Author: Brad Shimmin

Can Zoho’s Nathu La Server Redefine Enterprise Stack Sovereignty and TCO for AI
June 12, 2026

Can Zoho’s Nathu La Server Redefine Enterprise Stack Sovereignty and TCO for AI?

The Futurum Group’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on Zoho’s Nathu La server, and discuss the impact on the SaaS market, end customers, and Zoho’s competitors....
From Storage to Action: Why Autonomous AI Is Forcing a Database Revolution
June 12, 2026

From Storage to Action: Why Autonomous AI Is Forcing a Database Revolution

Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on how the shift to autonomous, read-write AI agents is forcing legacy databases to evolve. Discover why strong consistency, multi-tiered memory, and speculative...
From Storage to Action- Why Autonomous AI is Forcing a Database Revolution
June 11, 2026

From Storage to Action: Why Autonomous AI is Forcing a Database Revolution

Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on how the shift to autonomous, read-write AI agents is forcing legacy databases to evolve. Discover why strong consistency, multi-tiered memory, and speculative...
Data Gravity in the Age of AI Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads
June 11, 2026

Data Gravity in the Age of AI: Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads

In our latest report, Data Gravity in the Age of AI: Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research explores why fragmented data architectures...
Microsoft Build 2026 - The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface
June 4, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 – The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface

Futurum Analysts Ashley, Kirkpatrick, Patience, and Shimmin analyze Microsoft Build 2026 across models, agents, data intelligence, governance, and silicon as Microsoft positions itself as the platform, the integration plane, and...
Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
41.3% of Enterprises Default to Cloud-Provider Catalogs as AI Infrastructure Choices Splinter Across Four Layers
June 3, 2026

41.3% of Enterprises Default to Cloud-Provider Catalogs as AI Infrastructure Choices Splinter Across Four Layers

Futurum's Brad Shimmin, VP of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, notes AI infrastructure fragmented in 1H 2026. Cloud catalogs (41.3%), basic RAG (59.4%), and an even vector DB split reveal...
Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap
June 2, 2026

Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap

Brad Shimmin breaks down the release of DataHub Cloud v1 and explores how its automated context platform cures AI analytics hallucinations by feeding agents pre-validated, expert-approved business logic....
Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness
June 2, 2026

Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Starburst's new Enterprise Intelligence Platform, exploring how federated data access and Managed Icehouse are solving the unpredictable cloud...
Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness
May 26, 2026

Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on Alteryx's latest platform updates, exploring how injecting deterministic business logic into Alteryx ONE may solve the enterprise AI governance crisis and empower...
Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem
May 22, 2026

Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem

Brad Shimmin at Futurum unpacks the data announcements from Google I/O 2026, exploring how the Antigravity platform and open protocols drive an evolution away from monolithic data architectures and toward...

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