Amazon Q2 FY 2025 Revenue Tops View; Profit Outlook Disappoints Street
Olivier Blanchard and Brad Shimmin at Futurum examine Amazon’s Q2 FY 2025 results, spotlighting strong retail and ad growth, mixed AI progress, and AWS margin compression amid intensifying cloud competition and infrastructure limitations.
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.
Pure Storage Pure//Accelerate: Looking to Upgrade Enterprise Data Management for the AI Era
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Pure Storage’s new Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC). The platform aims to unify enterprise data management and accelerate AI adoption with a new cloud-native architecture.
Oracle and AWS Deliver Multicloud Synergies With Oracle Database@AWS Rollout
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Oracle Database@AWS, which brings Oracle’s Exadata and Autonomous Database services directly to AWS data centers with AI and zero-ETL capabilities.
The Global Data Intelligence, Analytics, and Infrastructure Market to Surge Past $876B by 2029, Fueled by AI Innovation and Speculation
Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares new research showing the global data market surging to $876.6B by 2029. Discover how AI automation and the demand for AI-ready data fuel this massive expansion.
From Data Chaos to AI Clarity: Activating AI Through High-Quality Enterprise Data
In our latest Market Brief, From Data Chaos to AI Clarity: Activating AI Through High-Quality Enterprise Data, published in partnership with IBM, Futurum explores the core challenges enterprises face in deploying AI and presents a blueprint for overcoming them through smarter data strategies and tools.
Databricks Data+AI Summit: Databricks Takes on the World with a New Approach to Database Apps in the Age of AI
Brad Shimmin, VP at Futurum, shares insights on Databricks’ summit. With a new transactional database, free AI/BI, and unified data engineering, Databricks is aggressively moving to become the single platform for all enterprise data and AI.
Oracle Adds Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Storage on OCI
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how the availability of Hammerspace Tier 0 on Oracle Cloud Marketplace boosts OCI’s value for AI and HPC workloads by delivering low-latency, high-throughput data access.
Is Snowflake’s Crunchy Data Acquisition a Game-Changer in the AI Data Platform Race?
Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead, Data and Analytics at Futurum shares his/her insights on Snowflake’s acquisition of Crunchy. Discover how Snowflake’s $250 million Crunchy Data acquisition is set to reshape the AI data platform landscape and intensify the battle for enterprise cloud leadership.
Salesforce Signs Agreement to Acquire Data Management Vendor Informatica for $8 Billion
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on Salesforce’s planned acquisition of ERP vendor Informatica, and discuss the implications for the vendor and the SaaS market.
SAP Polishes and Reinforces Its AI Strategy at Sapphire
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on SAP’s annual Sapphire event, and discuss how the company’s revamped strategy helps to redefine the company in the age of generative AI, agents, and data.
Databricks Takes on Agentic AI Itself as a New User Persona With the Acquisition of Postgres Database Provider, Neon
Brad Shimmin, VP Practice Lead for Data Management and Analytics at Futurum, shares his insights on Databricks’ acquisition of Neon. This move positions Databricks to empower agentic AI with a robust, serverless PostgreSQL database, expanding its AI tooling market reach.
