How Open Source Facilitates Collaboration, Innovation, Speeds up the Development of New Tech and Helps Mitigate Risk

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.