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Alastair Cooke

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Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.

Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.

Recent Insights, News & Research

Hybrid Multi-Cloud GitOps Controls Your Continuous Delivery and Promotion
December 11, 2025

Hybrid Multi-Cloud GitOps Controls Your Continuous Delivery and Promotion

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the updated Akuity platform for continuous delivery and promotion. Akuity provides unified visibility and control for hybrid...
New to You, Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD Range for Hardcore AI Workloads
June 20, 2025

New to You, Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD Range for Hardcore AI Workloads

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how the Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD range can help organizations accommodate on-premises AI data challenges in a...
Phison aiDAPTIV+ is Cost-Effective With Large Models to Enable Generative AI
May 30, 2025

Phison aiDAPTIV+ is Cost-Effective With Large Models to Enable Generative AI

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the Phison aiDAPTIV+ platform presented at AI Infrastructure Field Day. Phison enables the use of unmodified generative...
Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper
May 27, 2025

Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the Juniper Networks presentation at AI Infrastructure Field Day. Intent-based design and deployment using Apstra delivers 800...
Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud
May 19, 2025

Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud

Futurum’s Alastair Cooke examines building customized infrastructure for generative AI applications using the Google Cloud Platform, which offers numerous options ranging from managed services to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)....
Lightbend Becomes Akka and Akka V3 Enables Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications
December 19, 2024

Lightbend Becomes Akka and Akka V3 Enables Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on releasing version 3 of the Akka framework and rebranding Lightbend as Akka. Resilient geo-distributed applications...

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