Futuriom Blog Zoom Flexes Muscle with $15 Billion Buy of Five9 Zoom's announced $15-billion deal to purchase Five9 Inc. gives it a path to diversify its product line and upsell conferencing products. . By: R. Scott Raynovich July 19, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis Inside Ericsson's $8.3-Billion Deal with Verizon for 5G Ericsson has made a five-year, $8.3-billion deal with Verizon to supply the carrier's 5G network with cloud-native RAN solutions. By: Mary Jander July 19, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis TriggerMesh Gets Funding from Cisco TriggerMesh has been funded an additional $5 million from Cisco Investments and previous investors to help boost its cloud-native, multi-cloud/on-prem integration platform. By: Mary Jander July 13, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis Netskope Grabs $300 Million, Hits $7.5 Billion Valuation Netskope has completed a $300 million investment round of funding, bringing its valuation to $7.5 billion, a vote of confidence in the vendor's multifunction security approach. By: Mary Jander July 12, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis Couchbase Scopes Out IPO Cloud-native database vendor Couchbase has filed its S-1 registration statement, the first step to IPO. But it faces some challenges. By: Mary Jander July 12, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis Pentagon Scraps JEDI Plan for Multi-Cloud Alternative The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled the JEDI contract originally awarded to Microsoft and replaced it with a proposal that includes multiple vendors and clouds. By: Mary Jander July 06, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis AT&T Picks Azure for 5G Cloud AT&T will run its 5G core on Azure, and it's selling its Network Cloud to Microsoft as an addition to Azure for Operators. By: Mary Jander July 01, 2021 Read More »
Tech Primers What Is Needed for SASE? SASE and Secure Edge have emerged from SD-WAN to drive digital transformation at the edge.. By: R. Scott Raynovich June 30, 2021 Read More »
News/Analysis IBM Extends 5G Products and Partnerships IBM has released an automation and orchestration platform for 5G carrier rollouts and extended its relationships with Verizon and Telefonica. By: Mary Jander June 30, 2021 Read More »
Futuriom Blog Defining (and Redefining) Zero Trust Microsoft and other vendors rightly declare that Zero Trust security is not a specific product or service, but a philosophy about how to work in a digital world. By: Andrew Braunberg June 30, 2021 Read More »