Futurum Tech Webcast

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 current landscape
• What the biggest current threat is to organizations
• How Juniper is translating its threat detection to actionable insights for its customers
• Advice for security officers on how to deal with our current landscape

This is an excellent conversation about security threats that can impact businesses of any size so it's one that you don't want to miss.

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 to expect from Tech Day 2021
• An overview of some of the speakers and their subjects
• The benefit of a virtual conference.

If you're interested in attending Samsung Tech Day 2021 be sure to register here. It's sure to be an event you don't want to miss. You can also check out the full episode below for a complete teaser of what's to come.

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 changes in how and where people work, this is all adding up to be a job market like we've never seen before. So where do employers go from here? Is there a secret recipe they need to follow to fill their open roles and retain employees?

That's exactly what we explored in this conversation. Together, with my extremely knowledgeable guests, we dove into the world of talent experience management and the new approaches businesses can take to make sure candidates find the right jobs, employees are able to grow in their current positions, recruiters are productive, and management meets their goals.

Some Background on Phenom

Phenom is a global HR Tech company with a decade of experience using technology to connect every interaction across the talent experience spectrum. Their Talent Experience Management platform easily connects with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting which is used by thousands of companies across the globe.

Talent Experience Management is Critical For Organizations

Talent experience, which covers candidate experience, employee experience and the HR experience, has never been more important than it is today. Our conversation covered how the pandemic has shifted how businesses recruit and retain employees. businesses have shifted in the last year to respond to the changes caused by the pandemic. Benoit and Ajay shared why focusing on the holistic talent experience can have a big impact across the organization.

Our discussion also covered the following:

• The impact the pandemic and "The Great Resignation" are having on talent retention
• The roadblocks customers experience when trying to improve their candidate experience
• The companies that can benefit most from Talent Experience Management
• New developments that are on the horizon for Phenom

If your organization is looking to improve the full talent experience, be sure to check out Phenom's Talent Experience Management platform, available now on SAP Store. Also be sure to check out our full conversation, I promise it's one you don't want to miss.

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 emphasized:

• The urgency of solving the DDoS security challenge since between 2019 and 2020 the number of DDoS attacks grew by 154%.
• Why the FP5's ability to deliver integrated line rate encryption for L2/L3 network services is integral to fulfilling CSP security objectives especially across the IP network security domain.
• How Nokia bringing 800GE routing interfaces for service provider applications to market advances the ability of data centers to scale rapidly expanding workloads and supporting new applications and it is not too soon to consider 800G capabilities.
• The Nokia's FP5 network processors support of driving down power consumption per bit by 75% shows that CSPs do not need to trade-off energy efficiency and sustainability objectives in strengthening their network security implementations.

Shelly and Ron concluded that the FP5 silicon solutions bolsters Nokia's competitive prospects in the Routed Optical Networking market segment and advances CSP prioritization of safeguarding their networks on a comprehensive basis.

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 OEMs coming to market, and this is purportedly the first market to be built only for IoT.
• How the viability and ultimate success of the Vodaone NB-IoT network is predicated on solving the billing, roaming, and interoperability issues that have stymied prior CSP cellular IoT service rollouts.
• Vodafone's NB-IoT addresses 55 in-network market segments with the potential to reach over 180 segments.
• The current Vodafone offering uses LTE capabilities although 5G can potentially make the NB-IoT service more suitable for emerging use cases related to transportation, fleet management, and warehousing.

Shelly and Ron concur that the Vodafone NB-IoT network is a breakthrough for confirming CSP ability to offer and manage massive IoT services and that Vodafone's €12.99 deal for 10 years of NB-IoT airtime is a tremendous value.

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 of at least 30 named suppliers.
• The DISH collaboration with IBM accentuates that AI-powered automation and network orchestration software and services is essential to enabling 5G network orchestration and key 5G capabilities such as network slicing.
• Through IBM's Cloud Pak for Network Automation solution, DISH aims to use intent-based orchestration capabilities to efficiently synthesize hardware and software resources that enable the network slicing that is key to the creation and delivery of new services such as use case specific network slices.
• Why IBM's AI and orchestration assets are so well-suited for fulfilling the major interworking and integration challenges of the DISH cloud-native 5G network architecture and deployment.

Ron and Shelly see the DISH deal as the CSP validation needed to boost IBM's overall 5G ecosystem credentials and fulfilling customer-specific and vertical-specific needs through AI, orchestration, and network slicing innovation.

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.

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 greenfield cloud-native 5G network.

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.

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.