Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of Good Equals Progress, our webcast focusing on all things sustainability and beyond, I'm joined by Jeff Harvey, Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Industry Cloud/SAP Customer Success at SAP, for a fascinating and timely conversation about carbon emissions reduction.

Organizations of all sizes have felt increasing pressure from consumers and regulatory bodies to slash carbon emissions. Many have made pledges to get to net zero carbon by 2050, which is great. The challenge here is that it's not at all clear — for most organizations, anyway — as to exactly how to go about about achieving those goals. One of the biggest challenges is around data: what data does it take to accurately define carbon emissions and what technology solutions can help? That's just what Jeff and I discussed, so if this is something that's on your mind, this is a conversation you'll want to tune in to.

Our conversation covered:

• The current state of the carbon emissions, including how much carbon organizations are emitting each year and what the long-term impact that we will likely see as a result. We explored data from the UN Emissions Gap Report that found that organizations need to reduce emissions by 55 percent by 2030 to stay within the target of a 1.5°C global temperature increase. The unfortunate part? Organizations haven't done enough yet and temperatures are expected to climb 2.7°C.
• We explored the goals organizations have set for 2050 and why we still haven't seen much action.
• We discussed the many moving parts of carbon emissions reduction and reporting and highlighted the key areas businesses should be focusing on.
• We also discussed what SAP is doing to help customers measure and report their carbon emissions. Jeff provided insights on what his team is doing to ensure SAP meets its own sustainability goals as well.

Jeff shared details about how some of SAP's Partners are addressing sustainability needs and some of the innovative solutions that are available in the SAP store, including the following:

• Carbon.AIs by VASPP
• Digital Shoe Size Consultant by Footprint Technologies
• EcoVadis Supplier Sustainability Ratings
• Carbon Footprint Data for Chemicals and Plastics by Carbon Minds

You can find more information on SAP's wide range of sustainability related offerings at the SAP store, and I hope you'll pop over and explore. You'll be amazed at what's available to help your organization achieve your sustainability and carbon emissions reductions goals.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, our conversation today centers on an increasingly relevant topic operational resiliency, operational efficiency, and sustainability.

We all know that organizations today are dealing with a number of disruptions. From the supply chain to staffing, we are seeing an increased need for resiliency, or the ability to adapt to continue meet expectations. We are also seeing an increased need for greater operational efficiency, or the ability to do more with less. As if those pressures weren't enough, many organizations are beginning to develop sustainability initiatives. They are trying to do more, with less, without impacting the next generation.

My guest today is Mike Denley, Senior Director, Portfolio Management at Siemens Digital Industries Software, who joins me to discuss the challenges facing organizations today, and what Siemens is doing, specifically as it relates to Siemens Industry Software, to help them achieve their goals.

Our conversation centered on the following:

• An overview of what operational resiliency, operational efficiency and sustainability mean for today's organizations.
• An exploration into how the IIoT fits into all of this.
• The connection between data, the IIoT and resiliency.
• An overview of how IIoT, data nalytics, and digital twins help improve operational efficiencies and sustainability
• A look into how Siemens is helping customers navigate the challenges in today's workplace

This was a great conversation and one you don't want to miss.

If you would like to learn more about Siemens MindSphere, you can get more information here.

On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by John Mertic, Director, Open Mainframe Project to discuss how fundamental "open" approaches are to growing business, and innovating with technologies across platform ecosystems. They also provide insights and reveal what's going on with open mainframe projects, how organizations are generating new value, and what the future of open looks like. Our conversation also covered the following:

• A dive into an "open first" approach and how this strategy is the best to modernize the mainframe
• A look into the business drivers that are changing the platform ecosystem
• An overview of the Linux Foundation and the Open Mainframe project

It was a great conversation and one you don't want to miss. Like what you've heard? Check out Episode One of The Main Scoop and Episode Two of the Main Scoop, and be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode of The Main Scoop series.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Nakul Duggal, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Automotive for Qualcomm to talk about Qualcomm's first ever Automotive Investor Day, which was held last week in New York City.

In our conversation we discussed the following:

• An exploration into why Qualcomm decided to host an Automotive specific investor day
• What is driving Qualcomm's momentum and the opportunities in the automotive space
• A look into Qualcomm's road map for the future

Qualcomm has made some significant inroads in the automotive space, growing their design pipeline from $19 million to $30 million in two months. And it's clear that the semiconductor company is not done yet. This is one conversation you don't want to miss.

If you want to learn more about Qualcomm's Automotive Investor Day, check out our coverage here.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Ashley Still, Senior Vice President Digital Media/Marketing, Strategy & Partnerships for Adobe. Our conversation takes a look at Adobe's acquisition of Figma, which was announced earlier this month.

In our conversation we discussed the following:

• Why Figma will be an excellent addition to the Adobe Creative Suite
• What this move will mean for competition in the design space
• A look into the financial aspects of the deal
• What benefits customers can expect to see from Adobe and Figma

During the conversation, Ashley also shared more about Adobe's new idea of "ushering in a new era of collaborative creativity on the web." It was a great conversation and one you don't want to miss.

If you want to learn more about the acquisition, check out our coverage here.

In this episode of Good Equals Progress, a Futurum Research webcast focusing on all things sustainability and beyond, Shelly Kramer, principal analyst and founding partner at Futurum is joined by junior analyst and colleague Lauren Kirkpatrick, to talk about Amazon.

This was a big week for Amazon and sustainability initiatives, alliances, and announcements, and we touched on some of them. For starters, Climate Week – it's billed as the biggest climate event on Earth and is all about driving climate action, fast.

Amazon was both a sponsor and a participant at the Climate Week 2022 event held in NYC this week in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly. The event brought together a fantastic collection of brilliant and passionate global experts from the climate community, the world of business, government, and beyond and the focus of the event was "Getting It Done" — driving climate action fast, because it's not exactly like we have any time to waste.

Our webcast covers the following hot topics:

• The Climate Pledge, which Amazon co-founded with Global Optimism in 2019, now boasts more than 375 signatories which include Impossible include Impossible Foods, the Seattle Storm (4-time WNBA champs), and adventure gear brand Cotopaxi. American Family Insurance, Figma, HPE, Prologis, Ripple, the Seattle Aquarium and more. 375 companies, across 53 industries and 34 countries and growing.
• Amazon Water.org partnership announced. Amazon announced a partnership with Water.org to provide safe water to 100 million people.
• Amazon expands renewable energy projects. Amazon announced 69 new renewable energy projects, bringing the total to 377 renewables projects around the world, up from 310 projects in April. These new projects include the expansion of its renewable energy investments, including the first renewable projects in South America, India, and Poland.
• Amazon Partners with Infinium. Amazon announced a new agreement with Infinium, one of the green energy companies funded by The Climate Pledge Fund, to build a commercial electrofuels production facility — the first of its kind. Amazon intends to use the ultra-low carbon electrofuels in its diesel cargo trucks beginning with pilot programs in 2023.

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, we tackle the topic of why hardware security module (HSM) adapter technology, including HSM-as-a-service, is vital to ensuring general purpose and payment processing security across today's multi-cloud environments. Marvell's introduction of its LiquidSecurity 2 (LS2) solution builds upon the company's well-established portfolio which is already proven at scale throughout the world's largest hyperscale clouds. The new Marvell LS2 is designed to empower hyperscalers and cloud providers to develop HSM-as-a-service for secure key management, authentication, and encryption across a wide array of industry verticals.

My guest today is Amer Haider, VP Product Management Security Solutions Business Unit at Marvell Technologies, a top-tier semiconductor company. Amer is a new guest on this show, and shrewdly shares his insights and perspective on the direction of the HSM market segment and its vital role across multi-cloud environments.

For the foundation of our discussion, we addressed what is HSM technology, its origins, and why it provides essential encryption, key management, and authentication capabilities throughout today's hyperscaler networks. From our perspective, HSM implementations are moving beyond on-premise implementations to hyperscaler and hybrid clouds.

Today, Marvell's LS2 solution offers the high-performing cryptographic acceleration and processing, FIPS certification, including hardware-secured storage of up to one million encryption keys for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), RSA, and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) encryption, and 45 partitions, key to enabling robust multi-tenant use cases and boosting HSM adoption across multi-cloud environments.

Our conversation focused on the following:

• The invention of HSMs by Dr. Mohamed Atalia in 1972 and why HSMs are more secure than software, especially in keeping your keys safe.
• The biggest users of HSMs including especially include banks that use them for credit card purchases to assure secure transactions including user and merchant information.
• The challenges involved in broadening the adoption of HSMs including considerations such as encryption inertia (taking security for granted), costs of legacy on-premise implementations, and regulations related to data breaches.
• We examined how Marvell's taking HSM to the cloud, i.e., HSMaaS, benefits the entire security ecosystem by lowering costs, expanding the market to include more SMB encryption support, and giving cloud service providers new revenue streams.
• How the Marvell LS2 solution builds on the success of the initial LiquidSecurity portfolio by providing advances such as delivering up to 120K ECC operations per second, tenfold increase in keys supported, and substantially lowering costs per key stored and per partition.
• How Marvell takes advantage of improvements in processing power to ease HSM adoption in clouds and key use case examples of how decision makers are using new LS2 capabilities to make the world a more secure place.

In this episode of The 5G Factor, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow analyst Ron Westfall to talk all things 5G. News, alliances, lawsuits, and new hires — there's always a lot going on in the 5G ecosystem and that's what this show is designed to cover.

In this episode, we cover the following:

• Lumen's new CEO Kate Johnson comes to the job with serious chops and serious challenges ahead.
• Mavenir got the thumbs up from Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Hötteges' move to "work towards a Chinese-free core network infrastructure" replacing Huawei in DT's core.
• Starlink fights back against the FCC's recent decision to deny the company $885.5 million in funding under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).
• T-Mobile and SpaceX's Starlink partner to leverage Starlink's low Earth orbit satellits combined with the power of T-Mobile's wireless network to solve connectivity issues where most needed.
• Following Apple's 'Far Out' event last week announcing the newest iPhone 14 and iWatch models, T-Mobile launched some pretty 'far out' deals of its own.

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series I am joined by Ed Abbo, President and Chief Technology Officer at C3 AI. Our conversation centers around AI applications, how these programs can help enterprise customers find value from their data, and much more you won't want to miss.

In our conversation we discussed the following:

• A broad overview of enterprise applications and enterprise AI-based applications
• A deep dive into the expansion of C3 AI's partnership with Google
• A look into C3 AI's broad portfolio of solutions
• An exploration of the current economic situation and the economic value AI applications can bring to customers

During the conversation, Ed also shared a customer success story about the US Air Force's Rapid Sustainment Office. You can check out the full video that Ed referred to here.

If you'd like to learn more about C3 AI, check out their website here.

In this episode of Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum Research Senior Analyst and VP of Sales Steven Dickens talks with Broadcom's Distinguished Engineer Russ Teubner and Peter Wassal, Director, DevOps & Open Mainframe Solutions, during the SHARE Conference in Columbus. Their conversation covered Broadcom's acquisition of Hostbridge Technology and how it fits into the company's overall technology roadmap.

To learn more about Broadcom visit their website.