing things like capacity full prediction, capacity forecasting, and capacity anomaly detection, to name a few.
• What the secret sauce is that makes Dell’s CloudIQ different from other infrastructure monitoring and management tools.
• How the Dell CloudIQ solution actually delivers on the “do more with less” front.
• And one of my favorite topics, security. Susan walked us through how Dell’s CloudIQ allows an at-a-glance view of issues across your environment, allowing you to see the most pressing risks, then take quick action. It also features machine learning and predictive AI to help customers zero in on problem areas and assesses whether infrastructure security configurations adhere to policy, identifies problem areas, and recommends actions to keep data safe. I’m going to flat out admit that this is one of my favorite features, hands down.
• Last but never least, Susan shared some thoughts on what’s ahead for Dell CloudIQ and what we can expect moving forward. If you’re exploring AIOps and how they can help you do more with less, this is a conversation you’ll want to make time for.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Shelly Kramer is joined by Carol Wilder, Vice President of Integrated Solutions for Dell Technologies, to talk about the latest in AIOps.

IT teams today are under an immense amount of pressure. They are trying to drive their digital transformation journeys forward, they are trying to simplify their operations in on-prem infrastructure, protecting data in the cloud, dealing with massive amounts of data that is growing at an exponential rate — and they are also focused on ways to do more with less. If you’re in IT, you’re probably nodding along right now. So how do these teams and organizations handle the pressure? That’s exactly what Carol and Shelly discussed.

Our conversation covered:

• An overview of the worldwide AIOps market, which by some estimates will grow to almost $41 billion by 2026.
• Why there is so much demand for AIOps and the benefits it can deliver to IT teams as well as how AIOps differs from legacy IT tools.
• Where Dell’s AIOps offering fits into the marketplace, as well as some of the benefits customers can experience which include, improved performance and availability of critical business applications, reduced time from problem detection to resolution, predictive analytics, optimized system performance, and cost savings.
• The value of being able to anticipate issues rather reacting to issues.
• Carol walked Shelly through what the future of AIOps holds and shared her thoughts on what IT teams can expect moving forward in terms of features and capabilities.
• Last but never least, Carol shared some thoughts on the future for Dell CloudIQ, their AIOps offering.

If you’re ready to relieve some of the burden and pressure on your IT team, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss. 

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum principal analyst Daniel Newman is at CES 2023 and joined by Durga Malladi, Qualcomm's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Modem and Infrastructure at Qualcomm. Their conversation covers:

• The company's introduction of Snapdragon Satellite, the first satellite-based solution capable of two-way messaging
• Where Qualcomm is headed as they enter year four of 5G
• Qualcomm's diversification beyond smartphones into IoT, AI, wearables, XR, and automotive
• and much more!

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum principal analyst Daniel Newman is joined by Intel’s Kavitha Prasad for a conversation on the expansion of AI and how Intel’s CPU architecture provides adequate infrastructure for this rapidly developing market niche.

This webcast is sponsored by Intel.