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 have never been easier to build and operate.
Tabnine Integrates AI Agents Into the Entire Software Development Life Cycle

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day event lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Tabnine’s comprehensive vision of AI for the software development life cycle.
Platform9 Delivers On-Premises Private Cloud as a Service

Alastair Cooke, Event Lead at Tech Field Day, shares his insights on the Platform9 launch of Private Cloud Director for on-premises private cloud as a service and migration from an existing virtualization platform.
New WEKA Solutions like WEKApod Data Platform Appliance lets Storage Keep up with Today’s AI Workloads – Six Five On the Road

Shimon Ben David, CTO at WEKA, joins Dave Nicholson and Alastair Cooke to share his insights on how WEKA’s innovative solutions, particularly the WEKApod Data Platform Appliance, are revolutionizing storage for AI workloads, setting a new benchmark for performance and efficiency.
Morpheus Unified Management for Multi-Cloud Platform Choice

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Morpheus Data’s Cloud Field Day 20 presentation. Morpheus enables multi-cloud platform choice for large enterprises.
Juniper 800GB Ethernet for AI Training

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares insights from the Juniper Networks presentation at Cloud Field Day 20 on 800GB Ethernet for AI training and the Juniper AI Innovation Lab.
Row-Scale On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure from Oxide Computer

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Oxide Computer’s multi-rack-scale on-premises cloud infrastructure and the innovative approach Oxide brings to tightly integrated server infrastructure hardware design.
Enterprise Scale AI with Private Data – Agents – Six Five On the Road

Luke Norris, CEO at Kamiwaza.ai, joins hosts Alastair Cooke & Lisa Martin to share insights on leveraging AI with private data to power the 5th Industrial Revolution. An insightful conversation on the future of enterprise AI.
Google Delivers Titanium Hardware Offload for Efficient Performance

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the Titanium architecture and hardware offload for efficient performance in the Google Cloud. Customers get more CPU for their code and less overhead from the infrastructure.
Intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SREs | DevOps Dialogues: Insights & Innovations

In a recent exchange, Paul Nashawaty discussed with Alastair Cooke the dynamics and Intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SREs.
Migrating 800 VMs to Nutanix Was No Problem, Business as Usual

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor and Paul Nashawaty, Practice Leader and Lead Principal Analyst at The Futurum Group, share their insights on what size of client might successfully migrate from a vSphere cluster to a Nutanix AHV cluster without experiencing significant business disruption.
Large Language Model AI Needs to Be Invisible and Cheaper

Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the changes needed for organizations to overcome the complexity and cost of LLMs and finally get tremendous business value from them.
