Guy Currier

Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces

Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.

Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX.

Recent Insights, News & Research

eTrigue’s New “Hyper-Personalization” Shows a New Level of AI in Channel Marketing—and the Enterprise Software Experience
June 16, 2026

eTrigue’s New “Hyper-Personalization” Shows a New Level of AI in Channel Marketing—and the Enterprise Software Experience

Futurum Research at The Futurum Group examines how eTrigue’s Insights Messaging uses generative AI to deliver “hyper-contextualized” one-to-one partner marketing at scale, signaling a broader shift in enterprise applications from...
Canonical’s Ubuntu TPU Optimization Shows the Coming Structural Shift in Enterprise AI Infrastructure
June 11, 2026

Canonical’s Ubuntu TPU Optimization Shows the Coming Structural Shift in Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Guy Currier at Futurum examines Canonical’s launch of optimized Ubuntu images for Google Cloud TPU virtual machines and its strategic implications for enterprise AI infrastructure economics, accelerator diversification beyond GPUs,...
Qlik’s CEO Transition and the Coming AI-Driven Shakeup in How Companies Build and Pay for Software
May 6, 2026

Qlik’s CEO Transition and the Coming AI-Driven Shakeup in How Companies Build and Pay for Software

Guy Currier, Chief Analyst, Visible Impact at Futurum, Qlik's leadership transition reflects how agentic AI is disrupting software pricing, token economics, and competition in data analytics and business intelligence....
Agentic AI
April 30, 2026

Will Workday’s Agentic Power-Up with External Service Orchestration Build More Pan-Enterprise Credibility?

Guy Currier, Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at Futurum: Workday's agentic AI strategy, powered by Sana integration and guardrails-first design, positions it to challenge...
Less Creepy App Dev? SOUTHWORKS Shows How a Vendor Can Reduce Slippage and Increase Scope Control
December 10, 2024

Less Creepy App Dev? SOUTHWORKS Shows How a Vendor Can Reduce Slippage and Increase Scope Control

Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the model provided by app dev services firm SOUTHWORKS for leveraging the expertise and reliable output...
Giving Shape to Nutanix’s “Run Anywhere” Customer Strategy
May 29, 2024

Giving Shape to Nutanix’s Run Anywhere Customer Strategy

The Futurum Group’s Guy Currier and Paul Nashawaty share their insights on the recent announcements on Nutanix’s Run Anywhere customer strategy from Nutanix .NEXT 2024....

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