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Author: Brad Shimmin

CData Trades in Vibe-Coding for Industrial-Grade Enterprise AI Infrastructure
March 10, 2026
 

CData Trades in Vibe-Coding for Industrial-Grade Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Brad Shimmin, Vice President at Futurum, analyzes CData’s March 9th pivot toward enterprise AI infrastructure. CData is tackling the AI "accuracy gap" with a validated 98.5% query success rate and...
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Can a Database Truly Be a Genius – IBM’s Shift Toward Agentic Autonomy
March 10, 2026

Can a Database Truly Be a Genius? – IBM’s Shift Toward Agentic Autonomy

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores IBM’s shift toward agentic autonomy. He analyzes how the new Db2 Genius Hub uses intent-driven reasoning to eliminate the "maintenance tax"...
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Teradata Trades Duct Tape for Unified Intelligence With Its Latest Release
March 10, 2026
 

Teradata Trades Duct Tape for Unified Intelligence With Its Latest Release

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes Teradata’s launch of the Agentic Enterprise Vector Store. This multi-modal pivot aims to challenge the standalone vector database by bringing AI...
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Snowflake Q4 FY 2026 Results Highlight AI-Led Consumption and Platform Expansion
March 2, 2026
 

Snowflake Q4 FY 2026 Results Highlight AI-Led Consumption and Platform Expansion

Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead at Futurum analyzes Snowflake’s Q4 FY 2026 earnings, highlighting AI-driven consumption growth, expanding platform scope, and guidance shaping expectations for FY 2027....
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Can Salesforce’s Data 360 Pricing Overhaul Deliver Predictable ROI?
March 2, 2026
 

Can Salesforce’s Data 360 Pricing Overhaul Deliver Predictable ROI?

Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin of Futurum cover Salesforce’s pricing and packaging changes for Data 360, and discuss the implications for the company and the overall data platform market....
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Collapsing the Stack VAST Data’s Bid to Own the AI Data Loop
February 27, 2026
 

Collapsing the Stack: VAST Data’s Bid to Own the AI Data Loop

Brad Shimmin, Vice President at Futurum, analyzes the VAST Data platform updates from VAST Forward, detailing how the new Policy Engine, Tuning Engine, and Polaris architectures are simplifying the AI...
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The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise
February 27, 2026

The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise

In The Open Lakehouse Imperative: Delivering AI Value Without Compromise, a report commissioned by Oracle, Futurum Research explains why many lakehouse stacks still force tradeoffs—and what a truly open, multi-cloud,...
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The Storage Era is Dead; Long Live Everpure!
February 25, 2026
 

Storage Evolved: Everpure Takes on Data Challenges for an AI World

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Pure Storage’s rebrand to Everpure as well as its supportive acquisition of 1touch.io, exploring why dropping "Storage" is...
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Semantic Layer Set to Become the Next Piece of Critical Infrastructure
February 25, 2026

Semantic Layer Set to Become the Next Piece of Critical Infrastructure

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, details why the Semantic Layer is projected to double its growth to 30% by 2031, becoming the critical "dictionary" that prevents Agentic...
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Quest Builds an Automated Factory to Manufacture Enterprise Trust in Data
February 24, 2026

Quest Builds an Automated Factory to Manufacture Enterprise Trust in Data

Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, and Infrastructure at Futurum, shares his insights on Quest Software’s new Trusted Data Management Platform. This report explores how Quest’s...
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ServiceNow Buys Pyramid Does this Spell the End of the BI Dashboard
February 13, 2026
 

ServiceNow Buys Pyramid: Does this Spell the End of the BI Dashboard?

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, along with Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows, analyze ServiceNow’s acquisition of Pyramid Analytics. They explore...
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OpenAI Frontier Close the Enterprise AI Opportunity Gap—or Widen It
February 9, 2026
 

OpenAI Frontier: Close the Enterprise AI Opportunity Gap—or Widen It?

Futurum Research Analysts Mitch Ashley, Keith Kirkpatrick, Fernando Montenegro, Nick Patience, and Brad Shimmin examine OpenAI Frontier and whether enterprise AI agents can finally move from pilots to production. The...
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