Author: Mitch Ashley

Enterprise Procurement
April 15, 2026

GitHub Copilot’s Compliance Breakthrough: Enterprise Procurement Barriers Fall, Not Just Features Added

GitHub Copilot's US/EU data residency and FedRAMP Moderate compliance remove enterprise barriers, enabling adoption across government agencies and regulated industries while shifting focus to compliance infrastructure....
Cisco To Acquire Galileo: AI Agent Observability Can't Run at Human Speed
April 13, 2026

Cisco To Acquire Galileo: AI Agent Observability Can’t Run at Human Speed

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead for Observability at Futurum, examines Cisco's Galileo acquisition and what real-time AI agent observability means for enterprises governing agents in production....
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...
Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold
April 8, 2026

Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold

Analysts Mitch Ashley and Fernando Montenegro explore Anthropic's Project Glasswing. As AI vulnerability detection crosses a new threshold, the economics and speed of offensive and defensive cybersecurity are forever changed....
MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails
April 7, 2026

MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights from the inaugural MCP Dev Summit North America on MCP's institutional momentum, scope, and discipline, and the open standards stack forming...
Futurum Agent Control Plane Framework: A Reference Model for Production AI Agents
April 3, 2026

Futurum Agent Control Plane Framework: A Reference Model for Production AI Agents

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the Agent Control Plane Framework, defining the five-layer governance architecture enterprises need to deploy AI agents safely at production scale....
RSAC 2026: The AI 'Tragedy of the Commons' and the Future of Agentic Security
April 3, 2026

RSAC 2026: The AI ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and the Future of Agentic Security

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, convey their observations from the RSAC 2026 Conference, with a focus on AI and agentic security....
Futurum Research Finds Enterprise Observability Spend Surging in $1M-Plus
March 31, 2026

Futurum Research Finds Enterprise Observability Spend Surging in $1M-Plus

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares new survey data showing that enterprise observability budgets of $1M-plus have doubled year over year, signaling the observability-native shift is moving from...
OpenShell Redraws the Agent Control Plane — Open Standard or Product Launch
March 18, 2026

OpenShell Redraws the Agent Control Plane — Open Standard or Product Launch?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines NVIDIA OpenShell's out-of-process enforcement model — and why it sets a standard every enterprise agent runtime must now meet....
NVIDIA Agent Toolkit
March 16, 2026

At GTC 2026, NVIDIA Stakes Its Claim on Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, analysts at Futurum, examine NVIDIA's Agent Toolkit announcements at GTC 2026, covering NemoClaw, AI-Q, the Nemotron Coalition, and what they mean for enterprise agentic AI...
How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers
March 13, 2026

How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers

In this market brief by Futurum Research, in partnership with Google Cloud, we explore how Google’s approach to AI development aims to accelerate innovation, reduce friction for developers, and help...
OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises
March 11, 2026

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo and what it signals about the security and governance requirements blocking AI agents from enterprise production....

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