Author: Brad Shimmin

How Big A Role Will Commvault Play In Securing Agentic AI?
April 17, 2026

How Big A Role Will Commvault Play In Securing Agentic AI?

Fernando Montenegro and Brad Shimmin, VPs at Futurum, analyze Commvault's new offerings—Data Activate, AI Protect, and AI Studio—and their strategic role in securing enterprise agentic AI ecosystems against rising competition....
Can Starburst's AIDA Crack the Enterprise AI Data Access Problem?
April 17, 2026

Can Starburst’s AIDA Crack the Enterprise AI Data Access Problem?

Starburst's AIDA represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises approach AI data access. Rather than centralizing data, agentic AI systems reason across distributed sources, addressing accuracy concerns and accelerating AI...
ClickHouse Builds a CLI to Make its Databases Agent-Native
April 15, 2026

ClickHouse Builds a CLI to Make its Databases Agent-Native

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores Cloudera’s latest hybrid data platform updates. He analyzes how the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Fabric and Iceberg REST Catalog are designed to reduce...
Neo4j's Context Gap
April 14, 2026

Does Neo4j’s Context Gap Thesis Expose Enterprise AI’s Biggest Blind Spot?

Neo4j's latest analysis exposes a critical flaw in enterprise AI: the neglect of structural, relational context. Discover why graph databases are positioned as the missing memory layer for agentic AI...
Wasabi Acquires Lyve Cloud. Does This Strengthen Its Storage Position?
April 14, 2026

Wasabi Acquires Lyve Cloud. Does This Strengthen Its Storage Position?

Alex Smith and Brad Shimmin from Futurum examine the Wasabi Lyve Cloud acquisition and whether the deal meaningfully shifts cloud storage dynamics or primarily consolidates customers, capacity, and ecosystem integrations....
Oracle Redefines Mission-Critical Tiers as AI Workloads Demand Always-On Data
April 14, 2026

Oracle Redefines Mission-Critical Tiers as AI Workloads Demand Always-On Data

Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, explores Oracle's new Diamond-Grade resilience and how sub-millisecond latency and post-quantum security are redefining mission-critical data for the age of agentic AI....
Can AI Save the Mainframe BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI
April 10, 2026

Can AI Save the Mainframe? BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley, Analysts at Futurum, examine BMC Software’s April 2026 AI expansion. The report details how uniting AMI with Control-M's new Agent Gateway addresses the mainframe demographic...
Enterprise Data Analytics Survey Finds 59% Investing in Semantic Layers as Critical AI Infrastructure
March 30, 2026

Enterprise Data Analytics Survey Finds 59% Investing in Semantic Layers as Critical AI Infrastructure

Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals that nearly 59% of organizations are directing incremental budget toward semantic layers as accuracy concerns dominate AI trust....
Snowflake's SnowWork Targets the Gap Between Data Insight and Business Action
March 25, 2026

Snowflake’s SnowWork Targets the Gap Between Data Insight and Business Action

Brad Shimmin and Nick Patience explore Snowflake’s Project SnowWork and how the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane turns the AI Data Cloud into a "system of action" for autonomous workflows across...
Oracle Positions AI Database 26ai to Lead $1.2 Trillion Market by Bridging the Agentic Reasoning Gap
March 25, 2026

Oracle Positions AI Database 26ai to Lead $1.2 Trillion Market by Bridging the Agentic Reasoning Gap

Brad Shimmin and Keith Kirkpatrick of Futurum explore Oracle's pivot to agentic plumbing. Oracle is embedding autonomous reasoning directly into Oracle AI Database 26ai to solve the enterprise data latency...
Grounding the Agentic Mandate As the Semantic Layer Market Eyes 19% Growth, Microsoft Fabric IQ Targets Leaders Prioritizing AI Investment
March 20, 2026

Grounding the Agentic Mandate: As the Semantic Layer Market Eyes 19% Growth, Microsoft Fabric IQ Targets Leaders Prioritizing AI Investment

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights from FabCon and SQLCon 2026 on how Microsoft is leveraging the new Database Hub and Fabric IQ to unify transactional...
Prioritizing Intent Over Movement Semantic Layer Market to Hit 19% Growth Compared to 12% for Manual Engineering
March 16, 2026

Prioritizing Intent Over Movement: Semantic Layer Market to Hit 19% Growth Compared to 12% for Manual Engineering

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores the release of the OSI v0.1 specification and why a standardized semantic layer is the non-negotiable foundation for driving 300% more...

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