Author: Alastair Cooke

SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops
October 16, 2026

SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, examines SolarWinds' launch of Avior, a goal-driven agentic platform that enables IT teams to define objectives, coordinate specialized agents, and...
LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials
October 15, 2026

LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, LocalStack's Azure emulation public beta lets developers and AI agents test code in isolated containers without exposing credentials or incurring...
HPE ProLiant Gen13: Security Features Matter More Than the Silicon
October 14, 2026

HPE ProLiant Gen13: Security Features Matter More Than the Silicon

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, HPE's ProLiant Gen13 servers prioritize advanced security—automatic drive encryption and post-quantum cryptography—over traditional processor specifications....
Enterprise Server Prices Rose for 71.3% of Buyers as Edge Heads for $55.2B
October 13, 2026

Enterprise Server Prices Rose for 71.3% of Buyers as Edge Heads for $55.2B

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, shares his insights on a hardware cost shock that has moved well beyond GPUs, and on why edge and colocation...
Solo.io Extends AI Agent Governance to the Desktop with agentdesktop
September 11, 2026

Solo.io Extends AI Agent Governance to the Desktop with agentdesktop

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Solo.io's agentdesktop launch and what it means for closing the AI agent governance gap at the...
Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ to Bring AI-Ready Data Governance
August 28, 2026

Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ to Bring AI-Ready Data Governance

Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on why Nasuni acquires DryvIQ and what the deal means for AI data governance and file platform consolidation....
MinIO Launches AIStor Memory for Agentic AI's Durable Context Layer
July 30, 2026

MinIO Launches AIStor Memory for Agentic AI’s Durable Context Layer

Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares insights on MinIO's AIStor Memory launch, which folds agent memory, workspace, and secrets into a single enterprise-controlled data type, and what it signals about...
SIOS LifeKeeper v10.1 Adds AIOps-Ready Automation for HA/DR Clusters
July 30, 2026

SIOS LifeKeeper v10.1 Adds AIOps-Ready Automation for HA/DR Clusters

Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares insights on SIOS Technology's LifeKeeper v10.1 release, which adds AIOps-ready automation, new Oracle and HULFT recovery kits, and deeper AWS/OCI integration for HA/DR clusters....
HPE’s GX5000 Delivers 40% Denser AI Supercomputing With AMD EPYC
July 29, 2026

HPE’s GX5000 Delivers 40% Denser AI Supercomputing With AMD EPYC

Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares insights on HPE's Cray Supercomputing GX5000, a 6th Gen AMD EPYC-powered system claiming 40% higher core density than rivals, and what it means for...
NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 Scales Object Storage for AI Factories
July 10, 2026

NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 Scales Object Storage for AI Factories

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on NetApp's StorageGRID 12.1 launch and what its federated namespace and throughput gains mean for AI-scale object...
Can U.S. Quantum Ambitions Survive Supply Chain and Workforce Reality Checks?
June 24, 2026

Can U.S. Quantum Ambitions Survive Supply Chain and Workforce Reality Checks?

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, examines how supply chain and workforce challenges could derail U.S. quantum ambitions despite aggressive federal directives and investment initiatives....
Can HPE's Unified Agentic IT Operations Cut Through AI Infrastructure Complexity?
June 24, 2026

Can HPE’s Unified Agentic IT Operations Cut Through AI Infrastructure Complexity?

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, HPE's new agentic AI capabilities across GreenLake and Morpheus Software promise unified orchestration for operational simplicity amid competition from Dell,...

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