Author: Mitch Ashley

AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point
August 20, 2026

AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how AI implementation is the new account control point. Read more on how hyperscalers are reorganizing to capture distributed...
A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap Security Summer Camp 2026
August 13, 2026

A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap: Security Summer Camp 2026

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley of Futurum unpack Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: an agentic-AI wave on every booth, a record funding surge, a widening capability gap, and what...
Anthropic's 80% Prompt Cut Shows AI Creating Its Own Technical Debt
August 12, 2026

Anthropic’s 80% Prompt Cut Shows AI Creating Its Own Technical Debt

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on Anthropic's 80% prompt cut and how frontier model releases write new technical debt into customer...
From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI
August 10, 2026

From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI

In our latest thought leadership report, From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for GenAI, completed in partnership with Red Hat, Futurum Research covers why enterprise GenAI initiatives stall before reaching...
August 5, 2026

The Orchestrator: Who’s Conducting Your Enterprise?

In our latest thought leadership report, The Orchestrator: Who’s Conducting Your Enterprise?, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines why AI capability has outpaced enterprise coordination – and why...
Palantir Q2 FY 2026 Earnings Surge on US Commercial AI Demand
August 5, 2026

Palantir Q2 FY 2026 Earnings Surge on US Commercial AI Demand

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews Palantir's Q2 FY 2026 earnings, 149% US commercial growth, the AI...
Atlassian Fuses the Agent Work Surface, Workflow, and Control Plane Into Jira
July 29, 2026

Atlassian Fuses the Agent Work Surface, Workflow, and Control Plane Into Jira

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Atlassian fused the agent work surface, workflow, and control plane into Jira, with Teamwork Graph as the...
NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense
July 28, 2026

NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense

Futurum’s Nick Patience, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley unpack NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance and why the labs missing from it may matter more than the 35 that joined....
So This Is How AIs Attack- Observations From the OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident
July 24, 2026

So This Is How AIs Attack: Observations From the OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs at Futurum, read the OpenAI and Hugging Face agentic incident as a live test of enterprise readiness to detect and contain AI agents that...
The AI Stack- How Vendors Are Composing AI Strategy
July 17, 2026

The AI Stack: How Vendors Are Composing AI Strategy

Futurum's Mitch Ashley shares insights on the durable eight-layer AI stack and six emerging archetypes that help vendors and decision-makers interpret AI strategy commitments in a rapidly evolving market....
Selling Agent Provenance to the CIO: Entire Changes Who Signs
July 14, 2026

Selling Agent Provenance to the CIO: Entire Changes Who Signs

Futurum stakes a position on Entire's distributed Git launch: agent provenance is the control point, the mirror network is the wedge, and the decision moves to the CIO. The analysis...
Software Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the Guardrails
July 13, 2026

Software Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the Guardrails

Futurum's 2H 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering research sizes the market at $226 billion by 2030 and finds AI now runs the majority of the software lifecycle, while 75% of organizations...

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