Hyperscaler Marketplace Spending Surges as Enterprises Shift Software Budgets

Alex Smith, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from new research showing hyperscaler marketplace spending surpassing $21B in 2025 and accelerating toward $42B by 2029 as enterprises shift software procurement to hyperscaler-run marketplaces.
AWS re:Invent 2025: Wrestling Back AI Leadership

Futurum analysts share their insights on how AWS re:Invent 2025 redefines the cloud giant as an AI manufacturer. We analyze Nova models, Trainium silicon, and AI Factories as AWS moves to own the full enterprise AI stack.
Are Partners Ready to Engineer the Next Wave of AI Data Center Disruption? – Report Summary

Alex Smith, Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on how channel partners must evolve beyond product resale to master complex engineering skills for the expanding AI data center market, including neoclouds and sovereign projects.
Cisco Partner Summit 2025: Does Cisco have the Right End-to-End AI Story?

Alex Smith, Vice President at Futurum, shares his insights on Cisco’s bold strategy to own the AI-era infrastructure with the launch of Unified Edge and a Splunk-powered security fabric.
NetApp Insight 2025: Will AI Unlock New Growth for the Storage Market?

Alex Smith, Vice President at The Futurum Group, shares highlights from NetApp Insight 2025: The debut of AFX and AI Data Engine signals NetApp’s evolution into a software-driven leader for unified data, cyber resilience, and AI-powered business acceleration.
Futurum Tech Vanguards 2025 Q3: The Established Resurge

Alex Smith, VP at Futurum, explores how established tech companies are resurging, detailing big tech performance and shifts in cloud power balance fueled by AI infrastructure and strategic pivots.
Microsoft Reimagines Marketplace: A New Battleground for AI Agents?

Alex Smith, VP Ecosystems, Channels, and Marketplaces at Futurum, shares his insights on Microsoft’s strategic move to unify AppSource and Azure Marketplace, creating a powerful hub for AI agents and empowering channel partners in the evolving landscape of enterprise software distribution.
Is a Platform Ecosystem the Most Important Moat a Tech Company Can Have? – Report Summary

Alex Smith, Analyst at Futurum, shares insights on how platform ecosystems have become the most critical competitive advantage for tech vendors, creating a powerful flywheel effect that drives innovation, market reach, and a deep competitive moat.
Xerox Q2 FY 2025 Results Show Stability as IT Solutions Revenue Surges

Alex Smith, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, breaks down Xerox’s Q2 FY 2025 results, with IT Solutions revenue more than doubling YoY, Lexmark integration underway, and Print weakness offset by growing momentum in higher-margin services.
Enabling the Agentic AI Ecosystem Through watsonx

In our latest Market Brief, Enabling the Agentic AI Ecosystem Through watsonx, developed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores how agentic AI will redefine digital labor and enterprise workflows. The brief highlights IBM’s multi-layered approach—from data unification and orchestration to governance and real-world agent use cases—while offering guidance on building secure, scalable, and open architectures to support AI transformation.
AWS Summit New York City: AWS Forges the Enterprise-grade Pipeline for Agentic AI

Nick Patience and other analysts at Futurum share insights on AWS’s major AI agent announcements at their NYC Summit, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and expanded marketplace capabilities designed to move AI prototypes into production-ready applications.
Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy

In our latest market study, Scaling Smarter: How Google Cloud Marketplace Is Reshaping Partner Sales and GTM Strategy, Futurum uncovers the strategies and results from top-performing ISVs and channel partners leveraging the Google Cloud Marketplace as a transformational sales platform.
