Alastair Cooke

Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

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

Mirantis and NVIDIA
April 21, 2026

Can Mirantis and NVIDIA Run:ai Automation Break the AI Factory Bottleneck?

Mirantis and NVIDIA's k0rdent AI and Run:ai integration solves GPU infrastructure deployment by delivering fully orchestrated, multi-tenant AI environments in minutes instead of weeks....
Federal Crypto
April 21, 2026

CIQ Bets on Compliance: Can Enterprise Linux Really Deliver Federal Crypto and Post-Quantum Readiness?

CIQ unveiled the first Enterprise Linux compliance platform for Federal Crypto validation and post-quantum readiness, addressing critical security gaps for regulated enterprises and government agencies facing quantum threats....
Unlock Faster AI
April 20, 2026

Can Eridu’s AI Networking Break the Data Center Bottleneck—or Just Move It?

With 78% of organizations boosting AI budgets, Eridu emerges from stealth with $200M+ in funding, claiming to break the data center bottleneck—but whether new architectures solve the problem or just...
Hammerspace's NVIDIA-Powered AI Data Platform Simplifies AI Infrastructure
April 14, 2026

Hammerspace’s NVIDIA-Powered AI Data Platform Simplifies AI Infrastructure

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Hammerspace's announcement of an AI data platform based on NVIDIA’s reference architecture and Hammerspace’s universal namespace....
Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?
April 8, 2026

Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Nasuni’s announcement of the Resilio Active Everywhere V6 and AI Active products, which enable file data...
Are Enterprises Ready for the Virtualization Reset, or Just Swapping Out One Complexity for Another
February 27, 2026

Are Enterprises Ready for the Virtualization Reset, or Just Swapping Out One Complexity for Another?

Futurum’s Alastair Cooke shares his insights on new HPE research that finds that only 5% of enterprises are fully prepared for the so-called Great Virtualization Reset, even as two-thirds plan...

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