Gemini Enterprise: Governing and Scaling the Agentic Enterprise
In our latest market report, Gemini Enterprise: Governing and Scaling the Agentic Enterprise, completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines the operational, governance, and lifecycle requirements for scaling agentic AI in the enterprise and explores how Gemini Enterprise helps organizations move from pilot value to production readiness.
VAST Data Valuation Triples. Can a Unified Platform Scale AI Globally?
Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes VAST Data valuation and its AI operating system strategy, questioning whether unified infrastructure can scale amid persistent market fragmentation.
Can Cloudera’s Stability Bet Win the Hybrid Data War?
Cloudera’s platform enhancements enable hybrid data environments with stability, elastic scaling, and Apache Iceberg interoperability, positioning the company to serve enterprises balancing cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Can Databricks Out-Iceberg the Competition?
Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Databricks’ public preview of Apache Iceberg v3, detailing how deletion vectors and the VARIANT data type bring performance parity and interoperability to the open lakehouse.
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?
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 initiatives.
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 the total cost of ownership and address the public cloud’s AI tax.
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 success.
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
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
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 cliff through governed, autonomous execution.
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.
