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Author: Alastair Cooke

CoreWeave ARENA is AI Production Readiness Redefined
February 17, 2026

CoreWeave ARENA is AI Production Readiness Redefined

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on the announcement of CoreWeave ARENA, a tool for customers to identify costs and operational processes for...
Enterprises Should Finally Stop Paying SSD Prices for Cold Data
February 16, 2026

Enterprises Should Finally Stop Paying SSD Prices for Cold Data

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on how CTERA enables customers to use cloud object storage combined with small amounts of SSD to...
IBM’s New FlashSystem Might Be the Blueprint for AI-Driven Storage Resilience
February 16, 2026

IBM’s New FlashSystem Might Be the Blueprint for AI-Driven Storage Resilience

Alastair Cooke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on IBM’s latest FlashSystem release with Agentic AI features to minimize manual operations and simplify compliance....
Arm at the Center of the AI & Data Center Revolution
February 10, 2026

Arm at the Center of the AI & Data Center Revolution

In Arm at the Center of the AI & Data Center Revolution, Futurum Research examines how Arm’s scalable IP, partner ecosystem, and software enablement are positioning it as a unifying...
Nutanix and Pure Storage Join Forces Amid Enterprise Virtualization Upheaval
January 28, 2026

Nutanix and Pure Storage Join Forces Amid Enterprise Virtualization Upheaval

Alastair Cooke, CTO Adviser at Futurum, shares his insights on the partnership between Pure Storage and Nutanix to integrate Pure’s Evergreen Storage and FlashArray into Nutanix’s Cloud-like AHV and Prism....
Can Dell PowerScale’s Flexible Architecture Outpace Flash Costs in the AI Era
January 28, 2026

Can Dell PowerScale’s Flexible Architecture Outpace Flash Costs in the AI Era?

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at Futurum, shares his insights on Dell’s view of Hybrid storage to mitigate rising SSD costs. All-flash arrays have dominated; hybrid HDD and SSD options are...
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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