Futurum Tech Webcast

In this video vignette from a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , I'm joined by my colleague here at Futurum Steven Dickens for a conversation around IBM's hybrid cloud ambitions, which are clearly the driver behind IBM's latest announced acquisition, this time of BoxBoat , and the company's preparation for a post-Kyndryl spinoff. BoxBoat , while small, is known as an enterprise Kubernete...

For this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast I am joined by my colleague, fellow analyst and our VP of business development, Steven Dickens, for a conversation about happenings this week in the tech world. In this episode, we covered: The leadership change at IBM this past week, with widely presumed heir apparent President Jim Whitehurst stepping down, clearly cementing IBM's CEO and board chair A...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by David Dobso n, Global Industry Director Retail, Hospitality, & Consumer Goods at Intel and John Buckley , Consumer Products Industry Advisor for SAP. This is the second episode in a new series — done in partnership with SAP and Intel — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across seven different i...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Tom Madonna , an Industry Advisor for the Automotive Industry at SAP. This is the first episode in a new series — done in partnership with SAP — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across seven different industries on the state of their industry and how SAP Industry Cloud plays a vital role in the futur...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Caroline Chan, Vice President, Data Platforms Group and General Manager, Network Business Incubator Division. She is responsible for driving advanced technology solutions that are enabled and accelerated by 5G capabilities. We had an exciting conversation about the key announcements made during Mobile World Congress 2021...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow analyst Fred McClimans, for a conversation about the goings on in the world of cybersecurity. Our conversation covered: Storage drive maker Western Digital tells owners of its WD My Book Live and My Book Live Duo to disconnect from the internet immediately. What's the responsibility of a...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Durga Malladi , Senior Vice President and General Manager, 5G, Mobile Broadband and Infrastructure for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. for an exciting conversation about the key announcements made during Mobile World Congress 2021.   Qualcomm's Key Announcements at MWC 2021   In our conversation we discussed the following:  ...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, my colleague Olivier Blanchard and I engage in a drill-down conversation around the five new antitrust bills congress brought forward last week aimed at Big Tech, and what the likely ramifications are for reach. Our discussion examined: The Ending Platform Monopolies Act which proposes that Congress can have the ability to break up a company "when the c...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , Futurum's Shelly Kramer and Shelly Steven webcast cover announcements of note coming out of HPE's HPE Discover event held this past week. Their conversation included analysis and insights about: HPE's announcement of the company's vertical optimization of its GreenLake cloud services , which are primarily focused on Financial Services, Healthcare, and...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Chris Eidler , Vice President and GM of HPE GreenLake Lighthouse and Flynn Maloy , Vice President for HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Marketing for an exciting conversation about some of the announcements made during HPE Discover.   HPE Discover took place June 22-24, featuring three jam-packed days full of insights and ann...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Ian Pratt , Global Head of Security, Personal Systems for HP, Inc. He leads the business unit responsible for creating the endpoint security solutions that are deployed on millions of machines across the globe.   Our discussion centered on the critical nature of endpoint security in today's business world and some exciti...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by guests from Qualcomm, UScellular and Nokia to discuss big news with 5G millimeter wave.   My guests include: Narothum Saxena , Vice President of Technology, Strategy and Architecture for UScellular; Randy Cox , Head of Product Management, Small Cells and 5G mmWave at Nokia; Gautum Sheoran , Senior Director of Pro...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Esam Elashmawi , Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer for Lattice Semiconductor. Lattice is a leader in building small, powerful, efficient FPGAs that are used across all end markets and critical infrastructure.   Our discussion centered on their recent Investor Day and the impressive announcements that are defining the...

Futurum's Fred McClimans and Ron Westfall analyze the ongoing crisis in the global semiconductor supply chain and its impact across key industries such as the automotive, telecommunications, and medical equipment verticals. They discussed the reasons for the constraints in the chip supply and what actions the U.S. government is taking in response to the crisis. Plus, they address the moves being m...

Futurum's Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the value assigned by CSP decision makers to cloud design principles in fulfilling their cloud BSS journey goals. We discussed the top three cloud design principles and how each of the principles are integral to advancing CSP BSS-to-cloud journeys.  

We discuss key takeaways from our recent survey and research report, 'The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain" done in partnership with Ericsson. We discussed the strategic commitment of CSPs to a multi-cloud strategy, the competitive advantages that each of the major cloud providers offer, and which cloud design principles are CSPs identifying as the most impo...

Colonial Pipeline rapidly paid ransomware provider DarkSide $5 billion Bitcoin to unlock and restore its IT systems, but this ransomware attack exposed a glaring weakness in critical infrastructure security: the IT/OT issue. Futurum is an independent research, analysis, and advisory firm focused on digital innovation, market-disrupting technologies, and industry trends. Every day our analysts, res...

The US Department of Justice recently revealed it had completed an operation, authorized under a court order, where the FBI electronically accessed privately-owned Microsoft Exchange servers to fix vulnerabilities exploited by Hafnium, a suspected state-sponsored group operating out of China. Futurum is an independent research, analysis, and advisory firm focused on digital innovation, market-disr...

There has been yet another DarkSide attack, this time on a subsidiary of Toshiba's European operations. The company reported that as a result of the attack, they shut down network connections between Europe and Japan to mitigate potential risk as the hack is being investigated, and the scope of the cyberattack is not yet known. Futurum is an independent research, analysis, and advisory firm focuse...

The News: Reuters reported on May 13, 2020 that Ireland's health service announced it was completely shutting down all IT after experiencing a "significant" ransomware attack. This attack was blamed on threat actors targeting healthcare records. This attack has completely shut down COVID-19 testing, has forced hospitals to cancel not urgent appointments, and shut down diagnostic services.   More f...

The News: The Biden administration signed an executive order on Wednesday, May 12, 2020 aimed at hardening the Federal government's cybersecurity cybersecurity defenses following the Colonial Pipeline hack. More at CNBC. Biden Administration Signs Executive Order Aimed at Hardening Fed Cybersecurity Defenses Analyst Take: The executive order signed by President Biden directs the Commerce Departmen...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, my colleague Fred McClimans and I cover major happenings in the world of cybersecurity over the course of the past week. Our discussion centered on: The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack and the targeting by threat actor DarkSide of the IT system housing Colonial's corporate and business data. This is a prime example of how targ...

The News: Enterprise Password manager Passwordstate, an Australian-based enterprise password management app offered by Click Studios alerted customers late last week of a breach that the company said occurred between April 20 and 22nd.  Read the advisory from Click Studios here . Enterprise Password Manager Passwordstate Hacked in Supply Chain Attack Analyst Take:   The compromise of Click Studios...

The News:   A joint advisory was published on Friday, May 7, 2021 by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, the FBI, and the NSA focused on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and their tactics, techniques and procedures used to target victims. These reports focus on threats posted by APT29, how its methods have evolved, and pr...

The News: Peloton's leaky API, which exposed private user data, was in the news alongside some other not-so-great news for the fitness brand this last week. The leaky API was first reported by Tech Crunch's Zach Whittaker, and you can read his story here . Analyst Take: It has most definitely not been a great few weeks for Peloton. With the recall of all Peloton Tread and Tread+ treadmills after t...