Author: Mitch Ashley

TSMC Q3 FY 2026 Earnings Beat and Raise on AI and HPC Demand
October 20, 2026

TSMC Q3 FY 2026 Earnings Beat and Raise on AI and HPC Demand

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews TSMC's latest earnings, where AI and HPC demand drove a beat...
Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict
October 14, 2026

Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Research share insights on Harness's LLM security scanning research and why any AI scan should show verdict stability before it can block...
The AI Last Mile Problem
October 14, 2026

The AI Last Mile Problem

In our latest thought leadership brief, The AI Last Mile Problem, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprise AI stalls between pilot and production and lays out...
With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs
October 9, 2026

With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Group share their analyst insights on Kong Volcano: what it gives developers building AI agents and whether Kong can host agents and...
env zero EZ Control Telling a Fix From a Mistake
October 6, 2026

env zero EZ Control: Telling a Fix From a Mistake

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Tech Buyers, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, share insights on env zero EZ Control and...
Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard
October 6, 2026

Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard?

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum Research share insights on The DevOps Standard, why its AI agent governance is a well-built retrofit, and what enterprise leaders and platform vendors...
NETSCOUT nGenius Copilot Caps a Three-Release Data-First Strategy
October 6, 2026

NETSCOUT nGenius Copilot Caps a Three-Release Data-First Strategy

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on NETSCOUT nGenius Copilot and why its September AI sequence puts...
Docker Reruns the Container Playbook, This Time for Cloud Sandbox Kit
October 1, 2026

Docker Reruns the Container Playbook, This Time for Cloud Sandbox Kit

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, on why Docker's Kit spec wins the agent control plane only if Kubernetes and...
OpenAI Moves Up the Stack and Competes With the Platforms It Powers
October 1, 2026

OpenAI Moves Up the Stack and Competes With the Platforms It Powers

Futurum Research’s Mitch Ashley, Nick Patience, and Vikram Rothnam examine how OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to move up the stack, claiming the work surface, the agent runtime, and the pricing...
NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp's Two-Market AI Strategy
September 30, 2026

NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp’s Two-Market AI Strategy

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, share their insights on NetApp Novus, the planned PEAK:AIO acquisition, and how NetApp is targeting AI factories and the...
When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator
September 30, 2026

When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator

In our latest Thought Leadership Brief, When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research examines why industry-specific AI requires industry-specific data and how...
NVIDIA Wants Agent Safety Enforced in Silicon
September 29, 2026

NVIDIA Wants Agent Safety Enforced in Silicon

Fernando Montenegro, Mitch Ashley, and Brendan Burke from Futurum analyze NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, which pairs OpenShell runtime controls with Sentry DPU monitoring to contain AI agents outside their...

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